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JAN 20 ... Clear Channel hands over pink slips

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RADIO geek squad

The word on the streets is that January 20th is the day when Clear Channel Tampa plans on letting go people. Those who have been in the business for a long time are as easily targeted and the ones that just started.

Some people say having "facts" and that it's 20% layoff.

So sad. Good luck to all and happy Martin Luther Kings weekend.
 
If this is true and comes to fruition, it's a sad day.

Clear Channel, what class group! Slick! Using January 20th, Innauguration Day as a smokescreen because all eyes will be on Washington, DC so the mass firings will go unnoticed in the local and national news-cycles.

What's really tragic is that every other CC wannabee company like Cumulus, Citadel, Cox and CBS will follow suit, because "what's good for CC is good for broadcasting," or so the thinking goes. We're seeing the Wal-Mart-izing of broadcasting. Next, the survivors of this debacle will be told to wear blues vests with big buttons, "Watch For Falling Prices."
 
CBS follows Clear Channel? That's really funny. I'm not sure if your check reads CC, or you're sad enough to wish it did, but following tat radio group stopped with Randy Michaels and the initial "J", on the stationary. If anything, the industry is experiencing new challenges, so cuts are being made across the board. Hard, and unpopular cuts, likened to 5 being stranded on a snow-topped mountain and 4 being rescued, weeks later. Unpopulard and hard, but survival becomes paramount.

At any rate, when things like this sweep the industry, that's when Clear Channel goes further and cuts deeper, bloodier, and delves past fat into vital organs. They can do this since they don't struggle with compromising the product, like normal broadcasters.

Yeah, the business model is at CC...lol! That's funny.
 
WiLD Out said:
At any rate, when things like this sweep the industry, that's when Clear Channel goes further and cuts deeper, bloodier, and delves past fat into vital organs. They can do this since they don't struggle with compromising the product, like normal broadcasters.
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Like cutting the bulk of the airstaffs at Q105 and WSJT... no, wait, that wasn't Clear Channel!!!
 
A friend shared this story with me.

Rumors that Clear Channel Bain-Lee is going to give each employee a number conjures up images that are chilling.

This reminds me of when Jacor, now Clear Channel/Bain-lee bought a couple Gannett stations in Southern California and botched the layoffs beyond all comprehension.

Directive: An all-employee mandatory meeting -- 8am Monday morning. Be there.

Everyone whose last name starts A-J, line up on this wall, K-Z on that wall. Everyone was handed an envelope with their name typed on it. Some folks, mostly from the programming side, were lucky to receive a letter from Gannett stating that Jacor wishes to retain their services. Others, mostly from admin side, weren't as lucky. The room went silent when people started to realize that others in the room were being fired.

The kicker to this was: the station Comptroller received the fax from Gannett with the names of those who'll stay and who'll be released. His name was on the "to be fired" list. Nice.

Let's hope they get it right this time, thought I don't have many hopes..
 
WiLDOut said:
CBS follows Clear Channel? That's really funny. I'm not sure if your check reads CC, or you're sad enough to wish it did, but following tat radio group stopped with Randy Michaels and the initial "J", on the stationary.
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My check reads neither. I'm away from the business but close enough to those who are still in it; Guys who knew Randy when he was Ben Hummel-Chuck Stevens-Ben Franklin, a young radio geek from Hamburg, New York and SUNY College at Fredonia.

WiLDOut said:
At any rate, when things like this sweep the industry, that's when Clear Channel goes further and cuts deeper, bloodier, and delves past fat into vital organs. They can do this since they don't struggle with compromising the product, like normal broadcasters.
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Really?

WiLDOut said:
Yeah, the business model is at CC...lol! That's funny.
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Nuance is lost on you. We do however agree that Mariska Hargitay is a true star.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01162009/business/clear_channel_plans_revamp_150374.htm
 
ynot2k said:
WiLD Out said:
At any rate, when things like this sweep the industry, that's when Clear Channel goes further and cuts deeper, bloodier, and delves past fat into vital organs. They can do this since they don't struggle with compromising the product, like normal broadcasters.
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Like cutting the bulk of the airstaffs at Q105 and WSJT... no, wait, that wasn't Clear Channel!!!
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I don't think you understand that which you quote. Read about WKQI's new PD, add in the cuts that cometh Tuesday, from the almighty Clear Channel, and tell me how that compares to CBS Tampa changes?

The quote says "that's when Clear Channel goes further and cuts deeper, bloodier, and delves past fat into vital organs. They can do this since they don't struggle with compromising the product, like normal broadcasters.". In turn, CBS trimmed fat. Talented, capable, and rather like and loved fat, but yet instill - fat. I know fat very well, we go way back. However fat can't be justified, when consistant rating performance doens't justify the full on 6 member team assault. Or the full staff, in a dying format, who's median rank could realistically be achieved from outside the market.

Ultimately, the CC cuts are to survive (or appear as such), the CBS cuts, you refer to, were to conduct business in a smarter way. And contrarty to the antiquated way of thinking, in here, a lot of this stuff has to do with future growth, for CBS. Some of us are still here, although your focus seems to consistantly rest in the past. Go Cleveland Wheeler, Scott Shannon, and so on....

Signed by a proud CBS affiliate, who is smiling cuz Arbitron just issued a report that says he really shouldn't be included in this chat.
 
One person will not go

Dan Sileo will be on every Clear Channel station in Florida,
I predict he will be on every radio station in the world by 2010. I still want to know who's pictures does he have.
 
larnov said:
One person will not go

Dan Sileo will be on every Clear Channel station in Florida,
I predict he will be on every radio station in the world by 2010. I still want to know who's pictures does he have.
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Don't forget Nancy Alexander!
 
Blitz - how 'bout you quit being so cynical and sarcastic? The Tampa Bay audience doesn't connect w/sales reps, but it does connect with talented, familiar voices who can relate to local and common interests.
 
Maybe I'm wrong, but aren't the CC music stations using so much VT'ing and out of town shows like Steve Harvey, Ryan Seacrest, Kane, etc that a wholesale housecleaning like CBS just did isn't even necessary to cut staff.
 
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