who got the CC bullet today???

[johnqdoe]

I saw the GSO Kiss PD, BA is out. Crash is out in Dallas, I assume he's out in GSO too....Rsndi West meanwhile is on the list of national PM Drive plug ins

 

[dittohead1]

I also heard that Marsh and Marko are out (Buzzard). I hate it for those guys and everybody nationwide who got it.

 

[trojan53]

Dick Harlow had a meeting this morning with all the sales staff. No one from Raleigh is on the chopping block. Misty Cox is going over to "The Rooster" for mid-day from KSL. I am not sure if she will still be on Kiss but she is also doing traffic and weather on all stations. It looks like they are done cleaning house in Raleigh, at least for the time being. Next big question now is what to do with Rooster and Kiss's ratings. I guess they can just keep throwing them in to G-105 and River deals as "added value".

 

[BIG APE]

Can anyone post a link to this story?

 

[BS1012]

Would someone please explain why G105 still has a live overnight jock and is live and local in all other weekday dayparts when CC is ripping apart almost all of their other stations? I mean even Z-100 has Seacrest. What makes WDCG so special? I mean nobody is going to complain of course, but ... why?

 

[iamdrunk]

Total of 8 out at CC Greensboro. Complete WMKS staff obliterated. BA, KJ, & Sheldon all let go. Complete WVBZ airstaff (except for Matt Pencola & Tim Satterfield) let go from WVBZ. Marcia Gan, Crash (both Dallas & GSO), Monica, & Marko let go. And from Creative Services, their Spanish spot producing person Giovanni.


I've heard that CC Charlotte, and CC Raleigh came away with zero casualties. But that was yesterday afternoon, that still holding true (for now)?

 

[VODood]

Would someone please explain why G105 still has a live overnight jock and is live and local in all other weekday dayparts when CC is ripping apart almost all of their other stations? I mean even Z-100 has Seacrest. What makes WDCG so special? I mean nobody is going to complain of course, but ... why?

Are you sure the jock is live?

Legally you have to have at least one person manning a station(s). So, why not have a jock, who can also then monitor the other stations.

 

[iamdrunk]

Would someone please explain why G105 still has a live overnight jock and is live and local in all other weekday dayparts when CC is ripping apart almost all of their other stations? I mean even Z-100 has Seacrest. What makes WDCG so special? I mean nobody is going to complain of course, but ... why?

Are you sure the jock is live?

Legally you have to have at least one person manning a station(s). So, why not have a jock, who can also then monitor the other stations.

Are you sure that legally someone has to be monitoring? Word on the street is that CC Greensboro has had no one in the building past 7pm for 8+ months now.

 

[MaxGM]

You absolutely DO NOT have to have someone at the station. That is not to say that you shouldn't. But smaller market stations have been mostly un-manned over-nights for decades.

 

[Christopher Chenn]

You absolutely DO NOT have to have someone at the station. That is not to say that you shouldn't. But smaller market stations have been mostly un-manned over-nights for decades.

Right. What VODOOD was thinking about is that a station has to have at least one full time employee. Period. In the case of a station which has quit trying and put all of it's air time to an LMA deal, it has to maintain one person on the original owners staff. That person has to be paid by the license owner not the group LMAing it. I believe that is the way it works. Anyone know different?

 

[Big Doug Metzenbaum]

Lots of good people lost their jobs today. I read on another message board that a morning show producer in another market was fired and the kind, gentle caring employers at Clear Channel escorted her to her car. As if being fired wasn't enough, they had to dehumanize the person.

How can I say this succinctly? Clear Channel is scum. They are lower than scum. They are the scum that scum scrapes off its shoes. The executives at CC are barely qualified to sell Hoover vacuum cleaners door to door, yet they are the ones in charge disrupting peoples' lives.

The entire Buzzard airstaff--gone, in one fell swoop. Why? So Clear Jazeera can voice track the PM drive show from some drone in Keokuk, Iowa and make it sound "local."

This will not stand. There will be retribution. There will be Armageddon. There will be blood on the freaking moon. Some day, and it won't be long, the slime that perpetrated this obscenity will be held accountable and folks, it will not be pretty.

 

[CCAlumni]

Beeee...Deeee...Emmmm has spoken! Amen brother.

 

[trojan53]

G-105 is sort of live at night. Yes someone is there but it usually an intern from engineering. The overnight is tracked out, usually by Jason Thomas (new morning guy on Rooster). He took over when they broomed Keith Todd. It is tracked out, this I am sure of. The reason they put so much effort into G is quite simple. You don't want to shoot the cash cow. Now that Randi West has gone national, there are alot of eyes on G-105 in San Antonio. One thing is certain, no G-105, no Clear Channel Raleigh. The station brings in more revenue that the other 3 stations combined which explains why the GSM Myron Bethea pays little or no attention to anything but G-105

 

[DubbaDon]

Stations MUST employee at least one Full-Time employee as a condition of the license.
Stations MUST maintain their Public File in their city of license; but that could be in a library or even private office - as long it was accessible to the public during business hours.

The Station must be able to correct on-air issues within 3 hours.

It's possible that a station operate out of New York City (or any place) as long as they have the Public File locally available and they can access/control the transmitter. There literally nothing local required anymore....

And people wonder why Radio is dying.

 

[BS1012]

G-105 is sort of live at night. Yes someone is there but it usually an intern from engineering. The overnight is tracked out, usually by Jason Thomas (new morning guy on Rooster). He took over when they broomed Keith Todd. It is tracked out, this I am sure of. The reason they put so much effort into G is quite simple. You don't want to shoot the cash cow. Now that Randi West has gone national, there are alot of eyes on G-105 in San Antonio. One thing is certain, no G-105, no Clear Channel Raleigh. The station brings in more revenue that the other 3 stations combined which explains why the GSM Myron Bethea pays little or no attention to anything but G-105

Okay; thanks for clearing that up. I had G on a couple of months ago between 12:00 and 2:00 in the morning, and the overnight guy seemed fairly interactive, taking calls, giving out the number, asking questions of listeners .... ETC ETC. didn't seem tracked to me, though I never listen long an really wouldn't know. Had them on three nights ago for about fifteen minutes and heard the same guy commenting on American Idol.

Randi West has always seemed like a very strong local personality -- lots of local references, calls, weather updates, discussions about local events, ETC. Will she maintain her totally local show on G in the afternoons and track separate national shows for other stations, or go national and bland across the board? Didn't she used to track dozens of stations around the country a few years ago, including a couple in South Carolina? Is this the same type of thing?

 

[johnqdoe]

G-105 is sort of live at night. Yes someone is there but it usually an intern from engineering. The overnight is tracked out, usually by Jason Thomas (new morning guy on Rooster). He took over when they broomed Keith Todd. It is tracked out, this I am sure of. The reason they put so much effort into G is quite simple. You don't want to shoot the cash cow. Now that Randi West has gone national, there are alot of eyes on G-105 in San Antonio. One thing is certain, no G-105, no Clear Channel Raleigh. The station brings in more revenue that the other 3 stations combined which explains why the GSM Myron Bethea pays little or no attention to anything but G-105

Okay; thanks for clearing that up. I had G on a couple of months ago between 12:00 and 2:00 in the morning, and the overnight guy seemed fairly interactive, taking calls, giving out the number, asking questions of listeners .... ETC ETC. didn't seem tracked to me, though I never listen long an really wouldn't know. Had them on three nights ago for about fifteen minutes and heard the same guy commenting on American Idol.

Randi West has always seemed like a very strong local personality -- lots of local references, calls, weather updates, discussions about local events, ETC. Will she maintain her totally local show on G in the afternoons and track separate national shows for other stations, or go national and bland across the board? Didn't she used to track dozens of stations around the country a few years ago, including a couple in South Carolina? Is this the same type of thing?

There's gonna be no way to do ANY localization with the model CC is going to. VTing a few shows for individual markets is one thing...a blanket top 40 pm drive show is something else. Expect lots of American Idol chatter, TMZ type stuff, but no local info at all.

 

[dittohead1]

What if they VT, have ZERO connection to the local community, completely fake it...and the marketplace STILL doesn't punish them? What then?

 

[Christopher Chenn]

What if they VT, have ZERO connection to the local community, completely fake it...and the marketplace STILL doesn't punish them? What then?

It means Sirius-Xm has a better chance than ever. They were just a little ahead of their time.

 

[johnqdoe]

What if they VT, have ZERO connection to the local community, completely fake it...and the marketplace STILL doesn't punish them? What then?

it means they're cutting their own throats. These guys HAVE to know that this crap will never work. But please move forward with it CC. The sooner you fail, the sooner some of these stations will back in the hands of people that actually care about radio.

 

[johnqdoe]

What if they VT, have ZERO connection to the local community, completely fake it...and the marketplace STILL doesn't punish them? What then?

The sooner CC puts this sham on the airwaves, the sooner they will go away. It's a losing battle. They know it, we know it, the Bain guys know it....The sooner they go on with their business, the sooner CC crumbles, the sooner these stations are back in the hands of real broadcasters