The economic state of radio
From www.dcrtv.com
More CC Cuts Coming - DCRTV hears there's going to be another round of layoffs in April that is going to be focused on management, programming, and on-air talent. The last round, back on Inauguration Day, saw the San Antonio-based radio giant discharge more than 1,000 workers nationwide, several dozen in the DC-Baltimore area, including many sales people.
This continues to happen over at clear channel. I do not understand how waves of layoffs are good for a company. If you need to downsize have a full plan and fire people ALL AT ONE TIME. It makes for an unproductive and uneasy office place. I personally had to go through firings with employees and dreading the uncomfortable conversations with co-workers and friends. If I had to do it in multiple drawn out weeks and months I think it would have drove me crazy. This is further proof that these radio stations do not have a real plan and after all the years they have ran radio stations, they still are making a living off of guess work.
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Radio dipping (a bit too far) in to multi-media
I was in a meeting today about websites, webcams, and streaming... Don't get me wrong I fully understand the need for a working and user friendly website and stream but I think as a radio station the first concern should be GOOD RADIO. I don't care how cool your site is, if your station blows no one will ever log on. During my meeting today they started talking about puring all kinds of money in to lighting... for the webcam... lighting... for a radio station.... are you kidding... How about we put that money to another show producer? or something that can create usable content? I love radio, but I love it for the compelling, interesting, and funny content... not because the host looks dreamy in the correct lighting... This is why radio is in trouble, because people forgot what gets people listening.
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Nice blog, JDubbs. Good to see you back online.
ReplyDeleteAs far as radio dipping too far in to multimedia, I agree with what you posted. Personally, I would only log on the webcam if something was actually GOING ON in the studio. It's pointless to log on just to watch Jim Philips adjust his junk. They should invest in content first.
Oh and about the possible CC layoffs... Any chance ol' El Jefe is on the chopping block? I'm sure he signed a contract, but that would put a smile on my face.
Treehouse, what?!
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lol I hope Jefe is ok...
ReplyDeleteThank you! I don't want to see fucking people do a radio broadcast. Once you set up a camera in studio then the hosts seem to pay too much attention to the camera rather than doing a fucking radio show.
ReplyDeleteNewsHounds, What?!
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Good to see you back Dubs. They could care less about good radio whether it's talk or music. Instead, they prefer 24 hour abortion radio with the lamest and most tepid discussion and jokes imaginable. Remember Unzipped?!
ReplyDeleteTreehouse what?...5000
Damn... unzipped... remember WJFK hired them over us... not a high point in my career... i remember listening to them during the try out and thinking "well we don't have to worry about that abortion"
ReplyDeleteYeah, I remember during their test week they were hyping up some interview that they would have with some guy from Stern's show. When they finally interviewed him on the last day, he was on lots of Vicodin and the interview lasted for no more than five minutes, and was completely without substance.
ReplyDeleteI praise Matt Albert for calling them three times in one night just to call the male host gay.
My favorite radio show (Ron & Fez) do a lot of visual things where they broadcast via webcam. Even though I could easily join PalTalk to watch, I never do. Even as a Howard Stern fan in the 90's, I never watched his E! show. Radio is theater of the mind and watching it just doesn't interest me in the least.
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