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WHUD 100.7 Drops Live/Local Evenings For John Tesh Show

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AllAccess has a brief article stating that Susan Browning has left the nearby Hudson Valley station. She will be replaced by the syndicated John Tesh show, which is seemingly on most adult contemporary stations in this area. I believe that Browning's show was the only live and local evening program on an AC station in the New York Metro. The article states she had been with WHUD for 12 years.
Another indication of the decline of radio.
 
Harvey_Dogg said:
Cost cutting can burn a business in the long run.
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This is a reflection of how bad the economy really is. We saw yesterday that America's highest billing station is making cutbacks, and saying that, while the economy seemed to be recovering last year, it is now worse than 2020.

When there is an economic turrndown where advertisers stop buying, radio has no alternative but to cut expenses.
 
DavidEduardo said:
This is a reflection of how bad the economy really is. We saw yesterday that America's highest billing station is making cutbacks, and saying that, while the economy seemed to be recovering last year, it is now worse than 2020.

When there is an economic turrndown where advertisers stop buying, radio has no alternative but to cut expenses.
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Yip! Just pot up the bird and hope the listener's in the wealthy New York City' northern suburbs don't know it's now canned.
 
To be fair, AC is primarily a listen-at-work format where daytime hours are the priority and I think evenings typically drop off a cliff. The biggest surprise is that this station still had someone doing the evening show live, assuming she wasn't voicetracking it.
 
I don't think Susan Browning's numbers were the reason for this move.
 
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:cool: Here she is! Susan Browning letting you know the scoop. I have always been live in studio on WHUD since starting October 2010. Even during the worst of the pandemic when air talent was getting sick, they didn't allow any voice tracking and only ONE WHUD talent got to work from home. Almost all full-time staff was live in-person, sharing studios with added work and no extra $. I've tied with Delilah/NYC in my daypart in the past but it doesn't matter. There's always a flimsy reason not to give earned ratings bonuses, promised paid appearances, etc. When the station dropped Tesh 5 years ago and went live, I was chosen from weekends to full-time all-request nights. I loved my job...but Tesh is free. I am not. Onward and upward!
 
Awww, sorry to hear of Browning losing her gig. It wasn't long ago that WHUD still had a live overnight show as well. But I guess that ended a few years ago.

I don't think Tesh is bad. He gives interesting info and advice. It's brief, informative, and then back to the music. Much better than a station that just tracks songs, spots and promos during off hours.
 
Even though I never called in to Susan's show to request a song, it was nice to know that there was still a live program on at night that played listener requests. Seemed retro in a pleasant way.
Just a short while ago tonight, the host of the final nighttime show on Alt 92.3 remarked, "Live radio is becoming a thing of the past." That's probably also true for playing listener requests.
Sorry to hear that WHUD's owners did not come through with expected pay. My guess is that this is not so unusual in the radio biz.
I hope they don't make any cuts at sister station WXPK 107.1 The Peak.
 
MRBIboredop said:
wow from her above comment WHUD sounds like a crappy employer, stiffing people out of promised compesation
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Anyone who is in an "at will" job has nothing promised except payment for work rendered. The current status of the economy, particularly in advertising related fields, is such that companies have to make cuts to insure the survival of the company as a whole.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Anyone who is in an "at will" job has nothing promised except payment for work rendered. The current status of the economy, particularly in advertising related fields, is such that companies have to make cuts to insure the survival of the company as a whole.
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I think we all know that, David. We don't really need the executive on the board to recite the corporate line we've all heard before.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
I think we all know that, David. We don't really need the executive on the board to recite the corporate line we've all heard before.
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Remember, I was a station owner at age 18 so that I could do programming my own way. Over the years, I moved from owner in a smaller market to manager in a bigger one to programmer for a group. So in the end, my goal was to be involved totally at the listener level.

That said, no programmer is truly successful if the product they create can't be profitably sold to advertisers.

It's a business.

And if a business is threatened with a sour economy and overwhelming inflation, cuts have to be made. This is one example, made all the more clear when we understand that 7-Midnight, overnights and much of the weekend time is not where the money comes from.

In this case, the "corporate line" is actually "reality".
 
MRBIboredop said:
I hear Tesh down here in SW Florida and it is horrible radio IMHO
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Yabadabado1 said:
If radio in NYC is considered the upscale of top of the line car dealers, John Tesh would be a used Yugo at the back of the lot.
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Don CT said:
I didn't think his show still existed.
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Someone mentioned the "Men are from Venus......" quote above and IMO it's true with Tesh. I personally can't stand the show. He gives all these life hacks and tips and supposed useful information, and much of it to me is either straight BS or should be common sense to anyone...And it sounds like it's taken directly from a publication like Good Housekeeping or Reader's Digest.

That said, my sister-in-law who's smack dab in Tesh's key demo absolutely loves the show and finds all his advice and tips really helpful and interesting...So there ya go.
 
Mikey Radio said:
Someone mentioned the "Men are from Venus......" quote above and IMO it's true with Tesh. I personally can't stand the show. He gives all these life hacks and tips and supposed useful information, and much of it to me is either straight BS or should be common sense to anyone...And it sounds like it's taken directly from a publication like Good Housekeeping or Reader's Digest.

That said, my sister-in-law who's smack dab in Tesh's key demo absolutely loves the show and finds all his advice and tips really helpful and interesting...So there ya go.
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Men are from Mars, women from Venus. Mars being the god of war, Venus the goddess of love.
 
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