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Lisa Garvey gone from WXRV

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Read a post on Faceboook that Lisa Garvey is no longer at WXRV. They also have taken the Brunch by the River radio show off the website. Any thoughts? More local radio shows gone.
 
Apparently WXRV the River has proven what we all know, that they don’t know radio. The station has kicked its ONLY talent—midday jock Lisa Garvey to the curb without so much as a…thanks for all you’ve done to us. Garvey was reportedly fired mid-shift! Professional? No…The River? Yes!

It is amazing this floundering radio station was able to hold on to a talent like this for as long as it did. Not only was Garvey the only reason to listen to the station (which sounds as if they draw straws each morning to determine whose iPod they’ll use today) during the week but she was the sole talent behind the soul of the station — Brunch by the River — a show once described by a friend in these satellite radio days as, “the only commercial radio I’ll listen too.” Do these radio know-nothings think they can slot another jock in and maintain “Brunch by the River”? Without Lisa's musical taste they'll more likely end up with “Cold Cereal by the Drainage Ditch.”

Sorry to see Lisa go…she is a talent who gave people a reason to listen to the station. She deserves more than to work for a place so marginalized by its inability to make money that it is run by the lowest form of radio leeches. They got away with underpaying for a talent that they didn't deserve for years. Maybe she can come up with something clever like the “Lisa FM” format and have a brunch-esque show without the River stench. I’d listen and listen hard. I can only imagine where the River is headed…downstream to the dumping station. Ninety-two who?
 
RadioAlum:
Take it easy on WXRV. The staff are generally talented, hard working people doing their best while having to deal with...how do I put this...an owner from hell. It's not their fault things are the way they are. They are micro-managed by an owner that has no absolutely no regard for the people who work for him. I did 2 tours there. He's a very smart guy, he just regards people as disposable. I wish Lisa the best.
 
The out of town consultant/PD has begun to swing his hammer. They'll be jockless in slower dayparts pretty soon.
Very unfortunate situation.


Lisa's Linkedin profile has an update :

"UPDATE: Surprising change of circumstances. Lost my job today and am in desperate need of a new one! Willing to move and able to work in radio, copywriting, pr and promotions or any related field. Please contact me with any leads you might have.

Thanks so much!
LG
"
 
I'm sure these new consultants have some reason that they're doing what they're doing, but it escapes me -- and I think the River sounds *awful* since Catie Wilbur got sacked. Admittedly as a 31 year old male I'm not exactly in the station's target demographic, but I find it so, so sleepy sounding. There's never been a lot of life to the imaging, but that was okay when there was some upbeat music. Now it's one mellow song after another. And so few of the songs are familiar (and I say that as someone who has grown up enjoying the core artists of the AAA format) -- I listened for about 40 minutes in the car this afternoon, and I heard one song that I could identify. I have to imagine that this approach is going to kill both the cume and TSL.

Needless to say, getting rid of Lisa Garvey was a huge mistake. I'm among those whose Sunday mornings won't be the same.

Also, regarding to the owner: I've heard rumors that he's an egomaniac. The fact that your station now runs a liner that declares, "our owner does an airshift every now and then...when he's not on tour with the band," makes me inclined to believe those rumors.
 
Are some of you still that naive to think that Lisa Garvey was picking her own music? You should all know better at this point that it is a Selector based music log that she has to follow. So her music taste has very little, if nothing, to do with the station.
 
WNTIRadio said:
Are some of you still that naive to think that Lisa Garvey was picking her own music? You should all know better at this point that it is a Selector based music log that she has to follow. So her music taste has very little, if nothing, to do with the station.
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Registered just to post this:

Methinks WNTIRadio never heard the Sunday morning Brunch by the River show (or I could be wrong: if Selector pulls up out-of-print Thelonious Monk tributes for other stations, there may be hope for radio yet!)
 
powerpop said:
WNTIRadio said:
Are some of you still that naive to think that Lisa Garvey was picking her own music? You should all know better at this point that it is a Selector based music log that she has to follow. So her music taste has very little, if nothing, to do with the station.
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Registered just to post this:

Methinks WNTIRadio never heard the Sunday morning Brunch by the River show (or I could be wrong: if Selector pulls up out-of-print Thelonious Monk tributes for other stations, there may be hope for radio yet!)
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Methinks you don't know how Selector works (or radio in general).
 
You can easily have different categories in Selector, and set up clocks for any type of music you want.

I'll bet that it was the case on Sunday morning, with maybe a couple of "dj pick" slots per hour. Just to keep track of song/artist separation this makes sense.
 
And to continue, Selector will schedule what YOU put into it. Whether that's 400 songs or 40,000 songs, it's all up to you how you categorize them, make separation rules. sound codes, tempo etc etc.

Have been using Selector, Music1, Powergold and MusicGen since 1995.
 
I listened on Sunday morning to about the 1st 20 minutes of "Brunch by the River". Not even close to what it was when Lisa Garvey hosted. The show worked with the music selections and the easy banter of Lisa. She will be missed and I will be listening to something else on Sunday mornings.
 
Globe today said Garvey was fired mid-shift. Former BOS jock Carolyn Morrell heard there today acc
to bostonradio (Mark S, Bostonradiowatch) tweet.
 
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