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Q105 - station's position on the Rally

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Well I heard it from someone that still works at Q105 that knows - they have been told by
Ed Graham that anyone that shows up at the Rally will be FIRED!!!
So it looks like they are controlling their time off of work as well. No such thnig as a free
country and being able to go where you want to go, or visit friends that you want to visit.
 
If I were in management there, I'd do the same thing. It's counter to the interests of the radio station's direction as the management has chosen.

Sorry, but anyone, in the current environment, that would show up at a rally which is basically intended as an attack against Q105 and the moves it made, is an absolute fool.
 
As left and liberal as I am, I can see their position. It's not like current a staffer having dinner with a past staffer at Berns or Denny's or somebody's home. I think that to stop that would be illegal. However, the rally is a protest against station policy and right or wrong, I'm not surprised.
 
I'll be there, not to protest, but to show support for folks I miss working with.

Anybody who thinks they can fire me for eating at a restaurant that's open to the public, in my own time has got another thing coming. When my husband was in the navy, there were certain establishments off base that were "off limits". Civilian employers do not have the same authority over their employees in their free time.

Besides, who's going to be the hypocritical CBS employee who will show up to tell on the others who showed up? That person should be fired first, then the rest will be safe.

There are other events going on at Quaker Steak and Lube. Perhaps I'll buy a Harley, learn to ride and join a biker gang so that I can be there with them! (hold the flame wars folks, that was sarcasm.)
 
Still, Mr. Krampf's position seems strange, given that video where he said he wanted to help all the local businesses. Guess that doesn't mean QS&L. ;D
 
Have to say...I'm not surprised with the decision handed down by Q105's management. All I will add is: if I worked at that station and management said to steer clear of a protest rally or risk being fired, I'd do as they asked. It does beg the question, as to whether management is using "scare tactics" or if someone will be planted in the crowd. If I were the manager, I'd want to know what happened, so wouldn't be surprised if someone at the rally "reports back."
 
In Louisiana, a federal court upheld the firing of a truck driver for crossdressing off the job
 
Glitter, if you truly DO work there, and are foolish enough to show up, then get fired, you have deserved it, if not for the slapping your employer in the face publicly, then simply for the sheer stupidity of risking your job to say goodbye to people that, if they truly ARE your friends, you know how to contact and say goodbye to in a less foolish way.
 
I have spoken to a few of them since they left the building. I was planning to go there not as a protest, but to enjoy the party with folks who won't all be likely to get together in one place ever again. I see it more as a reunion than a protest.

My decision to be there has nothing to do with whether my employer approves of my attendance or not. I made up my mind a long time ago that I will be there. I won't allow myself to be bullied by my boss. When I'm off the clock, I'm free to go where I want. I'm beginning to get a craving for some hot wings.

I will be there, and I will not be fired. If I am fired for having lunch at Quaker Steak and Lube on Saturday, the lawsuit will surely make headlines. I don't think any big corporation wants that type of publicity.

Slapping my boss in the face? It's more like self defense. I consider it to be a slap in my face when my constitutional right to freedom of assembly is denied.

If we start allowing others to dictate where we can go, and what we can do in our free time, then the terrorists have won.
 
GlitterGal28 said:
I have spoken to a few of them since they left the building. I was planning to go there not as a protest, but to enjoy the party with folks who won't all be likely to get together in one place ever again. I see it more as a reunion than a protest.

My decision to be there has nothing to do with whether my employer approves of my attendance or not. I made up my mind a long time ago that I will be there. I won't allow myself to be bullied by my boss. When I'm off the clock, I'm free to go where I want. I'm beginning to get a craving for some hot wings.

I will be there, and I will not be fired. If I am fired for having lunch at Quaker Steak and Lube on Saturday, the lawsuit will surely make headlines. I don't think any big corporation wants that type of publicity.

Slapping my boss in the face? It's more like self defense. I consider it to be a slap in my face when my constitutional right to freedom of assembly is denied.

If we start allowing others to dictate where we can go, and what we can do in our free time, then the terrorists have won.
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No way this person works at Q-105.
 
I just don't see the point to this.

In the old days competing stations would do stuff like this, but then they would hire the talent involved.

But what good is going to come out of this? If it is played as a "thank you" event for the jocks and the entertainment they provided that's good. If it's to try and somehow embarrass CBS it's pointless.

And because it is probably the latter, if I worked at Q105 and a co-worker wanted to go to this thing, I wouldn't want them working with me.

It is, after all, a business, and when it all washes out in the end, it was all about money, and nothing else. Same reason people are being let go in every other industry in America right now.
 
MsMusicRadio said:
In Louisiana, a federal court upheld the firing of a truck driver for crossdressing off the job
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If Marvin shows up in a dress, he should immediately be HIRED for Sirius' OutQ channel....

I plan to attend this event as a "thank you" to some wonderful and talented broadcasters. To think that an event of this, or any other, nature could reverse the bad judgement of corporate radio operators is idiotic. The only thing that might get their attention would be a widely supported boycott of the stations' advertisers, but they've lost so much advertising in the current economic crisis that management probably wouldn't even notice that.
 
The only thing that might rattle the cages at CBS is science fiction. Some other major FM station hires the ex-Q staff and takes Q on head to head. I guess if such a think could happen, it would have, although there are rumors that COX is giving overnights to the Chuppacabra or the Jersey Devil depending on who shows up first. ( guess which station)
 
I don't think anybody is waiting or the right moment to go Oldies. CHR is more than likely due to the economy and the buying habits of the younger demos.

Don't be surprised to hear either Amp 92.5 or Amp 104.7 - whichever frequency currently bills lower.
 
1) I'm not thinking head to head by playing the exact music. I;m thinking 70's /80's like they used to be.

2) Wouldn't a CHR be up against their own WLLD plus WFLZ and WBTP? Or is that the point> CBS goes after CC with the same combo of urban/CHR? Who would be the jocks on Amp? Does CBS have a warehouse of syndicated cHR/HOT AC guys like Ryan Seacreast to fill 24 hours a day?

3) does CBS have any market leading cHR's anywhere? Does WBBM-FM count?
 
MsMusicRadio said:
1) I'm not thinking head to head by playing the exact music. I;m thinking 70's /80's like they used to be.

2) Wouldn't a CHR be up against their own WLLD plus WFLZ and WBTP? Or is that the point> CBS goes after CC with the same combo of urban/CHR? Who would be the jocks on Amp? Does CBS have a warehouse of syndicated cHR/HOT AC guys like Ryan Seacreast to fill 24 hours a day?

3) does CBS have any market leading cHR's anywhere? Does WBBM-FM count?
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If what CBS appears to be doing with CHR in LA and maybe NY (they already blew up FM hot talk KLSX and K-Rock in NY might be the next to go), it appears that the days of every station on the dial chasing 25-54 may be taking a break (if not totally over). Did you watch the American Music Awards this year? I don't think there were any artists over 18. The business world is following suit and marketing to kids, and if the kid station is on in the car, the parents are listening too. It's like McDonalds, how many adults actually like the food?... but you're already in the drive-through for a Happy Meal, so you might as well get a couple of Big Macs.....

As far as WLLD is concerned, the hip-hop audience is late teens and beyond, I think a CBS CHR at this point would be playing a lot of Taylor Swift, Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus and rock hits along with some hip-hop. Different animal.
 
Blowing up a CBS station and flipping to CHR is really going way back in the day in it's own way. Teens controlled radio when I was a teen with stations like KQV in Pittsburgh getting double digits (or WMCA or WLEE or WLS or WQAM or WPDQ or wherever you are from.) I remember that the most the popular recording artists were very young. ( Elvis, the Beatles). In fact , young artists were so dominant that many old line MOR stations like the Group W chain started to add a lot of "Rock n' Roll. There was no term like "boy bands" cause that was all of them for the most part{ or girl bands). I know WABC could play "Yakkety Sax", but that music style was the exception.

If ownership groups think CHR can save FM radio, they are just showing that everything old is new again and it's 1959.

I still wonder if CBS would run this AMP live and local, use syndicated shows, college types like on WPOI, or whatever. If they are so cash strapped that they had to fire most everybody from 2 stations, how could they hire jocks that would be "all the rage" and make local promotional appearances at cash strapped schools or failing Chevy dealerships to promote the hot new Camerro when (if) it debuts? can Ryan Seacrest work on CBS or is he a CC property ;D I'm sure he could do FLZ and AMP without breaking a sweat. ;D

"The kids are all right!"
 
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