Is John Wilsbach on vacation? Took notice Monday and today that he is not on WNNK 104 but instead they have Dave Andrews in the morning doing CUMULUS Radio's new RIGHT NOW TRAFFIC. If they are no longer using John Wilsbach for traffic then we have lost the best traffic reports the Harrisburg area has ever had.
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WNNK 104's Traffic Reports
- Thread starter celestevo
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Cumulus formed "Right Now Traffic" nationwide back in April. I suspect RNT supplies "read copy" to station voices, if a station pays to use it. On the other hand, RNT possibly has national advertisers, and if the RNT voice isn't on the Cumulus family of stations, maybe all bets are off.
You might want to check John's status at 4:50pm weekdays on 105.7 the X. He did a daily (sometimes hilarious) spot with Chris James, followed by traffic. The spot would be lame without John.
You might want to check John's status at 4:50pm weekdays on 105.7 the X. He did a daily (sometimes hilarious) spot with Chris James, followed by traffic. The spot would be lame without John.
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I noticed that Wilsbach is no longer on the Wink web site. His non-compete clause would not allow him to work for right-now-traffic, as he was an employee of the now defunct Metro traffic, and not an employee of Wink.
I think the answers you're seeking will come at 5a sharp on Monday.
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trende said:
actually they do hold up. Precedent has been set many times. You must have forgotten, that when Bruce Bond worked at 102.3, wink sued (and won) to get him off the air.
If Cumulus had any cojones, they would back John and fight this out for him. Not that I expect that from the company that decided it would be a good thing to kill the best real rock station in the area like they did with WTPA when they moved them to the crappy frequency of 92.1.
Central PA radio, in a word, sucks. There are limited good stations around anymore. I have been listening to KWZF 92.7 more lately. I like John's local traffic reports, but cannot stomach WRVV, and WHP AM is not even an option for me, I dislike that even more. After the WTPA charlie foxtrot, I listened to WNNK in the morning, then the X in the afternoon - mainly for John's traffic on my way to and from work.
Sorry John , but your excellent traffic reporting is not quite enough to get me to listen to the Clear Channel stations.
Central PA radio, in a word, sucks. There are limited good stations around anymore. I have been listening to KWZF 92.7 more lately. I like John's local traffic reports, but cannot stomach WRVV, and WHP AM is not even an option for me, I dislike that even more. After the WTPA charlie foxtrot, I listened to WNNK in the morning, then the X in the afternoon - mainly for John's traffic on my way to and from work.
Sorry John , but your excellent traffic reporting is not quite enough to get me to listen to the Clear Channel stations.
In case you were not aware, Cumulus was forced by the FCC to sell two of their radio stations in Harrisburg after the Citadel merger. Naturally, they chose the weakest of the two frequencies, 92.1 and 102.3. The were also required by the FTC to divest themselves of the intellectual property of WTPA, regardless of which frequencies they kept. That is why they moved TPA to 92.1. I'm sure there was no joy in doing so.
While they were required to divest, the FCC did not require the divestiture of WTPA, the FTC did. Clear Channel forced that one, Cumulus was going to move Hot up the dial, moving that station (I forget which) to the 92.1 spot and keep TPA where it was. Clear Channel raised a stink with the feds, who told Cumulus to divest WTPA. I have heard from a fairly reliable source that the instructions from Cumulus were to gut WTPA. That was NOT a federal requirement, nor was relocating it to a channel that changed the coverage area considerably, causing many listeners - particularly in the western part of the listening area, to no longer be able to receive anything for WTPA.
While I have not followed up on it, I am curious as to exactly where, in Palmyra, WTPA has it's presence. Under FCC rules, a station must have a copy of it's public file in their city of license. For WTPA, that is Palmyra.
While I have not followed up on it, I am curious as to exactly where, in Palmyra, WTPA has it's presence. Under FCC rules, a station must have a copy of it's public file in their city of license. For WTPA, that is Palmyra.
John did not work for Cumulus. He worked for Metro Traffic which was bought by Clear Channel. So they put him on in Harrisburg on CC stations. He had no choice if he wanted to keep doing traffic without waiting the 6 month period out to re join doing traffic for Cumulus as a Cumulus employee.
To clarify this situation a little bit for anyone who might be confused, John & Cumulus had no choice in this matter. Last year Total Traffic (aka Clear Channel) bought Metro who John worked for. This made John a Clear Channel employee even though he was working at Cumulus. He was able to stay because of the contracts the Metro had in place prior to being purchased. When the contracts expired at the end of June, John had to leave since Cumulus is obviously not going to pay their competitor for traffic information. Clear Channel is saying John has a non-compete with them even though word from both places is that he never signed a non-compete. How Clear Channel can enforce something that doesn't exist is beyond me? Cumulus won't get into the fray since he wasn't their employee and John is on his own. Maybe someone should kick in to pay for his lawyers? As far as his current replacement, Dave Andrews, it's a bizarre situation. Dave used to be in charge of the Harrisburg office of Total Traffic up until last Summer when Clear Channel closed the office in the name of the almighty dollar, everything was moved to Philadelphia & Dave and his staff were hurled into the street after about 10 years. You may or may not know, Dave has been reporting traffic for this area for more than 20 years (6 or 7 yrs more than John). He was Commander Kool for the Oldies station, Kool 94.9, in the early 90's, then was at Channel 27 before moving to Clear Channel. So he's not some newbie. I believe Dave & John are friends and having met Dave on a few occasions, he seems like the kind of person who feels like he's just holding down the fort until his friend gets back to where he belongs. That is, if John can get out from under that non-existant non-compete. So if you want to listen to Dave, keep listening to Cumulus. If you want to hear John, flip to WHP 580, The River, Bob or Kiss. John's just stuck between a couple of giant swinging dicks in a pissing contest. If you're mad about all this, don't aim it at the guys.
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