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Q105 - station's position on the Rally

To really get historical, flipping Q105 to CHR would be like ABC flipping a station playing music that was close to 40 years old in 1959 to TOP 40. I thought that really cool back then. Who needed big bands when we had Buddy Holly on the radio. I for one can't complain or I'd be a hypocrite.
 
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.
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If you had truly spoken with them, you would know it will not be a reunion as literally few to none of the fired personnel plan to be there.

Takes at least several people who worked there to have a reunion.
 
Kabrich said:
If you had truly spoken with them, you would know it will not be a reunion as literally few to none of the fired personnel plan to be there.
Takes at least several people who worked there to have a reunion.
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The correct answer is: at least FIVE of the fired personnel WERE there today (I was only there for the second half). And I saw at least three others who either quit or were fired in an earlier round of layoffs. That makes at least EIGHT, which may qualify as a reunion, so I'm afraid "literally few to none" is INCORRECT. ::)

But thanks for playing our game. You will not be receiving any of our fine consolation prizes.
 
MsMusicRadio said:
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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Probably just a jukebox (iPod) with a morning show.
 
about 200 people showing up makes it a bit more than a non event...check out how many people show up at a radio station remote with on air assist...it's more like maybe 25 to 50 that show up...that's a non event, and they do it every week.
 
Calm down jobless, your spin room for talentless ex-radio personalities is ready to take off. Let's get together to share a wing bone and a tear. See you at the next sad rally.
 
NAME ME ONE TIME WHERE FIRED RADIO PERSONALITES HAD A "RALLY" IN THEIR HONOR - A CHANCE FOR THEIR FANS TO SHOW THEIR APPRECIATION AND LOVE. ALL THAT WERE THERE HAD A GOOD TIME. TOO BAD YOU MISSED IT - BUT THEN MAYBE THAT'S A GOOD THING.
 
I would fire any employee that went to such a thing too. If these guys are so great, they will find work. But they are washed up hacks, so they resort to this nonsense, gimme a break.
 
All I will say is that as an employee of WRBQ, I was never told that anyone would be fired for attending the "rally". I have spoken to several people at the office (non-WRBQ staff) who also had not been told that either.
 
Note to Moderator: Any chance this thread could be locked?

Enough already. Dozens of us in the Bay Area have been bounced, canned,fired, laid off, sacked, termed, or our leaders have "decided to go in a different direction", and we never got so much as a post card.

Not that any of us deserved it, mind you.

The last incarnation of the Q was nothing more than a watered down rehash of once was a notable radio station.

Please. Put it to bed. Between this and some yahoo stating his company wants to duplicate WDUV....and so of course, he trolls a message board for "new" ideas on how to do it, well....its pretty pathetic.
 
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