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Yes. Look for the new hire to begin after October 15th. ;D
So, the John Tesh experiment is over then....
So where's Kurt Wallace? ???
Kurt is now doing mornings at the new shine.fm at 88.3 - the station that just replaced The Walk. http://indy.shine.fm/ If he is still on B, he might be doing voicetracking for his mid-day shift.
Here is the link to the morning show, with a short Youtube video from Kurt.....
http://indy.shine.fm/mornings
http://indy.shine.fm/mornings
Wonder if they're looking for Steve White then, who for years was the morning drive jock on WXIR Love 98?zinc said:
MightyFrenchman said:
Nope, just the good ones
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Steve White sucks. The only person from WXIR who could get a job in Indy radio is MAYBE Theresa Ross..and that would be part-time on the weekends. WXIR was a terrible radio station.
The reason WXIR went away had to do with management style. The trades for vehicles for staff cost the owners more in real tax payments than buying cars. A Christian station with Jewish ownership. They relied on local management to make the model work. Eventually they gave up. This is one place where the money over time would have been a better deal for someone who could see it, than less money quick. It came to the point that there was no money, even though ratings were there for a reasonable income.
White told the audience the reason the format went away was : "We were renting the station and our rental agreement has been canceled." This could have caused a license challenge.
White was not as good as the talent on the satellite. But, he was the manager. He went to Crawfordsville for a few months. His management style imploded.
White told the audience the reason the format went away was : "We were renting the station and our rental agreement has been canceled." This could have caused a license challenge.
White was not as good as the talent on the satellite. But, he was the manager. He went to Crawfordsville for a few months. His management style imploded.
While some of the issues raised here are likely contributors to the eventual sale of WXIR-FM, I believe the primary reason was the need of ownership to cash out - they were elderly, with one in ill health, and no other family members interested in stepping up to take over the business.
I believe Steve White was actually a suitor to purchase the station, but ultimately couldn't bring the cash [either his own or investor money]. However he positioned it on air to the listenership was merely posturing, to save face.
I believe Steve White was actually a suitor to purchase the station, but ultimately couldn't bring the cash [either his own or investor money]. However he positioned it on air to the listenership was merely posturing, to save face.
flip23 said:
He did for a long time. Got sent to PMD a couple of years ago as part of a broader shuffle at Emmis.
flip23 said:
You assume he wants to.
mouseman said:
Lies typically are posturing to save face. Using spin to make a lie something less is regular when the facts would cause harm. The broader implication would be the misrepresentation of an LMA that didn't exist.
The Jewish ownership was well known and the LMA lie was used in many cases. Ala Seinfeld, "not that anything is wrong with that." Some fundamentals however have a problem with Jewish anything. That Christ and his Disciples were Jewish seems to miss the mark with them. In Acts the Synagogue was the place where most early Christian teaching took place.
The Smulyans owned WNTS for years and never used this fabrication. When the ownership passed to Jeff he sold it.
If you looked at the financials, and I did, the problem with WXIR was the blood letting of cash in a format that had no competition. It had okay ratings. It was run poorly. Many years of apathy and continuing decline of income despite listener support painted the station for what it was, dead. The reason no investors popped in was the fact that the price of the station could never be repaid on a loan given the income or lack of it.
Those who looked at WXIR as what they thought was a "thriving business" painted by an investment group were turned away by the mismanagement of the company. Those who wanted it to continue as a ministry looked at the financials and saw there was a problem with the management in a ministry bubble. People doing nothing were paid too much. The manager made more than a pastor at a large mega church and did nothing.
While the station had a heritage that had been built by others over time, the actual operation had no intrinsic value. Ministry or Business. Many noted it as a loss to the community but the loss had already taken place while it was on, it just wasn't obvious.
The replacement station in Franklin didn't perform and became talk. K love has reached listeners and is doing well financially. The loss is the lack of community service.
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