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Radioguy914
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Looks Like the Miller Kaplan caught up with Clear Channel Market Manager Michael Oppenheimer. The staff was informed this morning that he has been let go.
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Is there anyone out there who didn't see this coming about a year ago? Replacing a DOS and Ops Mgr can only buy you so much time......
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Molly2011
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Too bad corporate didn't see it sooner. They allowed Michael to ruin people lives..managers..sellers..on air..production.
So all the jack-legs that called out Chetter for NOT taking the clear channel offer....time to pony up and admit you were wrong.
Trust me, some of the stations at Thousand Oaks are suffering more than you can imagine. The ones that left or were laid off are better off without CCR.
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Radioguy914
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Word has it that John Hogan himself was in town with Tony Berringer RVP....in an eight minute staff meeting, Beringer supposedly said that Memphis was 'toxic' and that if anyone didn't like the way things were being run that they needed to get out now.
MemBigRick said:
Seriously, if you were Ric, would you want to be re-hired by Clear Channel just so you could get fired again and deal with that non-compete clause? I wish Ric the best of luck with Radio Memphis. I know he's happier there than he was with CC.
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Brother Doug
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Things are getting very toxic.If John Hogan was in town with the EVP then you can count on a cluster sale in the very near future.How bout Cumulus acquiring them? SInce they already made the Iheart radio deal together. There will be more massive layoffs in the very near future. SO I wonder how long it took Mikey boy to get his things and get out..because he damned sure didnt give me enough time to get anything I had left in the production room. Hey Michael welcome to the world of unemployment. I hope you can survive on what I make now.Maybe youll be so poor like me youll have to buy all your food at Savealot on Poplar.Good luck finding another job that you can screw people out of.
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Facts are really coming out now....Hogan was not in town...sorry for the innacuarcy. It was Senior VP Hartley Atkins with Berringer. Michael was actually fired via PHONE while he's on Spring Break with his family in Mexico. They told him they'd ship his stuff to his house, and not to bother coming back in. I doubt that a sale is looming, but most like more cuts in on-air staff. Sales is supposedly in a shambles...I've been told by a client that they found the new DOS to be 'very unprofessional'. When you supervise a shift from top local biller to number three in the Miller Kaplan, how long for the world can you be?
There is no more "toxic" person in CC (actually in the radio business) than John Hogan.
......you mean a breast tat is not professional?Radioguy914 said:
I hope the best for him. I can't imagine the burden he's borne the last couple years.
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Molly2011
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He must be very tired...all that finger pointing is exhusting!
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Brother Doug
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Mike was not in Mexico...he is at home. I just talked to him on the phone and he declined to tell me what exactly happened and then hung up on me...classy guy huh?
Classy move Bro, very classy.Brother Doug said:
Radioguy914 said:
Beringer ought to know about toxicity. He's turned a successful, happy little cluster into toxic waste dumpsite in Fayetteville. I still can't believe they think it's a good idea for him to be in charge of Memphis.
Yo Tony...there are three important words you need to explore: "hostile work environment".
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Look at what you said earlier, then tell me why he should ever tell you a thing? That was pretty low of you to call him in the first place and rub it in.
Given enough time, Radio Memphis will generate more revenue. I can imagine that the advertising dollars may not be in great abundance over there right now. In the long run, Ric and company are going to be better off financially than they would have been with CC. That group just has to have the tenacity to hang in there and live frugally for now.
Heck, if you are making even $7.25/hr in this day and age in terrestrial, internet, or satellite radio, you are lucky. That's a sad statement, but it's the truth.
Heck, if you are making even $7.25/hr in this day and age in terrestrial, internet, or satellite radio, you are lucky. That's a sad statement, but it's the truth.
Ric and Radio Memphis will do well in due time. Glad he said no to CCR. He (and many that were let go) are doing better than the few left behind. I mean, who does better: the abused who get away or the abused who stay?
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