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ROUND TWO OF ENTERCOM'S AXE SWINGING

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duckie76

Guest
VP/GM Chris Claus
WWL Morning Sports Anchor/Saints Sideline Reporter Gus Kattengell
Entercom Production person Chris Carroll

Anyone want to invest in some radio stations, bet someone is going to be having a red hot fire sale soon.
 
Entercum.

So who's gonna run the ship without Santa Claus? Yeah, blame him for D. Feel's' greed. Soon D. Feels will be using John Wayne toilet paper and his BMW that he boasted about to his underpaid hirelings (unmitigated balls to do so to begin with) will be on the repo lot. The chickens are coming home to roost. Make Holt the new GM. He'll work for nothing and do a nothing job, as usual and you never have to worry about him having wedding or childbirth leave because no woman would touch him.

And Gus, saving what, $10k a year? Burn, Entercum, Burn. You have no idea how much fun it is watching you crash. The big crash will be here before New Year's. Burn.

Maybe tired out production voice clown Steve St. Junk can run the ship with his tired out and boring schtick.

D, put the old lady on the street. 10-15 tricks a night will pay your food bills a year from now if anyone wants to touch the skank.

Burn, Entercum, Burn.
 
The arrogant, highly overpaid and totally worthless David Cone is the deadwood they should have cut.
 
Claus? I thought he was still there.
Are you sure, Duckie?
Latenite, what year did Entercom fire you?
 
KSW and Bayouwaves, you two make me laugh. Keep up the humor to go along with your vivid imaginations and clown suits. Especially KSW. No one has ever fired me from anything. Never. I just grew up with good 70's and 80's radio see things how bad they are today. Wake up and smell the crap on the radio.
 
i LOVE the programming of radio today.........dont you?
its so great and wonderful! agreed that it is pure monotonous crap!!!!!!!! i wait for the day when radio returns to a medium with a better reputation. we gonna have to sit back and wait............................. sawtooth
 
Latenite, I get it now. yours is just a pure, honest, natural dislike of these people.

How sweet.
So. You personally distain some of these people purely because of your passion for the "good old days."
No other reason.
Awwww, that's so nice.

But it's just that you know so much "inside" stuff...

And thanks, I will keep the humor... but I lost the clown suit in Katrina! That said, the Jester outfit fits nicely!

OK. End of my playtime. Latenite. I await your brilliant retort.

I have a sincere question.

As much as "consolidation in radio" sucked for people and their families who got "booted" in the name of "economies of scale," why do the small, privately owned stations fare so poorly in New Orleans?
I'm serious.
And don't tell me that the big companies "have all the money," or "people are stupid," and all that stuff.
Those are trite, simplistic answers. It has to be deeper than that, huh?

It seems, as sad as it is, that the big companies, based on ratings are "serving the public (yikes, kinda hard to even type,)" and isn't that what they are supposed to do, even though almost all on these boards think that most of the products they serve up are mediocre?

It's seems pretty obvious that the vast preponderance of you agree that you don’t like Entercom, CC, Citadel, or their people, but if they are such bad operators (and I’m not saying they are or aren’t, I don’t know enough to determine that,) how can they still sit atop the ratings charts?

I genuinely do not understand the reason for this seeming contradiction.

I would think that stations like WIST, WGSO, WTIX-FM, etc would excel in a "unique" market like ours (and others) because one would think they are so "local" and are tapped into the “people” of this city because they are the people of this city.
Yet that is not the case at all. To me these 3 stations are not listen able. And their poor performance would suggest that the public agrees.

I know the big companies” bought legacy brands back in the ‘90‘s, but after all these years, shouldn’t , by now, the public have voted with their “diaries” for the locally owned stations?

One other thing, aren’t MOST of the people who work at the 3 “loathsome” companies also from New Orleans or Louisiana who live here and have families and are part of our communities?

Help. I honestly don’t know enough about the business to understand this conundrum.
The only thing I can come up with is that the folks here who hate these companies sooo much have an axe to grind.

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And to think Tommy Tucker and his pompous ego is still employed, go figure. Put that Rev. David Terrell from Texarkana on in his place. At least it would be revenue.
 
"I would think that stations like WIST, WGSO, WTIX-FM, etc would excel in a "unique" market like ours (and others) because one would think they are so "local" and are tapped into the “people” of this city because they are the people of this city."

In the old days, New Orleans radio did not sound like any other market. The old WTIX, WSMB, and WWL really did sound like the city, but also sounded like first class big market radio.

The stations you mention just don't come across as sounding professional and/or have signal issues that keep them from performing well in the ratings. I love the unique WTIX-FM music mix but the voice tracking really limits the personality of the station. If they'd let Bobby Reno, Hot Rod etc. open up a little bit more, they'd sound pretty good.

Speaking of voice tracking, I like the country oldies show on WNOE on Saturday nights which is voice tracked I think out of Mobile. But twice a couple of weeks ago, the tracking missed up and the dj introduced the wrong songs and at one point a Disturbed track came on in the middle of Ronnie Milsap and George Jones. I thought how this kind of unprofessionalism would have never happened at WNOE in the past.

If I had a billion dollars, I'd buy one of the big FMs and hand it over to Bob Walker who I bet would put on the best sounding oldies/classic hits station in the country.
 
Sorry to hear about Gus. I gotta call yesterday about it and it sucks to see it happen to a nice kid. Maybe they’ll bring him back for the Saints games. I got wacked by Entercom after 13 years so I know how he feels. Well, maybe not because I was relieved after it happened to me. My guess, he didn’t know it was coming.

And KSW, let me take a crack at your post. You can thank Billy Tauzin for the state of corporate radio and yeah, it would be nice to see the locally owned ones do well, except for Costello. They don’t have the deep pockets or the chance at the advertising dollars, so the big guys “do have all the money”. Hence, no money to improve their signals (pocketed most of the insurance money from the storm, hmmm?), equipment or talent. And the ratings prove the product isn’t what the folks want. Face it, WIST or WGSO won’t ever be in the same ball park as WRNO or WWL and if you can’t hear ‘em and nobody’s listening, why advertise on ‘em? You pretty much nailed it with those three.

The last owner that was tapped into being “local” was Ed Muniz. That was the last time I truly had fun on the radio and he let us. I think Fatboy (Don Banks), Walker, Cherie and even Bo Walker would agree with that. Corporate got their fingers on it; they lost touch with the people. It wasn’t necessarily management here but the suits in Bumf*#k who’s word on radio was scripture. We would just shake your head and say whatever. There was nothing as a jock you could do but be replaced. All I ever heard on the streets was why do you y’all play the same old songs? I just give the time. And when I was told Frankie Ford didn’t test well here in New Orleans, I like to had lost it. The listener suffered and now, the shareholders.

Today, there are too many other avenues to get what you want. I drove to Dallas and back last weekend, 17 and half hours. Loaded my mp3 player and never repeated a song the entire time. Had no interest in turning on the radio because what you hear here is the same in all the way up. Name me one station that would do that these days? It’s all focus groups and consultants. Play the safe list and nothing from the gut.

Finally, there’s “stupid people”. Did you mean in radio or listeners? I enjoyed working with everybody over the years but three and Costello is one of them (the other two know who they are). He’s a freakin’ idiot but put me in the same category because I didn’t think he could be “that” bad when I went to work there. WRONG. All he talked about was WABC and how TIX-AM was molded after them. Freakin’ obsessed with it, every conversation. He claimed to know more about the history than those who lived it. Bottom line, it was conceived by Todd Storz and a guy named McClendon who had something to do with WNOE, married Mr. Noe’s daughter or something like that. They are credited for creating the top 40 format way back. Not WABC. You’d never know that talking to meatball. His line of BS is sooo long, he could hang his laundry on it. Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but Costello abuse the privilege.

Good luck Gus. At least you got a free trip to London out of the deal. I had to pay for mine. Lotsa time, let’s go ride!

-Blair off the air

PS...Smashed CD, still enjoy your KSMB tunes on Slacker..thanks
 
Blair.
Thanks.
That sounds like a pretty good 'splainin' to me.
 
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