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Major Clear Channel Cuts coming next week...

radiochick1221 said:
is this only in this market or nation-wide?
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Nationwide. Deep cuts. If you hear of "Premium Choice" - That is a syndicated service and will eventually replace the mornings and evenings...Also Traffic...
 
That will trash every clear channel station. They will lose local advertisers and listeners. In this market, they will be helping ABC and TSM by doing this. Put the key in the lock and leave.
 
Like the word say in an NES game "Pro Wrestling", "What a Pity!" Who is CC laying off the people from the station? Maybe be the Joker from Batman I believe is the one to wants to let the people and the airstaff go. Enough already!

Things have been change in HV radio since if CC would let go as of next week. It would be replace by some syndicated music show made by iHeartRadio. First, Bob Miller goes to WBPM starting Monday, but now another big news coming as of next week. Bob Miller & Suzy Garcia got let go from WCZX since February when he was doing her stint at "I95" and she is now currently in Albany doing her show on "Fly 92.3" and Bob Miller is going to do mornings on WBPM like I said this Monday. Cumulus had some cuts over the last several months, but now Cumulus owns WABC and WPLJ in New York after it took over from Citadel a few weeks ago.

You want to see all the local people in HV radio are leaving CC to go syndicated in the future?
 
Any format tweaks/flips expected? Maybe WKKF, they're the lowest of their music formats in Albany... basically the only thing keeping them afloat nowadays is Elvis Duran :)

Could WKKF go Christmas within the next couple of weeks only to emerge with an Adult CHR or maybe some other format? It'd be interesting to see what happens between now and after Christmas, between Pamal, Townsquare and Clear Channel...
 
I received a message that was very, very specific. It involved numerous things and specifically 4 items of interest. Morning and midday shows (I mentioned evening shows, this is also in jeopardy, but not at the moment)

Traffic and Program Directors. So whomever is on this now, be careful.

"The number of program directors will be cutback “severely” as a result of the increased national content being piped to local stations that will no longer be doing much local programming" - It read...

Good luck to those that may be affected.
 
if i had the choice I would never work for clear channel it's republican owned and operated and there a national company with strict standards.

I think albany broadcasting and Town Square will grow in a result from this and DJRA Broadcasting could grow too.
 
radio101 said:
if i had the choice I would never work for clear channel it's republican owned and operated and there a national company with strict standards.

I think albany broadcasting and Town Square will grow in a result from this and DJRA Broadcasting could grow too.
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Oh please. Shareholders, not Republicans own CC....leave politics out of this.
 
Pinegroves said:
That's Cheap Channel with "Heartless Hogan" as their leader.
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Hogan may not be a prize, but I doubt he was up late for nights at a time orchestrating this plan. When push comes to shove, he's probably been little more than a figurehead since private equity took Clear Channel over a few years ago. If you haven't heard me say it, I'm sure you've heard others say private equity firms make publicly traded companies look like Mr. Rogers. They spend other people's money to buy properties, squeeze the life out of them in the name of making money for their largest investors and unload them on someone else, often the same person they bought them from originally because they leverage the deal. That person then finds the company is worth way less than they thought because the PE firm rendered it a shell of its former self.

Whatever the decision that's forthcoming, the call was almost certainly made by private equity. Clear Channel corporate just had to find a way to carry the plan out.
 
THE_KNICKMAN said:
Any indication of cutbacks with their news staffs?
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No...but I have heard that any remaining live afternoon shifts will be eliminated....Contrary to what ever those affected are being told...
 
Some of what I've read...

"Many stations will no longer have a live midday show. The replacement is Premium Choice syndicated programming from the mothership. It’s cheaper that way.

Some people on the ground who say they are familiar with the preliminary cutback plans report at least 25% of Clear Channel’s morning shows will be replaced by national programming.

Evening personalities will be rare after these cutbacks are implemented.

The number of program directors will be cutback “severely” as a result of the increased national content being piped to local stations that will no longer be doing much local programming.

Some stations may be doing as much as 100% of its programming from the Premium Choice catalog of in-house syndicated programming.

Next Wednesday is thought to be the detonation day for this massive round of Clear Channel cuts and it may roll on longer. Back in January there was a big “day after” meeting as well.

Bob Pittman is moving like lightning to reduce the company’s operating expenses in a series of cutbacks that will basically turn Clear Channel radio into local towers and transmitters with very few, if any, local employees and all the content and much of the sales support coming from elsewhere"
 
I got a feeling that morning local personalities on new talk formats, WGY in this area will be left alone. They have too many topics of local interests that they air. Besides, everything else that is aired is syndicated; Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Mark Levin, Coast to Coast. The music formats, most listeners could probably care less where the music is comming from. There may be local inserts of what might amount to a local events calendar. If I were a local business purchasing radio time, I would probably direct my advertising to a station that has sales people local rather than to some outfit in some distant city.
 
Clear channel is cutting back big time there a big company I am sure they have reasons, like i said before I would never work for any national radio companies like clear channel.
 
flashback said:
is WFBQ indianapolis a clear channel station?
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Wrong thread maybe? This is the Albany/Hudson Valley board not the Indiana board :) But yes, that is a Clear Channel station if you were wondering...

Anyways, back to CC Albany: Clear Channel will probably run stations like WRVE, WPYX, etc. more automated/satellite with very little local programming (maybe just mornings, if that)... some format tweaks/changes perhaps, and traffic and PDs will be cut :)
 
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