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K-Plex brings back "The Front Porch" but not with Justin

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MikeShannon914

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First, they dump Justin Frazell from traffic, now The Front Porch is back with someone else at the helm? What gives?
 
Cumulus is a joke when it comes to keeping decent talent, Justin is a pretty decent guy who got the short end of the stick in this situation and deserves better ...Even Rhyner/Corby went off on them (Cumulus) last friday durung their remote begging for someone to buy The Ticket, as the company has showed its cheap side with them as well.
 
MikeShannon914 said:
First, they dump Justin Frazell from traffic, now The Front Porch is back with someone else at the helm? What gives?
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From what I've heard, Justin was never dumped from traffic. He decided to not do afternoon traffic anymore. Thats when the current guy took over that slot.
If he was getting paid the same big amount to only roll in for 4 hours of morning show traffic, power to him. But you know that had to probably throw up a huge red flag at Cume-less. As far as the Front Porch is concearned, wasn't that show on the Wolf prior to Justin hosting it? I think Rick Lovett may have done it.

While we all now Cumulus is on the cheap, as seen from the remarks on the Ticket among other things, the new guy they brought in to host The Front Porch--
Ryan Fox is pretty good. We always talk about Dallas radio getting rid of talent, but if a station actually brings in talent, we should be careful what we criticize.
 
That is correct that Rick Lovett did host the show prior to Justin. The Wolf ran in 5 different host to that show in two years time before Justin took it over for the next seven. In that seven years, he won Texas Music DJ of the year four years in a row beginning in 2005.

All the same, by standards set by Cume-less, it was a budget move to go towards the cheap. Can anyone blame them though in this economy.

As far as Ryan Fox, I hear he is a great guy and has a lot of radio experience under his belt. This is sort of like Leno replacing Carson on a much smaller scale.
 
Down, Cumulus has been this way even in good times as well...
 
Slambang is correct. It could be a booming economy, and money spilling into the street cumeless will still be cheap. KLIF is a good example, poorly ran during a good economy,KPLEX Wolf will still be a brand not a station with these bidness degreed students from the 80's. It aint quality its what's in my commission and year end bonus?
Speaking of which we are two months away from the holiday season celebration at clear channel and their yearly layoffs.
 
TheTominator said:
From what I've heard, Justin was never dumped from traffic. He decided to not do afternoon traffic anymore.
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If the figure that the late John McCarty gave me about what Sucksquehanna/Cumulus was paying Justin is true, he'd have to be a complete blithering idiot to "decide to not do afternoon traffic anymore." It was easily THREE times what I make. Now I have nothing against Justin; we flew together several times over the last five years, but from what I heard over the last couple of years, he was either doing his reports in the studio, or from the front seat of his truck parked at his house--over a 2-way radio. You just don't throw away the easiest money one could EVER make, plus seven years of a music show that he was really into doing. I can assure you it had everything to do with his salary. There's morning drive talent here in DFW that's not even making THAT much.
 
MikeShannon914 said:
, he'd have to be a complete blithering idiot to "decide to not do afternoon traffic anymore." It was easily THREE times what I make.

. I can assure you it had everything to do with his salary.
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I've heard something similar. That he negotiated his way into only doing traffic in AM drive. And when KPLX's ratings (and therefore revenue) took a dive, he either quit, or was eased out to save money.


And this is one of the things that always bothers me about people's opinion on here. Many posters gripe and whine about how radio drives out talent, how companys don't want to pay for talent, etc.

But let's use Justin as an example. He's making 3 times Mike's salary to do traffic a couple of times an hour in ONE day shift.

When the stations ratings are no longer where they were (and KPLX is not where they were even 3-4 years ago) when is a station justified in getting rid of high paid talent?
 
Well Little 1 lets pose that question to CBS. CBS why do you keep"chip" & DALE martin on the payroll with a down hill avalanche in ratings?

Now on to Cumeless ,Cumeless why do you keep P&K on the air,when they are busy getting their kids to write on radio blogs, instead of trying to do something above the IQ level of a paramecium on the air? Now if either wants to do cuts before Christmas ,here are two to consider.
 
With Russ, it's probably contractual- then the question becomes how long does that contract have to run, and do they have anything that would get at least similar, if not better ratings to put in his place?

I'e been pointing out for a while that Russ's ratings are down, but the variable you have to introduce into teh equation is 'what do we replace it with'.

And as for P&K, I got bored way to easily with them when they were doing 4 hours of talk. And when i was in my car in the afternoon, I'dend up flipping from them to music stations anyway. Now they've saved me some button pushing. If they're talking about something that interests me, and go into a song i like, I'm likely to stick around...

But the one problem with intro'ing P&K into this discussion is that they don't really fit the model. They haven't been on the Bone long enough to have ratings, much less be overpaid in the ratings/salary ratio. If Scull and Miguel were any indication, Bennet is ruthless enough to give them a year and cut them loose if the ratings aren't where Cume-less expects them to be. If P&K's ratings suck a year from now, it'll be interesting to see if they get cut loose...
 
I am willing to say those mediocres at the Bone wont get cut. As for what to replace "Dale" with a few thousand ideas come to mind. One would be someone who has talent, an iq above lawn furniture,knows that prolonged dead air is a bad thing,doesnt claim Balch Springs as a birth right. There are som any others. I am sure if they actually exercised some common sense. when the trial comes ,he's convicted, then cut him. I am sure they could anyone anything to replace him with ,take a slight dip in the first book, then climb.
 
Justin didnt leave Cumulus. He was let go. It was a cost cutting measure. He was banking big $$$ and they have made big cuts across the board. The new guy doing traffic has done radio in other markets. He was a PD in another market and has numerous connections in the Texas music scene. I'm not sure why he didnt get the Front Porch Show. He sounds better on-air than the kid they picked. Guess the $$$ wasnt right.
 
F.D. Fritz said:
Justin didnt leave Cumulus. He was let go. It was a cost cutting measure. He was banking big $$$ and they have made big cuts across the board. The new guy doing traffic has done radio in other markets. He was a PD in another market and has numerous connections in the Texas music scene. I'm not sure why he didnt get the Front Porch Show. He sounds better on-air than the kid they picked. Guess the $$$ wasnt right.
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No money for doing the Front Porch. Guy in mornings is part time and turned down the full time gig. The PM drive host is the one with PD experience... Mark Phillips, he worked in Florida. Ryan is doing a good job with the Porch but you can't instantly have the relationships that Justin built with the Texas music artists over several years. Especially now with the vanilla playlist the Wolf is playing, they have no Texas music cred.
 
I listened to 995 this morning to remember the guys name, Russel P. I guess the money must not have been good for the full time job. He was a PD in Louisiana and also worked in Florida. Thought I had about that before. And as for the Wolf playlist....take a listen and you'll notice they are playing a lot more Texas music than they did before. But no where near what they once played.
 
F.D. Fritz said:
Justin didnt leave Cumulus. He was let go. It was a cost cutting measure. He was banking big $$$ and they have made big cuts across the board. The new guy doing traffic has done radio in other markets. He was a PD in another market and has numerous connections in the Texas music scene. I'm not sure why he didnt get the Front Porch Show. He sounds better on-air than the kid they picked. Guess the $$$ wasnt right.
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Huh? I thought the guy that's doing traffic was also hosting the Front Porch Show? I checked Ryan's website that links off the wolf website and it says he has been a P.D and a music director in Texas. http://www.ryanfoxradio.com/bio.html
Now that I think of it, I guess there's another guy doing morning traffic which could be who you're talking about.
But, whether the morning traffic dude 'sounds better on air' is hard to say. Can't really tell much from a person being on for 30 seconds talking about entertaining traffic tie ups. lol :D
 
Yeah, I was talking about the morning traffic guy. He pulls a shift on the weekends too. He is about the only guy on that station that sounds excited to be there.
 
From what I have been able to gather, I can 98% confirm that statement.
 
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