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Ominous Item In AllAccess.com

BossRadioDJ

BossRadioDJ

I hate non-specific, vague, blind items, but AllAccess.com ran the following this morning:

Cuts Rumored In San Francisco

ALL ACCESS ears to the ground in SAN FRANCISCO are reporting "retructuring" has cost up to a dozen jobs in the market.

That's the entire item. No mention of ownership groups, stations or personnel.

"How do you keep an a-hole in suspense? I'll tell you later..."
 
BossRadioDJ said:
I hate non-specific, vague, blind items, but AllAccess.com ran the following this morning:

Cuts Rumored In San Francisco

ALL ACCESS ears to the ground in SAN FRANCISCO are reporting "retructuring" has cost up to a dozen jobs in the market.

That's the entire item. No mention of ownership groups, stations or personnel.

"How do you keep an a-hole in suspense? I'll tell you later..."
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Considering the story immediately follows a story about cuts at CC/Chicago, I'm going to go out on a limb, and assume the cuts are at CC/SF.
 
Program director Bob Agnew along with other promotion, production and programming people were fired yesterday.
 
Talking Furniture said:
Program director Bob Agnew along with other promotion, production and programming people were fired yesterday.
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Amazing. Who does that leave in programming on the AM side at CC?

Programming/by machine/by default.

It's official. Radio est mortuus.

Unless Clark Reid is there to revive the KABL call letters at 960 and bring back those Adulty Standards...
 
BossRadioDJ said:
Amazing. Who does that leave in programming on the AM side at CC?
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Chief Engineer?

djfrresh said:
do know what djs got fire at clear channel stations in the bay kmel wild 949
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Huh? That a question or a statement, djfrresh?

Seriously, djfrresh, to say this as gently as I can so as not to get edited by the MBE here, you would do well to work on your sentence construction and punctuation or have someone proofread your posts so that the rest of us can understand what you're trying to say, OK, buddy? :)
 
Anybody out there who can summarize the facts at the moment? The previous posts are as vague and inconclusive as the original.
Let's start from the beginning; which stations and who's out?

Thanks
 
Can't summarize on that...Will say though that the Agnew firing was a long time coming, from what I hear.

He did absolutely ZERO for the AMs while was there...And wasn't he supposed to help CC with sports programming of some type? That was in the press release when he was hired. Also heard he still has a year left on his original deal. That should cushion the blow just a tad.

Also...One of the others let go at CC was Mario Butzner who was mainly a production guy who wasn't making all that much money in comparison. But, hey...can the longtime local employee, save 40K.
 
tripton99 said:
Anybody out there who can summarize the facts at the moment? The previous posts are as vague and inconclusive as the original.
Let's start from the beginning; which stations and who's out?

Thanks
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This one station fired that one dude, and that other station fired this other dude, who like did stuff, and...um...wait, what?
 
promotions director for KYLD, a promotions admin also from KYLD/KMEL, 2 production guys from KYLD, a payroll staffer, and a full-time van driver for KMEL join Bob agnew on the chopping block..
 
DyingMedium said:
He did absolutely ZERO for the AMs while was there...And wasn't he supposed to help CC with sports programming of some type? That was in the press release when he was hired. Also heard he still has a year left on his original deal. That should cushion the blow just a tad.
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And the changes Agnew did do served only to muddy the waters. Changing the callsign and slogan of KQKE "The Quake" to K-something "Green" something or other is probably the poorest reposition of anything I can remember in Bay Area radio. Doesn't sound any different to me.
 
This doesn't sound like the Bob Agnew that ushered The Sports Leader to KNBR in 1989. How could a guy fairly successfully pull that off and be so ineffective in his most recent gig?
 
I don't think Agnew did a very good job at all in recent years on KNBR. There were many failed and terrible morning shows, as well and the ultra-boring Rick Barry. Plus, didn't he have a falling out with Bob Fitzgerald, a decent enough host, who was finally able to return after Agnew left?
 
sloux said:
This doesn't sound like the Bob Agnew that ushered The Sports Leader to KNBR in 1989. How could a guy fairly successfully pull that off and be so ineffective in his most recent gig?
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There could be several reasons. With Susquehanna, known to be a class station owner, he had a budget. Perhaps he had no budget at Clear Channel. Certainly there doesn't seem to be a budget to make the automation run properly.

Or if he had a budget maybe he was simply out of his depth. Just because someone can program a sports talk station does not mean they can program a general talk station, especially two of them, each programmed to different political directions.

And sometimes it's just the luck of time and circumstances. Maybe at KNBR he was in the right place at the right time and KNEW/KQKE was the wrong place at the wrong time.
 
Was anyone able to find a legitimate source to back up the aloof posting on allacess.com? I saw the item in Brad Kava's blog. but like in a newspaper or something?
 
"This doesn't sound like the Bob Agnew that ushered The Sports Leader to KNBR in 1989. How could a guy fairly successfully pull that off and be so ineffective in his most recent gig?"

When Agnew came into KNBR, it was already a successful station, with a mix of sports programming, the SF Giants (who were coming off a couple of decent years, as I remember), and I believe KNBR had already snagged Rush Limbaugh's high rated talk show in late mornings - second in the ratings only to Ronn Owens on KGO. By comparison, 960 AM had been low rated for a number of years with the KABL standards format, and the troubled Air America programming.

Besides, success once doesn't guarantee subsequent success. The best analogy I can think of was TV programming "genius" Fred Silverman, who brought ABC up from lowly number 3 to a strong number one in just a couple of seasons in the early-mid 70s. Think "Happy Days," "Welcome Back, Kotter," etc. He actually knocked CBS out of the number one spot they had held for over 20 years. A few years later, he was hired by NBC which had become #3 primarily because ABC had gotten so strong under his programming. But at NBC, all Silverman did was create low quality derivatives of his ABC programming ("Love Boat" became "Super Train," etc.). At NBC, he was also responsible for "Manimal," probably one of the most laughably bad shows in TV history. NBC didn't begin to recover until they dumped Silverman.
 
Lkeller said:
When Agnew came into KNBR, it was already a successful station, with a mix of sports programming, the SF Giants (who were coming off a couple of decent years, as I remember), and I believe KNBR had already snagged Rush Limbaugh's high rated talk show in late mornings - second in the ratings only to Ronn Owens on KGO.
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I was a lowly intern at KNBR working for Leo Laporte when Bob and Tony Salvadore came on the scene. At that time, they still were operating the lifestyle/magazine format until 5 p.m. The lifestyle format slowly phased out when Rush replaced them in the mid 90's along with others like Gary Radnich.

True, the Giants were strong in those early years, going to the World Series in 1989. Following that the 89 earthquake gave several of the 50KW talkers a huge lift.

I guess my point was Bob Agnew engineered much of the Sports transition at the station, and it would appear he was fairly successful, even if he had the tide going his direction anyway.
 
Well, nothing that I saw with him at CC led me to believe he had much to do with KNBR's success. I guess you have to give him credit. He was there for a long time.

But, it's just really hard for me to reconcile that with the ineptitude I saw him display at CC.
 
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