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Tuesday does not look like a good day at Granite Ridge

S

SDRadio

Stay Tuned.
 
From insiders I have spoken with, CC/SD could be a few Program Directors lighter on Tuesday. The cluster has 3 off-air PD's and 1 on-air PD, plus an off-air Operations Manager. You may also see a reduction of one local DJ per station as well...which for some of the stations would mean the morning show would be all that is left local. But don't forget CC's new commitment to locality! ;)

It begins with a trip to the LOCAL unemployment office.
 
The rumor I'm hearing is 1000 people companywide over the next two days. Get ready for "repeater radio" where you can carry the same song list from market to market. Centralized programming will be the norm with many of the same voices tracked in multiple markets. This should prove that John Hogan's "Less is more" theory is alive and well.
 
So how much empty cubicle space is there at CC's offices?

I hear their next plan is to downsize to a smaller building with just one studio: all the morning shows would use it based on a computer-generated "mike share" plan by which each station's morning team would take their turns at the mike while the other stations were running commercials, music or other pre-recordd material: for instance while KGB was running that little comedy bit in between NATIONAL BAS.......and.....KET BALL ASSOCIATION, the New Country 95.7 team would be using the mike to intro the traffic report and as soon as the traffic reported started someone from KOGO would get the mike to do their usual 10 seconds of news.
 
Bob_Hudson said:
..... their usual 10 seconds of news.
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You are too generous Bob. Seven seconds of local news is the norm; you know, the new local CCU local strategy.

By the time this is over, San Antonio and San Diego weather and traffic together on the sevens.
 
Radio & Records is reporting that Mike O'Brian, Linda Welby and morning show producer, Nikki French have all been let go...
 
More names you might not know who are out:

Jeremy (Sales Asst.)
Adri (Programming Asst.)
Rick Hill
Lupita Ramirez
Steve Smith (IT)
Alex Fajerman (IT)
Ron Foo (Engineering)

...and there are more...
 
The entire morning show at US 95.7 or presently known as New Country 95.7, Mike O'Brian, and Linda Welby. Lupita Rameriz at Clear Channel Traffic. Clint August and Robin Roth at Rock 105.3
 
Unconfirmed numbers are 30+, including the aforementioned folks. Additional casualties from Accounting, Traffic, (Program Logs, not vehicular), HR, Programming and Engineering.
 
Ron Foo!!!!!!!!!!!!that guy was very good at what he did.im going to miss him on the skyshow broadcasts.. :mad: :'(
 
Holy s??t!

I am so out of the loop.

Clear Channel let all those people go? Those were some really good people. Didn't Ron Foo do the engineering for Skyshow? Knowing him, he wrote down everything he did for the next poor bastard who has to do that thankless job. Met him once and he impressed me with his knowledge of, well, everything.

Rick Hill. Oh my god. That guy has been around for a million years. What a nice man. That is a shame too.

How many engineers do they have left?
 
There are 3 engineers for 10 stations! Holy crap. I remember the days of 1 engineer for each station. Seems the guys that run the place do not care if the place falls apart around them just as long as they are on the air... Those poor guy that are left are probably doing emeragency stuff only. No frills engineering.
 
fred1a said:
I remember the days of 1 engineer for each station.
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Maybe someone who worked at KCBQ back in the 60's through 80's can remember how many engineers we had there - it must have been at least four for that one station (and in 1980 that Top 40 station had five or six people in the news department which is pretty much more than CC has for all of its stations put together).

Granted computers, more efficient transmitter technology and automated remote transmitter monitoring makes things much different than were 20 or more years ago, so has IT taken over some of the jobs from engineers - if you have a problem in the control room do you call the Geek Squad now?
 
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