Clear Channel whacks a bunch of popular Cleveland radio personalities

[Starman]

Time for an AT&T-type forced breakup of the corporate media behemoths.

It serves local audiences nothing to have local stations all handed over to syndicated zombie programming.

I don't think it will make that much of a difference. There are locally-owned stations that take all their programming outside of morning and afternoon drive off the satellite. Technology makes it too easy to cut corners.

Require local programming.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Time for an AT&T-type forced breakup of the corporate media behemoths.

It serves local audiences nothing to have local stations all handed over to syndicated zombie programming.

I don't think it will make that much of a difference. There are locally-owned stations that take all their programming outside of morning and afternoon drive off the satellite. Technology makes it too easy to cut corners.

Require local programming.

How? What difference does it make if the person playing the Beyonce track is in town or 3,000 miles away?

 

[ctr]

yeah, just two. somehow the dumbass keeps getting on horses

honestly, i was pretty happy with my tweet to announce the whole thing. was in the first story on cincinnati.com talking about the firings

actually, a decent severance package, though

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

600 (actually 590) let go across the country. Clear Channel is the JRC of radio.

 

[Football_Bat]

Wow, not even the famous are safe:

KHHT (Hot 92.3)/Los Angeles midday personality Al B. Sure! was another casualty of company-wide cutbacks in Los Angeles. He joined the station two years ago, and continues to tour as an R&B singer.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Whacked one of the Monsters of the Morning in Orlando, too.

And not the one that I hate.

 

[playthrough]

Paul Daugherty in Cincy talked about his axing in his Enquirer blog. Worth a read. Part of it:

"Times are horrible in the media industry, exacerbated by the barons who run the shows. They make the GM twits seem like Andrew Carnegie. I was told my whacking was a corporate decision, made by Clear Channel bean counters, using some "formula.'' I don't know if I believe that. I never knew if I believed anything anyone told me at WLW, not from the very first day. Radio is not a pretty business, at least from my very limited perspective. Not that it matters.

At 10 AM Tuesday, I was handed a severance package and shown the door. Literally overnight, I went from being "the future of the radio station'' (Parks) to the parking lot. The whole transaction took 5 minutes. Since I'd never been "severed'' before, I don't know if that's the norm. And obviously, there is no "right'' way to do that sort of thing. Regardless, it was entirely classless and, from what I've heard from others within ClearChannel Cincinnati, not atypical."

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=PluckPersona&U=c77145f462c74fa0ac03babe03d1a7e3&plckController=PersonaBlog&plckScript=personaScript&plckElementId=personaDest&plckPersonaPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3ac77145f462c74fa0ac03babe03d1a7e3Post%3ae9ef3e6c-9b54-4892-9bb5-13b5d46b90a2&sid=sitelife.cincinnati.com

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

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[Baron Scicluna]

Time for an AT&T-type forced breakup of the corporate media behemoths.

It serves local audiences nothing to have local stations all handed over to syndicated zombie programming.

I don't think it will make that much of a difference. There are locally-owned stations that take all their programming outside of morning and afternoon drive off the satellite. Technology makes it too easy to cut corners.

Require local programming.

How? What difference does it make if the person playing the Beyonce track is in town or 3,000 miles away?

As much as government regulation would be criticized for 'Choosing what people may listen to on the radio', I wouldn't mind a law passed that only allows an artist/band to be played on a radio station, say, three times a day, with one song being allowed to play twice.

It would open up the airwaves for more artists, and we wouldn't hear the same 20 songs on the radio played over and over again.

But like I said, it would then turn into 'The government is telling you what music to listen to' (not that hasn't happened before with censorship.

Oh, and CC sucks, just because in 1997, they played Bob Carlisle's 'Butterfly Kisses' endlessly on my local station [crossthread].

 

[I Should Coco]

TV and radio are hurrying toward the same vile destination as the newspaper industry, it's just that TV and radio are getting there first.

It won't be long -- if this isn't true already -- that in larger metro areas, you will have ZERO local news reporters for radio and ZERO coverage of prep and maybe even college sports on the air.

The only places with local news and sports on the radio will be the small towns who manage to hang on to their community radio stations. Very sad.

 

[SoCalScribe]

I don't think most Americans realize that TV and radio are encountering many of the same problems as newspapers -- perhaps because newspapers are so much more willing to eulogize themselves. We will see a lot less local radio and a lot less local TV newscasts in the near future.

 

[Starman]

Time for an AT&T-type forced breakup of the corporate media behemoths.

It serves local audiences nothing to have local stations all handed over to syndicated zombie programming.

I don't think it will make that much of a difference. There are locally-owned stations that take all their programming outside of morning and afternoon drive off the satellite. Technology makes it too easy to cut corners.

Require local programming.

How? What difference does it make if the person playing the Beyonce track is in town or 3,000 miles away?

It makes a LOT of difference. In the glory days of top-40 and early days of AOR radio, there were dramatic differences in regional music tastes -- and it's how different regional styles developed.

Plus, if the refinery a quarter mile down the street catches on fire, the local jock playing Beyonce can tell you about it sooner than the 48 hours it takes Zombie Sydnijock in LA to see it on CNN.