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Ray D. Oh

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They seem to be pretty busy in the Fort. The new Champ lineup has Rich Haskell and Mary Cenci--they call it the Morning Mess--replacing Corm & Coach. Steve Cormier is 10-2. The old producer of AM Drive Carolyn Lloyd is 2-7 and syndicated Alice Cooper at night. They are even voicing (I assume no one is live) the overnights now. I've also noticed a new station voice and they are now just saying 101.3 most of the time and ignoring the 102.1. Are changes in the wind for WCVR? I hear some Star changes too with Lana and Nolan now off at 9. Mary Williams is 9-2 and Jenn Fox is 2-7 with Delilah at night still. Looks like Star dumped Tesh? Well, they are back to a local daytime lineup now which is a change for the good. I see they also added a Saturday Night All Request Show (a local one!) on Star with Ken Cruise? Who is that? Overall, I'd say quite a few positives. Those stations needed some new blood.
 
What? THE Mary Williams is at Star? Now they have two former 95 Triple X production directors in that building. It's like a Burlington radio all-star team over there. Interesting times indeed.
 
BUMP

New logo for Champ is on their homepage (which still has the CC template!): http://www.champrocks.com

I like the guitar and lightning bolt, but I really don't care for the color scheme change. It's CHAMP. It's gotta be green and blue. Same mistake the Wizard made.
 
I've heard from several people who worked for VOX in the past (Great Barrington, MA and Harrisonburg, VA) that not only is VOX as cheap as can be, they really overwork their folks.
 
Will said:
The employees are overworked, and yet people choose to continue to work. That's an odd indictment.
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not always ture, the folks I spoke to left.. in large part because of what I mentioned.. overworked, underpaid and the company doesnt spend money.
 
Overworked and underpaid describes most Radio (and other) employees.
They "choose to continue to work" because they need their job like anyone else. It's not a choice, it's making sure you can pay the rent.


Will said:
The employees are overworked, and yet people choose to continue to work. That's an odd indictment.
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NHRadio said:
Overworked and underpaid describes most Radio (and other) employees.
They "choose to continue to work" because they need their job like anyone else. It's not a choice, it's making sure you can pay the rent.


Will said:
The employees are overworked, and yet people choose to continue to work. That's an odd indictment.
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Well siad NHRadio... there are those of us in radio who absolutely love what we do.. and it's sad the pay is so low sometimes, but you take the good with the bad.
 
RadioGuy seems to have a beef with Vox. I am told by people inside the building that they have added staff and local programming, added promotion budgets, purchased new station vehicles and given the whole place a morale boost. Doesn't sound like overworked, underpaid and not spending money to me. This is only my opinion but their products sound better than before. There seems to be some life back into them.
 
There's no need to rip on Vox, those stations are in very capable LOCAL hands.. There's so much bad news in the radio biz these days, what the Vox crew appears to be doing is all positive for the market.
 
If radio people had unions like craftsmen had, people would get paid a lot better. I read a story on the Atlanta board about a jock who made $135 a week who lost his job because somebody offered to do it for $130 a week. That's disgusting. Both the person who undercut the other guy and the manager who approved the deal are scumbags.

The "low pay" in radio happens because people continue to accept the jobs, to the detriment of others who want those jobs AND a decent wage to do them. The problem is that outside of major markets, there is no collective bargaining in radio like there is in other industries

There's a guy in the Boston area who shows up at non-union jobs and inflates a giant rat. I'd like to see him go to radio stations and do that.
 
"Overwork."
BS.
The only times I ever felt "overworked" at Vox was a couple times in Harrisonburg where people sold remotes without talking to each other, and I found myself out straight a lot. But there was always extra money for that.
Vox was the best outfit I ever worked for. No one ever took better care of me or "got" me better than Ken Barlow.
 
I've had a business relationship with Vox for the better part of the decade, and I'll attest that some of their operations have been excellent and some have been wretched. Vox sold our company some stations that turned out to be "diamonds in the rough"--that is, they were real rough when we got 'em but they turned out to be gems once we cleaned 'em up and started operating them like real radio stations.

In Burlington I think the most intriguing part of the acquisition is that they now own the only FM property in the market truly capable of whipping WOKO's ass. With due respect to WTNN's efforts, the signal is just not competitive enough to do much more than what they've already done--chip away a few of WOKO's monster shares (17 to 15?). But for way too long the rest of Burlington's broadcasters have just conceded the top spot in the market and fought for the #2 spot. WEZF can knock off WOKO, if Vox has the guts to go Country and go after them.

BTW, great job by Triple X in the Spring book. Double digits!
 
Re; If radio people had unions like craftsmen had, people would get paid a lot better. I read a story on the Atlanta board about a jock who made $135 a week who lost his job because somebody offered to do it for $130 a week.



Then, why not talk with a union and see what's up?
 
To give a more specific answer to Mary (this board really sucks for editing/deleting posts), I guarantee you that any current radio employee in a non-AFTRA market that attempted to organize any labor alliance would be blackballed from the industry. Remember what happened to Curt Flood? He had to sacrifice his career to ensure that the baseball players who followed him wouldn't get such a meager cut of a team's revenue, or be told that they couldn't sign with another team for more money, as a capitalist society should be.

I've always been curious about labor union management. Maybe that'll be a career move someday.
 
Will:

On the old Manno and Condon show we once had an AFTRA organizer from out of Boston on as a guest. Our premise was that even though we were owners… We were concerned about the working conditions of our brother and sister broadcasters had to endure. We declared that even though we couldn’t participate in a union drive… we fully supported it and would be a proud union shop. That’s how you bust balls old school style.

Hmm. Perhaps that’s why I haven’t gotten any calls yet? Oh well …It still was pretty funny.

Louie
 
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