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Massive CC Layoffs Next Week!

Voice tracking anyone?

Board ops polish up your resumes!
 
Thanks for catching up... Story has been out for 2 weeks....hello taylor on radio.
 
Call Sign: KDGE-FM
Format: Alternative

Call Sign: KDMX-FM
Format: AC (MIX)

Call Sign: KEGL-FM
Format: Rock

Call Sign: KHKS-FM
Format: CHR (KISS)

Call Sign: KZPS-FM
Format: Classic Rock
 
jeffdfw said:
Call Sign: KDGE-FM
Format: Alternative

Call Sign: KDMX-FM
Format: AC (MIX)

Call Sign: KEGL-FM
Format: Rock

Call Sign: KHKS-FM
Format: CHR (KISS)

Call Sign: KZPS-FM
Format: Classic Rock
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...and KFXR 1190
 
jeffdfw said:
1.) Massive restructuring plan that seeks to cut $400 million in costs at the company.

2.) Restructuring will include layoffs across the company's radio operations.

3.) The company is also likely to move toward a "national programming" model that would require less local-level staffing.

Story Link:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01162009/business/clear_channel_plans_revamp_150374.htm
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I'm not trying to be flip since I feel for anyone that would lose their job, but hasn't CC already moved to "national programming" with "less local-level staffing" for some time now. KHKS runs nationally syndicated Kidd Kraddick in the mornings and its midday and afternoon drive DJs are heard on other CC stations (Toby Knapp is on WIHT Washington; Jackson Blue on WXKS-FM Boston). Isn't KEGL's midday and evening jocks voicetracked from Tampa (Big Rig/WXTB) and Houston (Zakk United/KTBZ-FM)?
 
Technically, Kidd Kraddick is local for kiss isn't he? I'm not sure if he has his own studio or if he hangs out in the kiss studio, but they were on kiss before they were syndicated weren't they?
 
Texaz said:
Technically, Kidd Kraddick is local for kiss isn't he? I'm not sure if he has his own studio or if he hangs out in the kiss studio, but they were on kiss before they were syndicated weren't they?
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Yes. My point was the majority of shifts on KEGL (Lex & Terry, middays, nights) and KHKS (Kraddick, middays, afternoons) are staffed with shows or DJs that appear on other Clear Channel outlets whether they originate here or from some other Clear Channel outlet. As well, the nightshift on KDGE is voicetracked from LA. Clear Channel has syndicated Ryan Seacrest on numerous outlets it owns across the country. And so on... So, what exactly will change in a model of "less local-level" content since it seems they already operate in that model?
 
Texaz said:
Technically, Kidd Kraddick is local for kiss isn't he? I'm not sure if he has his own studio or if he hangs out in the kiss studio, but they were on kiss before they were syndicated weren't they?
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Far as I know, Kidd's working out of his Las Colinas studio, as that's where his ____ Network is located (Ya!, Rah!, Yo!, Yeah!, "Yee Haw" or something like that is the name of it.) He's simply a vendor to KHKS and no longer an employee or anything. I believe what you hear here is the same that's piped out to the rest of the US. And like most syndie hosts, I'm sure he cuts custom ID's and a few local spots to make things sound local. These days, it's just coincidental to the situation that he's in the DFW area.

One difference I'm hearing about with the new CC model is that Mix, for example, will be master-formatted out of San Antonio (or wherever; point being that it'll be centralized) and piped out to each Mix-formatted station in the US. That'll relieve the need for any local jock, voicetracking or otherwise, or a board op, or much else. We may even see some format changes here with the CC stations to make them fit into a NATIONAL model. Most CC stations were fitted with satellite uplink capabilities over the last few years so that, ultimately, San Antonio could push a button and completely override any of its own stations and pipe in whatever they choose from the home base. Sure makes things easier when it comes time for layoffs...the talent's working but hears different programming on the air monitor, then the landlord comes to the door and says he's there to overlock the place. No muss, no fuss, no embarrassing exit interviews, and no one to discuss severance packages with.

This is truly pitiful. Used to, syndication mainly helped out the mom-and-pops in smaller markets. Now we're going to get cookie cutter crap and something akin to satellite, with no local presence right here in Market #5! (and God forbid there ever be a tornado warning.)

Read Jerry Del Colliano's blog. He's got the perspective on this. http://insidemusicmedia.blogspot.com/
 
Someone once said and it bears repeating no matter how many times: 'remember when it was radio'? Tech schools for broadcasters need to close their doors if they haven't already,because its less lucrative as a career than it ever was before. Voice work will be sparingly among former announcers as one voice will fit all. Its gloomy,and its upon us, there's no denying it. Yeah it was radio before 1997 when deregulation set in.
 
MikeShannon914 said:
This is truly pitiful. Used to, syndication mainly helped out the mom-and-pops in smaller markets. Now we're going to get cookie cutter crap and something akin to satellite, with no local presence right here in Market #5! (and God forbid there ever be a tornado warning.)

Read Jerry Del Colliano's blog. He's got the perspective on this. http://insidemusicmedia.blogspot.com/
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The web sites for these cookie cutter stations are all the same as well......

The Hot Babes soft porn, music jukebox on line (with station cut-ins)....

But Rarely an easy way to make a music suggestion.... Unless it's Freebird... and then the requiste "Hell Yeah"... from the caring DJ !

The souless marketing of ..... Music.... for the American Idol type of listener....

Paris and 50 cent with their TV programs....

It's a Madhouse..... A Madhouse !!!!!
 
txchipk said:
Yes. My point was the majority of shifts on KEGL (Lex & Terry, middays, nights) and KHKS (Kraddick, middays, afternoons) are staffed with shows or DJs that appear on other Clear Channel outlets whether they originate here or from some other Clear Channel outlet. As well, the nightshift on KDGE is voicetracked from LA. Clear Channel has syndicated Ryan Seacrest on numerous outlets it owns across the country. And so on... So, what exactly will change in a model of "less local-level" content since it seems they already operate in that model?
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That means, the 1 or 2 people still in the studios will be bounced aout the doors, too.
 
yah it's pretty bad out there. I currently (used to) export my services for 15 different CC stations throughout the country and was just given notice that my services were not needed anymore.

At first I was completely against the idea of voice tracking many years ago, until I was told that this was the only way to keep my job. Now that is not enough for the company. I even spoke to my local GM and said I was willing to take a pay-cut. No Dice ???
 
So, what it sounds like to me is that CC is going to start broadcasting like Sirius-XM without the satellite... 'Mix' in Dallas/Fort Worth will be the same as 'Mix' in Boston or Tyler, TX? Same with KISS etc. Kidd mornings and Seacrest afternoons. All very generic with very little, if any, local feeling? :-\ AND doing it on Inauguration Day so "nobody will notice"... Nice. :-[
 
Well of course they don't want "anyone to notice". It's too late. Once again for those scoring at home, radio is losing listeners on a daily/yearly basis. Only management types, spin meisters of numbers for broadcast companies and consultants will tell you different because that is their job. A 4 share is far better today than a 15 share 6 years ago right? <smirk>. The business degreed in the 1980's professionals in radio today are certainly wizards aren't they? When you weaken the product ,no one will come. Harlan Sanders was told by Professional investors back in the 1970's he could save money and increase profit if he cut his ingredients in half and water them down. He said then it wouldn't be Kentucky Fried Chicken ,it would be Alpo and my dogs don't eat that S*. Thus the suits in radio have watered down the quality of radio,making it more unappealing, with each year. Sure fellow business addicts will buy some ads with hopes their product needs to get its name out there and sales will increase. It would under normal circumstances ,but it ain't normal anymore. The basics were ignored and discarded and the "brilliant" ideas <sic> replaced them with MIX, KISS, HOT,and the generics go on. If you want chocolate and they only serve vanilla, you don't buy. If you make yourself less appealing in radio, the listener turns you off.
 
On a much lighter note(know I sure could use one)....does all this mean Elvis is NOT coming?
 
Sadly, that means you'll hear great voices coming from your drive-up speakers.
What a freakin' shame. I wish everyone, from ALL companies, the best.
 
radiotimesjock said:
yah it's pretty bad out there. I currently (used to) export my services for 15 different CC stations throughout the country and was just given notice that my services were not needed anymore.

At first I was completely against the idea of voice tracking many years ago, until I was told that this was the only way to keep my job. Now that is not enough for the company. I even spoke to my local GM and said I was willing to take a pay-cut. No Dice ???
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What am I missing? Sounds to me that you were saving CC 15 salaries? Why would they suspend your services??
 
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