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Tony Bristol

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jimmyone

After a long distinguished career, Tony Bristol has left the Trail for hopefully a position that appreciates his talent and expertise.
 
He's reaching out for his next opportunity on All Access so apparently he has nothing lined up. This truly is an end of an era on The Trail and it's too bad.
 
Now you got me to thinking, and remembering. Anybody know what ever happened to Joe Thomas and the Big Ange (The Round Mound of Pounds, Andy Jackson?).
 
Lew Dickey and the debt-ridden gang at Cumulus are laying off people all over the place. Gotta be a cost cutting move. Cumulus and Clear Channel are notorious for doing some massive house cleanings just before the end of the year to make the books look better. If you work for either of these two companies, I hope you have a plan B in place.
 
Wow. 2 things surprise me about this : One-that a long-timer like Tony is
no longer working at Pro. Two-that it's not creating more attention. Although
I've only had a few occasions to make his acquaintence, I found that he is
buttoned up, intelligent and diplomatic. I am confident that if he chooses,
we will find Tony beginning the next chapter of his successful career.
 
geesmith said:
Wow. 2 things surprise me about this : One-that a long-timer like Tony is
no longer working at Pro. Two-that it's not creating more attention.
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I think it's not creating more attention simply because these days less people are paying attention to radio in general.
 
Skynet74 said:
geesmith said:
Wow. 2 things surprise me about this : One-that a long-timer like Tony is
no longer working at Pro. Two-that it's not creating more attention.
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I think it's not creating more attention simply because these days less people are paying attention to radio in general.
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That and the fact that he didn't work at WSAR or WALE, which is what the majority of the posters here have an unnatural obsession with.
 
I think it didn't get much play because to those of us that work in the business, it wasn't much of a shock. The horror stories about Cumulus have turned out to be true, and the stories coming out of the former Citadel stations are worse than we ever could have imagined. All of the hate toward Clear Channel should really be directed toward Cumulus... what an awful company. Could you imagine running a cluster of the highest-rated stations in a top-50 market for well over 15 years, then having a new company come in and having them tell you that you now have NO SAY over any programming decisions, in particular any music choices?

Working for Cumulus is almost worse than not working in radio at all. I'm not surprised about anyone who jumps ship.
 
Digital reporter Dee DeQuattro is out of WPRO/WEAN-FM. She made the right move. Agree about the hate towards CC being redirected to Scumulus/Scumulouse/Cumulousy.
 
None of this is surprising to me. Radio is over as a viable business model. Finished. It's sad because a lot of us enjoyed working in it and listening to it, but the larger companies are spreading a cancer that the smaller ones will soon acquire. Awful business decisions, massive debts, failure to evolve, etc. All we can do now is remember the good times. I have many great memories from when I was working in Providence and Philadelphia. But that's the past. It's time to acknowledge radio's demise and move on to more fruitful pursuits. Audiences have left... there's no point in us sticking around, either.
 
jeffryan said:
Audiences have left... there's no point in us sticking around, either.
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People still like radio, but we just like it on our own terms now. No more calling a radio station to make a request and then waiting an hour hoping that they will play it. Go on youtube and you can hear any song you want in 5 seconds. Download it from itunes too. No need to be upset when your market doesn't carry your favorite talk show. There are 200 other cities that stream the show online. I have a tiny MP3 player that fits in the palm of my hand. I can fit 5,000 songs on it. People in cars have more options than ever. Sirius/XM, pandora, wi-fi and other services that I probably don't even know about. Radio hasn't died... but the way we used to listen to it certainly has.

Any station with a music format definitely has it's days numbered. You can hear the same music in a thousand other places. You better be doing something amazingly original and groundbreaking if you expect people to stay loyal to your station and not just go somewhere else where they can hear the exact same thing.

News / talk / sports stations definitely have an advantage these days. These are the most valuable formats. Stations that provide up to the minute info and breaking news in your town. LIVE content is where it's at. You can hear "Hotel California" any damn time you want from any place. However when buildings are blowing up in your city or there is a hostage situation of some sort, there is no other place to go than local media. News/talk radio will live on for years and years to come.
 
You're right...for breaking local news, your local news/talker is the ideal outlet...professionals
uncovering and quickly delivering accurate news......except...
it costs so much to operate a real live local newsie, that most stations that call themselves
news/talk are 90 percent off the bird...it's more cost effective...some stations don't even
have board-ops to babysit...they might hire one live personality in the afternoon--M-F...MAYBE.

I recall ten years ago, a pretty good sized earthquake hit my region...a big deal, actually for
a small market...too bad it happened on a sunday morning...we had to read about it in the
monday newspaper.

These days, we marvel at a wonderful job turned in by the one or two stations that interrupt
network programming to cover big breaking news...That used to bother me, but in reality, times
have changed...we can get live updates on a smartphone anywhere, anytime...the drawback ?
do you always trust the source of something you read on line ?

Radio saw this coming...the extra competition...instead of meeting the challenge
and adapting -- we chose to hide our head in the sand...
 
jeffryan said:
Lew Dickey and the debt-ridden gang at Cumulus are laying off people all over the place. Gotta be a cost cutting move. Cumulus and Clear Channel are notorious for doing some massive house cleanings just before the end of the year to make the books look better. If you work for either of these two companies, I hope you have a plan B in place.
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He left, not a cost cutting move. More of a tired of banging head against the wall move.
 
He left, not a cost cutting move. More of a tired of banging head against the wall move.
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I find that really suspicious considering a) his departure happened at the same time Cumulus laid off a large number of local market level management employees, b) Cumulus has no plans to replace him, and c) he's currently looking for new "opportunities".
 
Davey Morris has taken over programming PRO-FM along with programming HOT 106 & corporate programming duties. New Lite PD is Brian DeMay from WJBR, Wilmington, DE.
 
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