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Remember those HJY rumors?

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Yup. The website is a little less crowded now. Brangiforte is gone. Charles is on for the afternoon show solo. Q&C are gone too. Oh by gosh by golly it's time for more Clear Channel folly.
 
People wonder why I have a such a sour attitude towards Radio stations. For the second year in a row you are seeing the very reason why. YOU'RE FIRED. MERRY EFFIN CHRISTMAS!!!
 
Last year at this time it was Doug Palmieri, Michelle Maker and Joan Edwardsen. I forget who was let go this time in 2005. In 2004 it was Big John and Cruisin' Bruce.

Merry effing Christmas indeed.

So who gets the ax this time in 2008 (since trends indicate it will happen again)? Anyone want to guess? How soon before it's just Lariv and the Troll?

What's happening is just downright sad.

The most fun I had in radio was when I was at B101, ownership notwithstanding. I miss that station a lot, but even if I could go back today, it wouldn't be the same... so what's the point?
 
jeffryan said:
Kind of ironic what Quinn & Cantera's page has been replaced with:

http://www.whjy.com/pages/quinn_cantara.html

Edit: Just in case it's taken down, it's a picture of a tree with money growing out of it saying, "Plant your career with us... where money does grow on trees!"
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hahaha. That's kind of funny... but incredibly inaccurate. If Money grew on trees than the company wouldn't be busy firing people every year.

They should put up an ad that says:

"Plant your career with us and watch your tree get chopped down by next Christmas."
 
Mess too much with HJY and you've got a problem other than the fact that there's nowhere else to go but Boston and Ipods for mainstream rock. HJY is solid musically but nothing you wouldn't hear anywhere else at a station with a similar format. Screw around with the morning show or the afternoon show and you end up with a rocker that doesn't sound much different than that average rocker in New Hampshire. Sorry but it's the truth. Maybe they think they can go the PRO-FM route and live off their past and maybe they can because of lack of competition. Maybe they think because they survived what happened at B101 they can survive anything. They're more than a station . They're an attitude. You don't maintain the attitude forever unless you keep the people who helped to build it. Granted they're guilty of believing their own press too much but I still think CC has to tread carefully with this one.
 
Clear Channel does not care anything about attitude. They care the most about having few employees. And having
them do more. WHJY is not immune. Neither is WWBB/WSNE/WHJJ. Just look at the whole Bina/Palmer situation.
Its cheaper for Ed McMann to track 5 stations.Than to pay Bina his salary to jock only 1 station. Same with Amy
replacing Bruce. And obviously, having Kristin track WSNE makes financial sense in the eyes of CC as well.
When CC finally decides what to do with WSNE. And if a change in format happens. And Rick Everett is still PD.
The current WSNE morning show. Will move over to WWBB.
 
Skynet74 said:
This really is a company wide lynching. I just came from the Los Angeles board and the situation is just as ugly there. 20 people just got fired. Check out the thread. Black Friday in Burbank. This is very bad.

http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,86871.0.html#top
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This is what happens when you answer to stockholders and the same will be seen by Citadel (I think already had a taste of it down at Q105). Not filling a night time gig w/ a perm host in Providence at Pro, what has happened at Fun 107 all seem to be telling.
 
decepticon said:
I've heard that Amy hagan is outt, Amy from the coast show is out and others got hit too. Not sure who.
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on friday afternoon tom st. john was on from 3-7... but i cant remember if he said he was filling in for amy or not....... it seems like when ever someone get the boot over there.... tom is the one to fill the shues till a replacment is found
 
I hear mid-days on WJHY will be voice tracked now. And don't forget they cut Brangiforte and made his on air position part time. These changes, plus Quinn and Cantara, make the morning show the only thing left alone.

At this point, Clear Channel must be at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to companies you want to work for. Pretty sad.
 
It's corporate America & you won't escape it even if you get out of radio. The inmates are running the asylum everywhere. And you don't get out of radio until you're ready & by that I mean you don't mind waking up to not be on the air that day. There was no bottom of the barrel pre-consolidation & there's none now. If it's what you do, then you do it until you're ready. I've worked at places where people got let go but at least management had the autonomy to decide when it was going to happen & had the decency to wait until after certain events like the holidays.
 
Time must be ticking down for Charles as well. No offense to him, but he's stranger than ever, and without the Troll & Laurenti, the show has been lacking for years now.

I'm surprised they didn't bump Q & C to PM drive and VT Doug at night.
 
BoredModerator said:
Time must be ticking down for Charles as well. No offense to him, but he's stranger than ever, and without the Troll & Laurenti, the show has been lacking for years now.
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Charles doesn't get the credit he deserves. Back when he was on WPRO he was hilarious. He was the local Howard Stern. But obviously WPRO was not looking to be the next WNBC (circa 1984). It's to bad because it was probably the most fun the station has ever been. Charles is a very funny guy when you give him the freedom to be who he really is. HJY should team him up with a woman and give him the morning slot. It would easily be the best morning show in town.
 
I think Charles is still effective.Cohosts have always been straight men.He needs somebody to reign him in rather than interact that much.Still I do believe he's approaching that point where his time has come and gone and I doubt that he cares as much as others who still have a distorted view of radio's future.

I also cannot understand why people jumped from Hall Radio to Clear Channel a year ago.Loyalty to Rick Everett?This is probably his last programming job at his age and given the present radio climate unless he is willing to leave RI or stays with Clear Channel and gets moved around.Money?How much more could they be making?Two of the ones who went to the other part of the building were actually program directors(Rick Everett and Tad Lemire).Bad moves.
 
decepticon said:
I've heard that Amy hagan is outt, Amy from the coast show is out and others got hit too. Not sure who.
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Amy Hagan was still on the B101 website over weekend, but now she's gone. I guess what you heard is now confirmed.

Unbelievable.
 
Just for the sake of commenting, in case you haven't noticed, corporate radio (and these days, all radio is corporate, regardless of ownership) is hell bent on making "personalities" interchangeable. Plug and play, and the station stays pretty much the same. Personality, as a commodity, is an expensive choice when, instead, you can lift, say, "Smith and Wesson" and drop in "Jones and Donna" and basically the station stays the same. Listener loyalty has long been considered non-existant, so once a jock of team has settled in and is eligible for pay increases or company benefits, it becomes a simple matter of economics to move them along and bring in a less expensive plug and play and listeners will become accustomed to them quickly since they are basically just a less expensive but similar option to what was already there. Tough on listeners and career radio performers; rather effective for the bottom line. That, in a nutshell, is the rationale.
 
bernzee said:
Just for the sake of commenting, in case you haven't noticed, corporate radio (and these days, all radio is corporate, regardless of ownership) is hell bent on making "personalities" interchangeable. Plug and play, and the station stays pretty much the same. Personality, as a commodity, is an expensive choice when, instead, you can lift, say, "Smith and Wesson" and drop in "Jones and Donna" and basically the station stays the same. Listener loyalty has long been considered non-existant, so once a jock of team has settled in and is eligible for pay increases or company benefits, it becomes a simple matter of economics to move them along and bring in a less expensive plug and play and listeners will become accustomed to them quickly since they are basically just a less expensive but similar option to what was already there. Tough on listeners and career radio performers; rather effective for the bottom line. That, in a nutshell, is the rationale.
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Raises? In radio? I call shenanigans. No such thing as a raise in the radio industry. Especially for "expendable" talent.
 
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