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Major Leadership Change for CC in NC?

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Charlottan

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I have been out of radio for three years now so I don't keep up with much. But a friend of mine who used to work with me at Clear Channel is now with them in Houston. He called over the weekend to say CC brass are begging Mark Kopelman to take over Charlotte, Greensboro and Raleigh but not Asheville. He was my boss in Raleigh circa 1998. Supposedly Charlotte is the worst of the bunch with Greensboro close behind. Raleigh sales are behind last year (I heard 8%) and the overall management team is weak there. How can one company so screw up three good markets at once?
 
Charlottan said:
I have been out of radio for three years now so I don't keep up with much. But a friend of mine who used to work with me at Clear Channel is now with them in Houston. He called over the weekend to say CC brass are begging Mark Kopelman to take over Charlotte, Greensboro and Raleigh but not Asheville. He was my boss in Raleigh circa 1998. Supposedly Charlotte is the worst of the bunch with Greensboro close behind. Raleigh sales are behind last year (I heard 8%) and the overall management team is weak there. How can one company so screw up three good markets at once?
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Wow guess you have been out of touch. It's called layoffs, 2008 was a really bad year for lots of CC employees. Morale for those who are left can't be very high. Charlotte was a good operation and the cuts came late there, but they did happen.
 
All I hear from CC employees is gloom and doom. What a huge problem and the worst part is that CC really has no clue what is going on. Greensboro, Charlotte, and Raleigh are all suffering and much of it is due to upper management. The sellers are pushed daily to increase sales but there is no back up. Ratings are all over the place but Austin demands increases. This is not a time to be a CC employee!
 
Radio is nowhere near what it use to be, at one time it was fun. Now you have the high dollar management who are clueless when it come to actual work, not to mentions in the in's and out's with the mind-set. "we'll cut some here...nope, that didn't work...ok We'll cut some here...nope that didn't work either. Look at CBS across town, they're doing the same thing over there. Just recently they had another round of lay-off's...Both CC and CBS should start cutting fat from the top. Cut the phat wallets, there's your saving....
 
I caught wind of this today. Chris Jones who used to be at Clear Channel in Raleigh was asked to come back and take over RDU and GWSHP as DOS. The numbers did not work and he is now being courted for a higher level position. Someone in San Antonio is convinced nothing less than a sweeping change in Raleigh, Charlotte, and Greensboro will clean up the CC-NC house. I have not heard anything aobout Ashvl.
 
TheStoker said:
Maybe it's time to 'program correctly' and have staff that aren't former interns.
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Shock and AWE!

Are you serious? You want them to hire people with real radio experience, who actually have a clue about what to do?

Blasphemy! Off with your head!!

ROFLMAO!!!!
 
;D I thought you would like that one. My favorite line, "from intern to PD in 18 months". Better yet, one I have seen "from receptionist to PD"!
 
TheStoker said:
;D I thought you would like that one. My favorite line, "from intern to PD in 18 months". Better yet, one I have seen "from receptionist to PD"!
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And I thought it was only in Greenville where you could go from voicetracking overnights to being a morning co-host in less than a year. :-\
 
TheStoker said:
Anything to keep from employing a veteran of the business.
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Wow! With as positive and optimistic you guys all are, I can't IMAGINE why any of you would have trouble landing work. :-\
 
Kopelman would be great for all three markets in North Carolina. The idea of Chris Jones as a multi-faceted (Gbro/Rlgh) DOS makes little sense and a "higher level" position even less sense. I have nothing against Chris but he was in such a position in Raleigh when that cluster started its free-fall. If someone could not win (when all of the CCU stations were in much better positions) they probably would not be a good answer nearly a decade later. I am all for CCU's getting better b/c it is better for radio. I just wish they would work harder to search out proven leaders/winners out there and get on with the changes that need to be made.
 
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