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Spending party is over for privately-held TV station owners

jal41

jal41

Reports have surfaced that WSB-TV/Atlanta may be laying people off and making budget cutbacks. WSB-TV is owned by privately held Cox Enterprises, and has been lavishly spending money to send their anchors and reporters to all four corners of the world. (WSB Radio is under the publicly traded Cox Radio umbrella - they made a bunch of layoffs yesterday).

Privately-held owners like Cox (WSB-TV, WHIO-TV, KTVU, etc...) and Capital Broadcasting (WRAL-TV) have been immune from the pressures of the publicly-traded station owners to make cuts (why WRAL made an investment in HD in 2001). It looks like the TV advertising environment is worse than anyone thought for stations like WSB-TV to be making cuts.

Has any other station (private or public) made any announcements yet?
 
Last night I was talking to some good friends of mine who live in Roanoke, VA and they told me that their local WDBJ channel 7 has laid off some. Don't know who or what, just what they told me so I take it with a grain of salt. Then again back in the early 90's when the same station did laid some people off ( one of their former employees actually went to work for us ), WDBJ said nothing about layoffs so I guess there will always be some stations that do lay off but say, well nothing about it to the general public.

On the flip side of this...who is hiring? I belong to another site, this one about amusement parks. According to a message posted theresome 24 year old guy claims in their "off-topic section" that ALL of the Indianapolis TV stations are not only hiring new people but he himself had just received two offers, one from WRTV and another from WTHR and he has an interviews with both WISH and Fox 59 later on this week. All for master control/behind the scenes positions. I would post a link to his comments but since one has to be member of the website ( and approved by the webmaster ), not gonna bother. But lets just say that considering some of the other stuff this same guy had posted on a variety of subjects in the past ( such as him claiming that he is making $75K a year working at Kroger ), I put this in the "bull" column.
 
Well, Fox59 has a listing on their website for MCO. WISH has listings for and AVID editor and promotions manager. No such listings are posted at WTHR. WRTV has an opening for a newscast producer.
 
In Lansing,Michigan the ABC/CW combine WLAJ is in shall we say an interesting position...I shall explain:
Its MCO is based at WWMT the CBS affilaite station in Kalamazoo, while a control room and studio are kept in Lansing, now what makes this so interesting is that they have about 6 on air folks..trust me when I say that WLAJ is safe from cuts.

man ..thats insane!
 
Unlike WRAL, which is locally owned; or WSB, which
is owned by a company based in Atlanta, WDBJ is not
locally owned but is owned by Schurz Communications,
which also owns (last time I looked) WSBT South Bend, IN;
KYTV Springfield, MO; and WAGT Augusta, GA. Are these
stations also doing cutbacks?
 
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