Magic Interviewing?????

[doyouthinkicare]

For the life of me, i can not understand WHY!!!!!! OH THATS RIGHT, BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE THAT RUN MAGIC, DO NOT UNDERSTAND RADIO.

Magic has been interviewing for COO,(My friend was interviewed) it looks like Jeff Storey is headed back to pounding nails, Jeff Storey IS OUT. Its about time, P.C can't even pay the light bill, thats how bad Storey and gang SCREWED IT UP!!!!!

Also to be let go..... Chris Allen, and a few others Jeff brought in to screw things up, some in Dothan also, but most are out in P.C, stuff i can't post but it will all come out, why? stay tuned

Now lets see if Don gets it right, HIRE A RADIO GUY!!!! you idiot.

 

[Stewy]

As expected. Glad you care enough to share...please continue!

"Ask not for who the bell DONGs, it DONGs for thee"

;D

 

[omglol]

Magic Broadcasting is about as useless as tits on a boar hog.

 

[ricky]

McCoy has no say in the decision regarding a new COO. He is, to quote a phrase from an earlier post, as useless as a tit on a Boar hog in terms of Magic's decision making process. Durden, with advice from some real pros, will make this call. As an aside, I prefer tits on my Boar hogs and find them ornamental, if not useful.

 

[Tibbs4]

well, you know they had to do something exciting to end 2007. and everybody blamed jo valentime, but since he's
been out and it's only gotten more out of control. HOW is McCoy still in control ???

 

[zuzu petals]

You know Magic is good at one thing. Providing us with material to write(laugh) about.

 

[Stewy]

How true! They cause threads that get sent to time out and they provide a way to educate by way of showing what not to do. zuzu is correct in pointing out the value of Magic.

ricky speaks truth about decision making.

kmx and JRL have been strongly trying to tout "New and Improved" things to come. kmx is talking the the "Weekend kmx". The books no where close to being back so revenue shortfalls must be driving the ship to change course. Styles bought KMX to strengthen their revenue and personnel positions and then threw away the product and so Styles morphs into Magic. Magic can't get out of its own smoke and mirrors maze. Fear and jealousy have destroyed them and without a complete and absolute house cleaning there might be no hope, the darkness seems to have enveloped them completely. All there are in despair, it is easily heard in most every voice on every one of their stations in all markets. Hope seems gone and no good leadership has been allowed to step forward to this point...it was thrown away. I doubt that Durden is listening to real radio pros, after all he listened to someone (radio pro?) that got him to invest in this company, I think the pros to whom he listens are financial pros. That will not serve him if he plans to stay in radio only if he's positioning to bail out of radio.

As for the animal thing I'll just leave that to ricky and omglol. ;D

 

[Tibbs4]

I wonder if there would be any out there who would now not welcome Tim Dibacco and Kim Styles back to take over the
fiassco known as Magic? The Magician is only playing tricks on himself.

 

[Stewy]

I would not Tibbs, under any circumstances. Remember that Styles was the what spawned Magic. It was Styles that purchased KMX and turned it into kmx with the move, the beginning of old guard KMX dismissals, the changing of the KMX format etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc, ad nauseum. They could not compete with good broadcasters long term and there is still a station in Dothan that has an Alabama Broadcaster of the Year in house, WOOF-Agnes Simpson. Remember that KMX had two-Wallace Miller and Terry Duffie. Styles had ?. Styles destroyed the concept and team that had brought the honor to Dr. Miller and Mr. Duffie, what kind of brilliance does that display? In PC, yes I'll agree that Styles would be a welcome return but what does that really say about the PC market and its history.

Example: This morning before 6am (I was listening from 5:30-6 to all) when a severe thunderstorm warning was issued for Crenshaw County which is the county bordering Pike to the west only one station had a live person go in and get on the air to talk about the weather, that was Brad Bailey at WOOF. The WOOF transmitter is about 75? miles from Crenshaw County as the crow flies while the kmx transmitter is only 25? miles. kmx would have had to ask the CH4weatherwise weather reporter to come up and do the update, a practice started by Tom and Kim.

For PC, probably an improvement but definately not up to the standards of Dothan led by KMX in the pre-kmx days. I can speak only for myself Tibbs from my own experience, guess I'm spoiled, very sorry to disagree with you on this issue.

 

[vtown]

Stewy..... I don't think it is very fair to blame Dothan on Kim and Tom. I was interviewed for a management position with Styles in Dothan shortly after the purchase of KMX before the move but turned it down... there are a million reasons why things happened the way they did with the change of staff and that is 100% to blame on that staff not Styles or the managers. As for the current way that cluster is operated I have plenty of choice words and comments that I would love to make but in a nutshell I think most people have already hit the nail on the head. It is time for a change of the guard and I am hopefull that this will take place soon....I myself have information that does back what was said to start this post.... changes are coming and no matter how good the next person is...it will be the biggest up hill battle for anyone to fix the mess that was created by the savannah threesome. I wish them luck...I know many of the people who have invested a great deal of money into that company and I feel bad for them...that company has incredible potential but won't reach it until real radio people run that place. For the record in 19 yrs and in all the successful places I have been part of that was the worst experience of my career and it was all because of the Savannah Threesome.... I only hope that they never have the chance to ruin a single radio station gain.....

Happy New Year All!

JV

 

[Tidd-a-lee winks]

I would not Tibbs, under any circumstances. Remember that Styles was the what spawned Magic. It was Styles that purchased KMX and turned it into kmx with the move, the beginning of old guard KMX dismissals, the changing of the KMX format etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc, ad nauseum. They could not compete with good broadcasters long term and there is still a station in Dothan that has an Alabama Broadcaster of the Year in house, WOOF-Agnes Simpson. Remember that KMX had two-Wallace Miller and Terry Duffie. Styles had ?. Styles destroyed the concept and team that had brought the honor to Dr. Miller and Mr. Duffie, what kind of brilliance does that display? In PC, yes I'll agree that Styles would be a welcome return but what does that really say about the PC market and its history.

Example: This morning before 6am (I was listening from 5:30-6 to all) when a severe thunderstorm warning was issued for Crenshaw County which is the county bordering Pike to the west only one station had a live person go in and get on the air to talk about the weather, that was Brad Bailey at WOOF. The WOOF transmitter is about 75? miles from Crenshaw County as the crow flies while the kmx transmitter is only 25? miles. kmx would have had to ask the CH4weatherwise weather reporter to come up and do the update, a practice started by Tom and Kim.

For PC, probably an improvement but definately not up to the standards of Dothan led by KMX in the pre-kmx days. I can speak only for myself Tibbs from my own experience, guess I'm spoiled, very sorry to disagree with you on this issue.

Funny that you have mentioned WOOF in your post, I was flipping around on the dial last night and heard Laura Pate on WOOF just before midnite on my way home. I thought exactly the exact same thing you were thinking this morning. How is it that Miss Pollard runs promos on TVY talking about thier excellent Weather coverage and they not even be there to talk about it? We all know that storms just don't happen Monday-Friday 9-5.
Is it the fact that no one in that building even cares about thier listeners? Mainly Amie.
You can mark my words thier will be one night that a Tornado will happen in the wiregrass overnight. And it will WOOF that will be the only station that has someone there to cover it. Which it is sad that Radio has come down to just that.

 

[Tidd-a-lee winks]

Stewy..... I don't think it is very fair to blame Dothan on Kim and Tom. I was interviewed for a management position with Styles in Dothan shortly after the purchase of KMX before the move but turned it down... there are a million reasons why things happened the way they did with the change of staff and that is 100% to blame on that staff not Styles or the managers. As for the current way that cluster is operated I have plenty of choice words and comments that I would love to make but in a nutshell I think most people have already hit the nail on the head. It is time for a change of the guard and I am hopefull that this will take place soon....I myself have information that does back what was said to start this post.... changes are coming and no matter how good the next person is...it will be the biggest up hill battle for anyone to fix the mess that was created by the savannah threesome. I wish them luck...I know many of the people who have invested a great deal of money into that company and I feel bad for them...that company has incredible potential but won't reach it until real radio people run that place. For the record in 19 yrs and in all the successful places I have been part of that was the worst experience of my career and it was all because of the Savannah Threesome.... I only hope that they never have the chance to ruin a single radio station gain.....

Happy New Year All!

JV

Alot of this is caused by one certain person that is still employed there. If they get rid of her then things will be alot better,Styles should have pushed her out when they bought the cluster.

 

[attackpoodle]

I would not Tibbs, under any circumstances. Remember that Styles was the what spawned Magic. It was Styles that purchased KMX and turned it into kmx with the move, the beginning of old guard KMX dismissals, the changing of the KMX format etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc, ad nauseum. They could not compete with good broadcasters long term and there is still a station in Dothan that has an Alabama Broadcaster of the Year in house, WOOF-Agnes Simpson. Remember that KMX had two-Wallace Miller and Terry Duffie. Styles had ?. Styles destroyed the concept and team that had brought the honor to Dr. Miller and Mr. Duffie, what kind of brilliance does that display? In PC, yes I'll agree that Styles would be a welcome return but what does that really say about the PC market and its history.

I agree with you Stewy, KMX was a heritage station with the same team since 1974. Even the building had the "retro" furniture from the 70's. They were unbeatable and one of the great stations that is no more. What crushed the station wasn't the "new company that bought them" but rather their inability to successfully consolidate.

The team had only ever sold one radio station in one market with the same owner the same manager and the same dj's for 30 years.....they could not adapt to the changes. Most companies went thru the consolidation process in the late 90's, KMX was behind the 8 ball. Doc Miller and Terry Duffie chose to sell the radio station for $6,500,000.00. That was the beginning of the end. No one would pay that money to purchase a stand alone unless they could consolidate some of the costs, it wouldn't make sense. It is a sad thing to see a great station not able to hold its own. The inexperience of the remaining staff to adapt without the backbone of the station was proof. Doc Miller was in the station every day, and Terry Duffie one of the most creative men in the industry, when they walked away so did the passion of the staff. Maybe if the life long staffers would have profited from the sale, there wouldn't be such sour grapes....

 

[PEANUTCAPITOL]

I would not Tibbs, under any circumstances. Remember that Styles was the what spawned Magic. It was Styles that purchased KMX and turned it into kmx with the move, the beginning of old guard KMX dismissals, the changing of the KMX format etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc, ad nauseum. They could not compete with good broadcasters long term and there is still a station in Dothan that has an Alabama Broadcaster of the Year in house, WOOF-Agnes Simpson. Remember that KMX had two-Wallace Miller and Terry Duffie. Styles had ?. Styles destroyed the concept and team that had brought the honor to Dr. Miller and Mr. Duffie, what kind of brilliance does that display? In PC, yes I'll agree that Styles would be a welcome return but what does that really say about the PC market and its history.

I agree with you Stewy, KMX was a heritage station with the same team since 1974. Even the building had the "retro" furniture from the 70's. They were unbeatable and one of the great stations that is no more. What crushed the station wasn't the "new company that bought them" but rather their inability to successfully consolidate.

The team had only ever sold one radio station in one market with the same owner the same manager and the same dj's for 30 years.....they could not adapt to the changes. Most companies went thru the consolidation process in the late 90's, KMX was behind the 8 ball. Doc Miller and Terry Duffie chose to sell the radio station for $6,500,000.00. That was the beginning of the end. No one would pay that money to purchase a stand alone unless they could consolidate some of the costs, it wouldn't make sense. It is a sad thing to see a great station not able to hold its own. The inexperience of the remaining staff to adapt without the backbone of the station was proof. Doc Miller was in the station every day, and Terry Duffie one of the most creative men in the industry, when they walked away so did the passion of the staff. Maybe if the life long staffers would have profited from the sale, there wouldn't be such sour grapes....

Sour grapes? Come on get real. The passion of the staff was always there it was the people not from this area that brought that station down.
And the current staff that is continuing to do so. Stephano is the only one that I can see that is smooth he just needs a good coach to help him out and he will go far, Which a good coach is whats lacking there.But then again he is the only one from here so maybe he knows what works.
The employees on the 8th floor are fed up with it all and it shows by the quality of work on the air.
As I am sitting here typing this you can't even pick KMX up in Ozark tonight. Do you think that anyone that works there even knows or cares ? Nope of course not.

Stewy I agree that it is pathetic that KMX had not a sole in the control room when the storms were rolling through Pike/Crenshaw County. You mean that WOOF was the only one to have someone there covering it all? Hats off to them Usually DJR & WOOF do a good job with the storm coverage.

 

[Tibbs4]

Don't get me wrong. I completely understand that the "original" KMX was the best sounding station in the area.
(Excluding a certain FM station in PCB in the early to mid 80's...) It was an incredible listen. $6.5M should have been
"a reasonable semi-deal" if Styles and Magic had kept the proper focus. What do you think the station is worth
today? Should make for a fun post.

 

[PEANUTCAPITOL]

Don't get me wrong. I completely understand that the "original" KMX was the best sounding station in the area.
(Excluding a certain FM station in PCB in the early to mid 80's...) It was an incredible listen. $6.5M should have been
"a reasonable semi-deal" if Styles and Magic had kept the proper focus. What do you think the station is worth
today? Should make for a fun post.

Let's see they got rid of all thier top paid people hired others because they could no longer afford to pay the others.
They cannot even afford to have thier transmitter run at 100% on a good day.
They are having a hard time getting a decent $ for spots.
So my guess would be $ 100.00 that KMX is worth.

 

[pnut rox]

Quote from vtown- "there are a million reasons why things happened the way they did with the change of staff and that is 100% to blame on that staff not Styles or the managers"

Styles and the managers are the ones who made the changes and let all thoses talented and those who understood good radio go? So please explain how it was their fault? Guess during your time there you too drank the kool-aid, of no sense.

attackpoodle- I can't even begin to try to argue with you, your logic is so far off base its funny! The KMX staff didn't nothing but get thrown under the bus no matter what they did. The sales staff was getting under cut from the TVY staff almost on a daily basis. When they pointed it out to managers they told to deal with it.

So hopefully Storey is the end of that story. The smartest thing for McCoy and his investors is to pack up and leave Dothan, but we all know that they want WAY too much for that cluster. kmx today I would trade a car...

 

[vtown]

Pnut:

Not going to argue that there are and were talented people there...but the time frame that I'm talking about talent is over rided by bad attitude. ....but if there is one thing that we can all agree upon is that Magic is one of if not the worst run broadcasting company if not now, ever..... very very sad....I just hope that the couple of top ownership will see the light and make the change and hope it's not too late.

JV

 

[Stewy]

Oh come on attackpoodle, you buy what is recognized by all as the best under the auspicious of using the formula and people to make the rest of THE company as great (please refer to the Coaching thread on NWFL) but then you insist on what you buy follows your own PC model that comes nowhere near. Agreeing to lower standards/creativity/community service/revenue is your idea of conforming, not mine.

Just mix some more kool-aid for v-town, he obviously hasn't had enough. Attitude understood clearly enough now Jo?

Tibbs is right, they lost focus. I'll venture a guess at todays value for kmx, 1M and I wonder if that's not being too generous. It's a 100kw but owns no building, no tower and as PEANUTCAPITOL points out there seem to be transmitter issues. When you take into consideration all the stations around the country that are on the block now, value is hurt even more. Yeah, 1M is generous. As for the whole cluster, oh whats-say 3 to 3.5?

Happy NEW Year, may your ball drop gently!

Stewy, out.

 

[radioresearcher]

Oh come on attackpoodle, you buy what is recognized by all as the best under the auspicious of using the formula and people to make the rest of THE company as great (please refer to the Coaching thread on NWFL) but then you insist on what you buy follows your own PC model that comes nowhere near. Agreeing to lower standards/creativity/community service/revenue is your idea of conforming, not mine.

Just mix some more kool-aid for v-town, he obviously hasn't had enough. Attitude understood clearly enough now Jo?

Tibbs is right, they lost focus. I'll venture a guess at todays value for kmx, 1M and I wonder if that's not being too generous. It's a 100kw but owns no building, no tower and as PEANUTCAPITOL points out there seem to be transmitter issues. When you take into consideration all the stations around the country that are on the block now, value is hurt even more. Yeah, 1M is generous. As for the whole cluster, oh whats-say 3 to 3.5?

Happy NEW Year, may your ball drop gently!

Stewy, out.

Old WKMX people still can't let it go. Happy New Year Doug.