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Tony Thomas

It's gotta be tough for you watching all your friends ceremoniously leave that building. From the outside, it's so hard to watch corporate dweebs dismantle in a span of weeks what took years and years to develop. This is disheartening --- all the CBS people I like are being given an involuntary career setback and it's painful to watch.
 
Just announced that Cornbread the afternoon guy will seg to Middays and the new Afternoon guy is Pat Garrett who was just recently the PD at KUBL in Salt Lake.
 
Sad. Flo was let go not too long ago, and now Tony!?! The Seattle spirit at KMPS is really going down. But very few mainstream people care about DJs anymore. They don't care if it's voice-tracked, or heck, even automated. They only care about the music, and the stations care about the $$$ from 10-minute commercial breaks.

-crainbebo
 
And of course it's a classy station that has a midday guy named "Cornbread". I'm sure it's just me but if I were an artist being interviewed by KMPS - on the phone or a station visit - there is no way on earth I'm referring to anyone as "Cornbread" or "Wingnut" or any other childish nickname. It also plays on the country stereotype of Gomer Pyle, Otis, etc. They may be fine talents but in just the name factor, KMPS is sliding. They are on the way to either a format change or accepting their increasing non-relevance.

Tony is a good guy, a class act. Along with many others, I wish him the best. He did nothing wrong but radio as an industry has trouble doing things right ...
 
crainbebo said:
But very few mainstream people care about DJs anymore. They don't care if it's voice-tracked, or heck, even automated. They only care about the music, and the stations care about the $$$ from 10-minute commercial breaks.

-crainbebo
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perhaps its up to the competing market stations with live talent to educate the listeners that "we are live, they is voice tracked, and/or hal the computer controlled". the new younger generation that you all key demographic chasers chase, may not even care no more! then again, if i(a mid 40's ol' boy) was given the choice of listening to some young wing nut jive at a wolf channel play speeded up pop country, or no announcer at brand X, play speeded up pop country. id take the brand X, and plug my ears up.
 
This is the same thing that happened at KUPL Portland when Alpha came
aboard with Scott Mahalick, all the old guard were let go. Same thing
with Ed Hill who is Mahalicks protege' - Letting all the old CBS guard
go and hiring his staff from KUBL SLC.
 
It's [i]radio, folks. They want young. Nobody retires in radio. If you get 20 years in at a place you done good.
 
Try telling that to Kirby Wilbur or Brian Suits or a string of people in and out of KOMO Radio. Unfortunately in our business kent and alan and maybe bob rivers are the exception not the rule no matter what company you work for these days. Sad to see Tony Thomas go. Not a big country listener but found him easy to listen to. Course as a guy that just turned fourty I may be out of the radio demo too.
 
I think Kirby and Suits are the exception at Fisher. A lot of old dead wood over there. Someone needs to inject a spark in that place.
 
Yeah, they only have a couple of the top billing radio stations in the market. You're up for post of the year!! Fisher only has three stations. To get any ratings out of a AM is a feat. Only three do.
Komo, Kjr, and Kiro. Fisher needs a couple more Fm's, then they could fire more peps like the other corporations! There are many FM's underperforming...
 
We didn't even make two weeks into the year before radio info is calling for the firing of Kent and Alan or Bob Rivers because they are "dead wood." The dead wood kent, alan, bob shows consistently ranked in the top 5 25-54. Bob Rivers ranked number 3 25-54 adults, number 3 25-54 women and number three 25-54 men on the rolling average for the entire year. Time to get rid of them all.

For the record. for the entire year morning rolling average BJ Shea was number one in men 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54. He was also number one 25-54 adults. Kent and Alan were number one in women 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 for the one year rolling average. KOMO in mornings were number one 6+ with KIRO second 6+ in morning drive on the full year rolling average. ( Jan-Dec 2011)

All we need is for someone to call for the firing of FITZ (who was the number one country show in Seattle) and the year will be complete. I bet these shows are laughing all the way to bank, if they bother to even read these posts.
 
If it's any comfort, KUBL is a damn good station. Ed Hill took a market with way too much country (five FM stations, at one point) and still managed to make K-Bull 93 one of the hottest, live and local-ist, top billing station in the Salt Lake market.

I truly believe he'll do very good work for KMPS ... if CBS lets him. Knowing CBS, I'm not completely confident.
 
The "dead wood" comment had nothing to do with Kent and Alan or Bob Rivers. There is a culture of mediocrity at Fisher when it comes to radio because it plays second fiddle to TV over there. KOMO Radio is managed by TV people who use it as a dumping ground for their TV product. With some new blood and an invigorated attitude they could be kicking ass.
 
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