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Leslie Fram Stands Up For Terrestrial Radio

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

In an interview with the Daily News last week, the WRXP PD and morning show co-host said she was shocked that Bono joined the call for radio stations to pay performance royalties every time they play an artist's music.

"I've always been a proponent of artists' rights... But on this one, I have to take radio's side... Being in radio, I take this personally."

Yeah, you tell 'em, girl!

Full story:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...-04-23_wrxp_big_royalties_a_kings_ransom.html
 
DToTheJ said:
In an interview with the Daily News last week, the WRXP PD and morning show co-host said she was shocked that Bono joined the call for radio stations to pay performance royalties every time they play an artist's music.

"I've always been a proponent of artists' rights... But on this one, I have to take radio's side... Being in radio, I take this personally."

Yeah, you tell 'em, girl!

Full story:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...-04-23_wrxp_big_royalties_a_kings_ransom.html
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Sure Leslie of course...careful though don't step on the record labels...that's YOUR bread and butter if you know what I mean. :D

Jan Jeffries once told me years ago Leslie would play ANYTHING with a hole in it. ;D
 
Consider the source... and I don't mean Jan Jefferies.

Mr. "Listen And Learn From the Great One" was just recently telling us that Dan Mason was leaving CBS to join Cox.
 
buffalotom said:
Are you implying that Leslie is taking payola? And you're basing this on something Jan Jeffries said to you years ago?

I'm just stating what Jan told me years ago. Read whatever else you want to read into it.
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No, you said that record labels were her 'bread and butter, if you know what I mean.' Do you even know what you mean?

From wikipedia...

It is also a term used to refer to a primary ability or basic function, that which is central or fundamental to one's business, survival, or income.

The quote from Jan was then used to back up your remark. If you're going to back peddle go right ahead and take that back, but don't make it sound like I 'read into it.'

YOU FOOL!!!!!
 
buffalotom said:
No, you said that record labels were her 'bread and butter, if you know what I mean.' Do you even know what you mean?

From wikipedia...

It is also a term used to refer to a primary ability or basic function, that which is central or fundamental to one's business, survival, or income.

The quote from Jan was then used to back up your remark. If you're going to back peddle go right ahead and take that back, but don't make it sound like I 'read into it.'

YOU FOOL!!!!!
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Hey Buffo..i'm not back peddling one bit. Like I said the record labels has always been her bread and butter including helping her get BIG gigs.
 
BossJock1947 said:
Hey Buffo..i'm not back peddling one bit. Like I said the record labels has always been her bread and butter including helping her get BIG gigs.
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How does THAT work? It seems to me that being percieved as "too close to labels" works against getting gigs...
 
Gigs? Now you're adding stuff.

Nothing about getting big gigs in the first post. And that doesn't make much sense considering... she was in Atlanta forever and then here. If I'm not mistaken was she not with the same station or company in Atlanta?

You're still a fool!
 
buffalotom said:
If I'm not mistaken was she not with the same station or company in Atlanta?
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You are mistaken. Before she was fired in Atlanta (and the station was subsequently blown up), she worked for Cumulus (formerly Susquehanna). She currently works for Emmis.
 
I was up for a gig in Seattle a few years ago, and the PD Dave Douglas I believe it was told me he'd been getting calls from all over the country telling him I was a great talent and would be a great fit at his station, and since those calls came from label reps he took it to mean I was in their pocket, when in actuality I just treated them with respect, returned their phone calls, and treated them like I would want to be treated. I realized they had a job to do, and deserved the respect of a return call if I had the time to do so. And I believe they appreciated that. My only regret is that I wasn't in front of Douglas when he accused me of being in the labels pockets, so I could have shown him the "respect" he truly deserved. And my only experience with Leslie and her husband Lanny was a good one, both are consummate professionals and I hope she has success with her station in New York
 
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