Part Six from Satellite Music Network’s “The History of Radio.”
Nothing to with radio, although if you agree with my assessment then you and your listeners might have fun ridiculing this gift, with people encouraged to call in to nominate their own “dumbest” gifts.
The U.S. Armed Forces Network has dedicated, mostly quite young, broadcasters deployed around the world. Over the years I’ve done seminars, coaching and critiques for them. The broadcasters are wonderful to work with.
The military bureaucracy? Uh, it’s been interesting.
Most recent example: My critique for one particular base operation was emailed to a bunch of people at that base. And every one of those emails was returned to me as undeliverable.
Reason: The base’s IT Department is “blocking all incoming email that ends with a dot-com.”
Well, gee, I guess there can’t be very many email addresses that end in “dot-com.” I feel so much safer.
After spending all day on the phone, I think I’ve finalized the lineup for PD GRAD SCHOOL 2009. Tell me what you think about our newest guest speakers:
Gary Marince from Arbitron: “PROGRAMMING IN A PPM WORLD: How To Cut Through”
Philippe Generali gives a live demonstration of Media Monitors'”Audience Reactions” software that takes minute-by-minute PPM data and matches it up with what actually happened at that moment. Click on that moment, hear what it was.
An anonymous source forwarded this to me. It allegedly was sent by a Clear Channel employee to his/her colleagues.
This might be entirely fictitious. Then again, it might not.
I have removed any references that might identify the originator.
They are getting ready to unload a majority of the programming payroll in the company. Moved budget process to Jan so they could do it with Bain. If you work in a non-essential programming or talent position in a market beyond Top 25-50, please beware. This will also effect production, traffic, sales, IT and other positions where duties could be handled by one person.
Air talent – They are going to feed formats to above 25-30 top markets from San Antonio and other markets to start in 2009. PD’s and jocks in these stations will be let go. OM’s will program the entire cluster.
Make your plans now. They will not be paying giant severances as promised in July. That meant if you lost your job because of the transfer of power from Mays to Bain, you would be paid large. (Name Deleted) found this out last week and it’s leaking out from VP’s in the company. In (Market) where I was let go, this means all of those duplicate traffic positions, assistant IT, production people, traffic, news and promotions assistant will be absorbed by others. Most of the (Market) stations will be ordered to be voice tracked sooner than later.
Don’t let them call you into an office, you need to have the upper hand and have another job and quit on them before they blast you. Again this isn’t coming from me, I like the group there and don’t want to see them get caught in a whirlwind.
