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I heard that the San Antonio metro networks office is closing this week.
Anyone have any details? My source mentioned the Cox cluster declined to renew their contract.
Who is being dumped? What is happening in Austin?
 
I've heard from Metro people that the San Antonio and Austin offices are closed or will be closed soon with information to be pumped from Dallas. Any confirmation?
 
You are right my friend! Metro has moved everything to Dallas which means lost jobs in Houston and other markets. Isn't it nice to know that from now on traffic updates will all come from Dallas. It's nice to know that they will know whats happening in other markets and give us updates from another city rather than where it is happening. Sad day in radio, more cutbacks and treating other markets like a step child.
 
iused2bsomebody said:
You are right my friend! Metro has moved everything to Dallas which means lost jobs in Houston and other markets. Isn't it nice to know that from now on traffic updates will all come from Dallas. It's nice to know that they will know whats happening in other markets and give us updates from another city rather than where it is happening. Sad day in radio, more cutbacks and treating other markets like a step child.
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I'm usually in favor of supporting local jobs, but in this case, I see the companys' side of this equation. Since traffic information is gathered from a computer screen these days, rather than an aircraft, the job of traffic reporter could just as easily be done from India or the Phillippines. About the only advantages that someone from the local market brings is knowing how to pronounce "DeZavala" and "Sixteen O' Four" and familiarity with access roads and turnarounds.
 
Fred, regarding the first instance you noted (listening to scanners): they just might. Consider a software-controlled scanner placed anywhere within the reception range of the target city, with a stream of its output audio fed down the internet to a central reporting hub. Or just hunt around on the web for a "free" stream. Have to side with Daypart on this one.
 
About the only advantages that someone from the local market brings is knowing how to pronounce "DeZavala" and "Sixteen O' Four"
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...and Manor, Buda, Manchaca, Elgin, Burnet, Zazamora, Refugio and on and on...

Doubtful a 'Traffic Reporter' responsible for multiple cities is listening to scanners from S.A., Austin, OKC, Houston and the 70+ cities in DFW.

The real story is that Metro is abandoning radio.They had the perfect set-up. They had ad-time on most of the stations in each market, but they couldn't capitalize the resource because they didn't have the sales staff or leadership to get the job done. Recently they dumped a whole bunch of stations, now they're walking away from entire markets.

They did accomplish the goal of driving down wages, so there's that...
 
cell phones. In-dash car devices. on line. embedded in other devices. brain implants. I don't know, they're not consulting me. I do know that hundreds of former employees are no longer with WW1, and more than a hundred markets are either no longer served, or are served from distant locations. hundreds of stations have been dropped, or have dropped affiliations.
 
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