yipes, 83 cumulouse country stations to become 1 big centralized nashrash! this critic(scott), guesses they will incrementally begin to disintegrate local employage market by market. until eventually there is just a few top dogs hosting, interviewing and laughing it up on all 83 stations. does cumulouse really need 83 country music directors, and 83 country program directors, and 83 morning and afternoon hosts, when the work is and or can be done at the McCumulouse central command center?
this will provide a good vacuum of an opportunity for the other local country station/s and staff to flex their muscle, and inform their listenership and market what that big out o town competition is all about. but, i wonder if that young, short attention span demographic even cares these days?
this may also have some financial positives, as they thin the payroll, and corral their national market of major urban market listeners to the same websight, magazine, and probably even eventually live TV/screen broadcasts. ya, this may put them on a national broadcast level and create a big national network like clout.
