ClearChannel with MASSIVE national cuts

There could also have been the situation that occurred this morning in Washington, where a traffic patrol report from Inauguration Day was repeated rhis morning -- complete with streets to avoid, jam-ups and pedestrians everywhere.

It was a Radio One station, by the by.

 

You can't make it up.

 

A guy I follow on Twitter (yeah, freakin' Twitter), who's in the business, tipped everyone off over the weekend about CC's mass whackings during the Inauguration. An hour after the swearing-in, a programmer for a local CC station twittered and said she got whacked. Our CC-Des Moines stations have been silent or is trying to determine who goes and who stays in respects to the local shows. It would be a surprise to many local listeners if any of the locals get blown out. All three daily shows have done well as far as advertisers plugging their shows. Then again, I could be wrong as hell.

I was unaware that CC gutted FSR like a fish until tonight, when an acquaintance emailed me and told me that Siciliano, Shemon, Maller, and most of the notable names got their walking papers. I was at a funeral in northern Iowa and was listening to Dan Patrick and was not tuned into FSR all day today.

Two weeks ago, a local radio group, the Des Moines Radio Group, fired 4 of their employees, including 2(?) DJs, one of them was a local morning legend on the old-time music station.

I said that if CC proceeded to fire everyone in their paths during the Inauguration, they would go on my shit list as scum, along with Gannett. The sumbitches confirmed for me.

 

I like listening to Sicilano... not surprised the CC f-tards did any of this.

 

And if you really want to piss CC off... challenge the local content portion of the licenses next time they come up.

 

Clear Channel . . . commercial radio, Mitt Romney style.

As always, to hell with what people say . . . watch what people do.

 

The trouble with landing somewhere is you're not going to land at a CC station -- so that eliminates a lot of potential workplaces -- and there are a hell of a lot of people competing for a smaller number of jobs.

 

Do you have any sympathy for someone who works for both of the places on your list?

 

John, I have sympathy for those who work for CC and Gannett. I have no sympathy for the fucking tools at the top. Case in point: The Register's 2nd in command, Laura Hollingsworth, pens a column late last week, informing readers that several sections of the paper was going to be merged. To add insult to injury, someone with ties to the Register uncovers that the Gannett heads were in California golfing over the weekend at a Bob Hope charity deal. Hollingsworth was the second person mentioned, behind their CEO.

I have no sympathy for Gannett. Ask everyone else on this board how they feel. You'll get the same reaction.

 

I'm old enough to remember when the Des Moines Register was a great newspaper.

Then Gannett bought it. First thing they did was kill the "Big Peach".

Hell, I'm old enough to remember the Des Moines Tribune.

 

FSR was indeed gutted. Most everyone's gone, and now Petros and Money, two great talents who are as LA-centric as a Pink's Hot Dog, have been put on nationally; another LA-centric dude, Steve Hartmann has also been hooked up with Chris Meyers. To hear the two of them go on at length about the KC Chiefs while I'm driving on the 405 makes me thrilled I reupped Sirius/XM