Today is Red Tuesday for Clear Channel..

[Reporter]

In business, being in the red is not good, hence the reason for Red Tuesday. Some people today, 7% of the Clear Channel work force will know today they are being let go. How many from the Albany CC we don't know as of yet. But good luck to you in tyour future endeavors.

I figure by 12 noon we will know, or possibly by 5 PM. If it were me, I would want to know ASAP.

On the other side, what about Albany Broadcasting??? Will the same happen over there??

I recently saw a salesman over the weekend who worked there a long time. Not only did he not a nice words for ABC, but he looks 10 years younger! Great guy to boot..

 

[Clearance Channel]

The festivities should be getting underway with in the next couple of hours. Perhaps some one can provide us with a body count later today...Let the games begin!!!!

 

[hellno]

I'm glad you enjoy wallowing in other people's pain, especially with the fiscal situation our country is in. You're a ghoul.

 

[AxelM]

Yesterday was not the end to the CC scorched earth fiscal policy, but only the beginning. Those who didn’t get the guillotine shouldn’t think they’ve avoided being cut. Things will certainly get much worse as more layoffs in every business beget less money spent in the stores and further dwindling of ad dollars to media outlets.

Then there’s the gluttonous debt that these monopolistic media pigs heaped on their backs as they looted, trashed and burned broadcasting leaving nothing but junk in their wake. The Mays will be back and the cash intensive local news talker with it’s more than half million dollar payroll will stand out like a naked Eskimo in the dead of winter. Normally I’d advise these AM optimists to start updating their resumes but alas there’s nothing left out here but the echo of your laughter as we all got the ax. We “ghouls” look forward to seeing you soon.

 

[Johnny_45]

Scorched earth is right! The fact that one company can own so many stations in one market, yet offer such little intelligence and diversity in programming, is an indictment not only of the lax licensing standards of the FCC but of the corporate policies of Clear Channel. People are voting with their ears and these job losses are one of the results. Minor ariations on the same pop/rock music format with extremely limited playlists, an “angry white male” news talk format that is totally dedicated to only one narrow point of view, and a sports talk format that relies almost entirely on non-local hosts and topics is all much less than it what it should or could be.

 

[MJQ]

Two sentences from The Times Union says it all:

Kristen Delaney, general manager of the area’s Clear Channel stations, did not return a phone call seeking comment. John Cooper, operations manager for the stations, referred questions to Delaney.

How fitting to have such leaders in charge of the Alamo!

 

[Reporter]

Two sentences from The Times Union says it all:

Kristen Delaney, general manager of the area’s Clear Channel stations, did not return a phone call seeking comment. John Cooper, operations manager for the stations, referred questions to Delaney.

How fitting to have such leaders in charge of the Alamo!

Kristen's the boss and Coop knows not to step on toes. Simple, and respectfully.

 

[Johnny_45]

Two sentences from The Times Union says it all:

Kristen Delaney, general manager of the area’s Clear Channel stations, did not return a phone call seeking comment. John Cooper, operations manager for the stations, referred questions to Delaney.

How fitting to have such leaders in charge of the Alamo!

Kristen's the boss and Coop knows not to step on toes. Simple, and respectfully.

NEVERTHELESS, word will eventually trickle down. WGY, the old AM 50 KW giant is a shadow of its onetime proud self.

Cheap Channel took a venerable station and turned it into an ad factory with a format an eager 15 year old could best.

Couple an endless stream of spots (7 at a clip) (masquerading as public service announcements), to ubiquitous canned local news in the off hours and you end up with ersatz radio.

 

[bill5461]

You guys shouldn't take so much pride in this. Someday there will be cuts like this in the Burger Industry.

 

[AxelM]

Written like a true small market newsman and a cocky one at that. “Someday there will be cuts like this in the Burger Industry.” What are you implying wee Willie? That everyone that’s been let go in radio was chopped meat anyway? That the ones left are the real and talented broadcasters? Seems to me the only ones taking pride in anything are the goons who are carrying out the orders and the survivors who hide behind the bosses skirts. Fear not your time will come. Until then hold the pickle wee Willie and brush up on some humility; you’ll need it.

 

[AxelM]

How many of you who post to this site have had your professional face rubbed in the dirt by the powers that be? You do the work of 5 people on 6 stations and it’s never enough. You are paid squat and treated like crap. Wal-Mart could take a lesson from Radio. We all look down our noses at the Wal-Mart clerks and yet we are no better off then they are. The frequency or owner doesn’t really matter; they all treat “talent” like garbage unless you’re one of the golden ones who sell out their co-workers to retain their jobs. Consider this from CC CEO of Radio John Hogan:
Clear Channel will benefit from a "flight to quality" by advertisers: "In recessions, there is a flight to quality by advertisers, and Clear Channel Radio offers the highest quality by any measure."

A PRIME EXAMPLE OF CLEAR CHANNEL’S “QUALITY” From Radio-Info:
Names "over the intercom" & "police at the door" - inside Clear Channel's "Black Tuesday"
A day after 1,850 employees were handed pink slips at Clear Channel, details are emerging on how different offices handed the mass layoffs. According to Tom Taylor’s “Taylor on Radio-Info,” at Clear Channel’s cluster in Greenville-Spartanburg , South Carolina , names were called out over the office intercom. In Tucson, “management stationed a police officer outside the building to watch, as people were shown out of the facility and into the parking lot.” Taylor writes, “Some T-R-I readers say Clear Channel took measures to keep ex-employees from being able to get at station websites. In fact, all personalities were apparently unable to access their web pages yesterday morning.” In another case, says Taylor, “Fired staffers were told their stuff would be shipped to them and they shouldn’t stop to say goodbye to co-workers as they were escorted from the building.”
One poster to this site hit the nail on the head by stating that “The fact that one company can own so many stations in one market, yet offer such little intelligence and diversity in programming, is an indictment…of the lax licensing standards…”

So now is the time. We have a new FCC Chair. If you like the way Radio has been treating you lately DO NOTHING! But if you are tired of being paid less than an illegal alien put the full court press to Obama’s administration and demand change. You all dis the Fairness Doctrine because it’s what your corporate masters want. Since when have they had your economic interest at heart? Ignore this at your own demise and we’ll soon see you on checkout 7 at Wal-Mart where you like BB can wait on your former employees.