It's a Clear Channel Christmas

It's Christmas. Some stations flip to non-stop, non-maintenance
seasonal music while they try to figure out why their time spent
listening continues to plummet with their regular format.

At Clear Channel, it means it's time for the annual holiday season
bloodbath. The fatality list is too long to list. Ten were whacked in
L.A., for starters.

Don't take it personally. If you're with Clear Channel, the stations
you work for are line items - nothing more. When your entire business
philosophy, post-radio deregulation was "buy 'em now and figure out
what to do with 'em later," with absolutely no thought of any down
side, what else would you expect? The bigger Clear Channel got - the
more problems they created for themselves.

Unless you were fortunate enough, like John Hogan, and given
membership in the golden parachute club, which Randy Michaels and Sam
Zell set up shortly before scamming the Mays family into buying Jacor,
you have no job security.

Catch that, Tribune employees?

See, we misunderstood John Hogan. We thought "less is more" was about
reducing commercial inventory - not personnel.

Successful criminals always travel light.

Now we hear that Clear Channel plans to eliminate what little remains
of their promotion and marketing departments.

Come January '08, their account executives will be responsible for
producing their own remotes. Yes, a $5.85 minimum wage entry level
position for someone wanting to break into a career in radio will now
be handled by the sales department.

That means in addition to writing the business, sales people will have
to drive the station van to the event; set up the banners, booth, and
sound system - and tear everything down after the event.

How much you want to bet that the account executives that don't jump
ship will just stop selling remotes.

You can thank Fiddle and Faddle a.k.a. the private equity firms of
BainCapital and Thomas H. Lee. They're the ones that paid the Axis of
Evil, otherwise known as the Mays family, billions to take Clear
Channel private.

Who says medieval systems don't work anymore? The Mays family ends up
with a major cash incentive for screwing everything up while everyone
else, Fiddle and Faddle included, are stuck with a cash disincentive.
That's what you do when you run out of money to steal.

We knew that house of cards would tumble eventually. So did the Mays
family. The deal was done so it would fall on Fiddle and Faddle. And
Fiddle founder Mitt Romney wants to be your next President?

Memo to anyone making six figures or over at Clear Channel: Start
looking now.

Posted by John Gorman at 10:27 AM

3 comments:
SavvyDude said...
Why keep a marketing and promotion department at Clear Channel when it
has nothing to promote and market.

December 3, 2007 10:53 AM
Mike Walker said...
"Why keep a marketing and promotion department at Clear Channel when
it has nothing to promote and market."

What about the loser called HD Radio?

December 3, 2007 10:58 AM
Anonymous said...
As Bones said to Kirk "It's dead Jim".

The only good news is that Bain Capital may just write off Clear
Channel as a loss and you will be right with your prediction about
fire sales.

I pray you are right.

December 3, 2007 11:02 AM
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http://gormanmediablog.blogspot.com/...christmas.html

On Dec 3, 11:04 am, IBOCcrock wrote:
It's a Clear Channel Christmas

It's Christmas. Some stations flip to non-stop, non-maintenance
seasonal music while they try to figure out why their time spent
listening continues to plummet with their regular format.

At Clear Channel, it means it's time for the annual holiday season
bloodbath. The fatality list is too long to list. Ten were whacked in
L.A., for starters.

Don't take it personally. If you're with Clear Channel, the stations
you work for are line items - nothing more. When your entire business
philosophy, post-radio deregulation was "buy 'em now and figure out
what to do with 'em later," with absolutely no thought of any down
side, what else would you expect? The bigger Clear Channel got - the
more problems they created for themselves.

Unless you were fortunate enough, like John Hogan, and given
membership in the golden parachute club, which Randy Michaels and Sam
Zell set up shortly before scamming the Mays family into buying Jacor,
you have no job security.

Catch that, Tribune employees?

See, we misunderstood John Hogan. We thought "less is more" was about
reducing commercial inventory - not personnel.

Successful criminals always travel light.

Now we hear that Clear Channel plans to eliminate what little remains
of their promotion and marketing departments.

Come January '08, their account executives will be responsible for
producing their own remotes. Yes, a $5.85 minimum wage entry level
position for someone wanting to break into a career in radio will now
be handled by the sales department.

That means in addition to writing the business, sales people will have
to drive the station van to the event; set up the banners, booth, and
sound system - and tear everything down after the event.

How much you want to bet that the account executives that don't jump
ship will just stop selling remotes.

You can thank Fiddle and Faddle a.k.a. the private equity firms of
BainCapital and Thomas H. Lee. They're the ones that paid the Axis of
Evil, otherwise known as the Mays family, billions to take Clear
Channel private.

Who says medieval systems don't work anymore? The Mays family ends up
with a major cash incentive for screwing everything up while everyone
else, Fiddle and Faddle included, are stuck with a cash disincentive.
That's what you do when you run out of money to steal.

We knew that house of cards would tumble eventually. So did the Mays
family. The deal was done so it would fall on Fiddle and Faddle. And
Fiddle founder Mitt Romney wants to be your next President?

Memo to anyone making six figures or over at Clear Channel: Start
looking now.

Posted by John Gorman at 10:27 AM

3 comments:
SavvyDude said...
Why keep a marketing and promotion department at Clear Channel when it
has nothing to promote and market.

December 3, 2007 10:53 AM
Mike Walker said...
"Why keep a marketing and promotion department at Clear Channel when
it has nothing to promote and market."

What about the loser called HD Radio?

December 3, 2007 10:58 AM
Anonymous said...
As Bones said to Kirk "It's dead Jim".

The only good news is that Bain Capital may just write off Clear
Channel as a loss and you will be right with your prediction about
fire sales.

I pray you are right.

December 3, 2007 11:02 AM
Post a Comment

http://gormanmediablog.blogspot.com/...hannel-christm...

"Now we hear that Clear Channel plans to eliminate what little remains
of their promotion and marketing departments."

Eduardo - bye, bye HD Radio!

On Dec 3, 8:10 am, IBOCcrock wrote:
On Dec 3, 11:04 am, IBOCcrock wrote:





It's a Clear Channel Christmas

It's Christmas. Some stations flip to non-stop, non-maintenance
seasonal music while they try to figure out why their time spent
listening continues to plummet with their regular format.

At Clear Channel, it means it's time for the annual holiday season
bloodbath. The fatality list is too long to list. Ten were whacked in
L.A., for starters.

Don't take it personally. If you're with Clear Channel, the stations
you work for are line items - nothing more. When your entire business
philosophy, post-radio deregulation was "buy 'em now and figure out
what to do with 'em later," with absolutely no thought of any down
side, what else would you expect? The bigger Clear Channel got - the
more problems they created for themselves.

Unless you were fortunate enough, like John Hogan, and given
membership in the golden parachute club, which Randy Michaels and Sam
Zell set up shortly before scamming the Mays family into buying Jacor,
you have no job security.

Catch that, Tribune employees?

See, we misunderstood John Hogan. We thought "less is more" was about
reducing commercial inventory - not personnel.

Successful criminals always travel light.

Now we hear that Clear Channel plans to eliminate what little remains
of their promotion and marketing departments.

Come January '08, their account executives will be responsible for
producing their own remotes. Yes, a $5.85 minimum wage entry level
position for someone wanting to break into a career in radio will now
be handled by the sales department.

That means in addition to writing the business, sales people will have
to drive the station van to the event; set up the banners, booth, and
sound system - and tear everything down after the event.

How much you want to bet that the account executives that don't jump
ship will just stop selling remotes.

You can thank Fiddle and Faddle a.k.a. the private equity firms of
BainCapital and Thomas H. Lee. They're the ones that paid the Axis of
Evil, otherwise known as the Mays family, billions to take Clear
Channel private.

Who says medieval systems don't work anymore? The Mays family ends up
with a major cash incentive for screwing everything up while everyone
else, Fiddle and Faddle included, are stuck with a cash disincentive.
That's what you do when you run out of money to steal.

We knew that house of cards would tumble eventually. So did the Mays
family. The deal was done so it would fall on Fiddle and Faddle. And
Fiddle founder Mitt Romney wants to be your next President?

Memo to anyone making six figures or over at Clear Channel: Start
looking now.

Posted by John Gorman at 10:27 AM

3 comments:
SavvyDude said...
Why keep a marketing and promotion department at Clear Channel when it
has nothing to promote and market.

December 3, 2007 10:53 AM
Mike Walker said...
"Why keep a marketing and promotion department at Clear Channel when
it has nothing to promote and market."

What about the loser called HD Radio?

December 3, 2007 10:58 AM
Anonymous said...
As Bones said to Kirk "It's dead Jim".

The only good news is that Bain Capital may just write off Clear
Channel as a loss and you will be right with your prediction about
fire sales.

I pray you are right.

December 3, 2007 11:02 AM
Post a Comment

http://gormanmediablog.blogspot.com/...hannel-christm...

"Now we hear that Clear Channel plans to eliminate what little remains
of their promotion and marketing departments."

Eduardo - bye, bye HD Radio!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I B OC'd and Half-Crocked,

Dang - You Are A Real Head-Up-Your-Ass SICKO !

It's Christmas Season*
-cause- There is Christmas Music
on the Free Over-the-Air Radio !
* Let the Hirings Begin !

iboc crock - you are a sad sick human being
for revelling in the fact that people are
losing their jobs ~ RHF

On Dec 3, 8:16Â*pm, IBOCcrock wrote:
On Dec 3, 4:20�pm, RHF wrote:





On Dec 3, 8:10 am, IBOCcrock wrote:

On Dec 3, 11:04 am, IBOCcrock wrote:

It's a Clear Channel Christmas

It's Christmas. Some stations flip to non-stop, non-maintenance
seasonal music while they try to figure out why their time spent
listening continues to plummet with their regular format.

At Clear Channel, it means it's time for the annual holiday season
bloodbath. The fatality list is too long to list. Ten were whacked in
L.A., for starters.

Don't take it personally. If you're with Clear Channel, the stations
you work for are line items - nothing more. When your entire business
philosophy, post-radio deregulation was "buy 'em now and figure out
what to do with 'em later," with absolutely no thought of any down
side, what else would you expect? The bigger Clear Channel got - the
more problems they created for themselves.

Unless you were fortunate enough, like John Hogan, and given
membership in the golden parachute club, which Randy Michaels and Sam
Zell set up shortly before scamming the Mays family into buying Jacor,
you have no job security.

Catch that, Tribune employees?

See, we misunderstood John Hogan. We thought "less is more" was about
reducing commercial inventory - not personnel.

Successful criminals always travel light.

Now we hear that Clear Channel plans to eliminate what little remains
of their promotion and marketing departments.

Come January '08, their account executives will be responsible for
producing their own remotes. Yes, a $5.85 minimum wage entry level
position for someone wanting to break into a career in radio will now
be handled by the sales department.

That means in addition to writing the business, sales people will have
to drive the station van to the event; set up the banners, booth, and
sound system - and tear everything down after the event.

How much you want to bet that the account executives that don't jump
ship will just stop selling remotes.

You can thank Fiddle and Faddle a.k.a. the private equity firms of
BainCapital and Thomas H. Lee. They're the ones that paid the Axis of
Evil, otherwise known as the Mays family, billions to take Clear
Channel private.

Who says medieval systems don't work anymore? The Mays family ends up
with a major cash incentive for screwing everything up while everyone
else, Fiddle and Faddle included, are stuck with a cash disincentive..
That's what you do when you run out of money to steal.

We knew that house of cards would tumble eventually. So did the Mays
family. The deal was done so it would fall on Fiddle and Faddle. And
Fiddle founder Mitt Romney wants to be your next President?

Memo to anyone making six figures or over at Clear Channel: Start
looking now.

Posted by John Gorman at 10:27 AM

3 comments:
SavvyDude said...
Why keep a marketing and promotion department at Clear Channel when it
has nothing to promote and market.

December 3, 2007 10:53 AM
Mike Walker said...
"Why keep a marketing and promotion department at Clear Channel when
it has nothing to promote and market."

What about the loser called HD Radio?

December 3, 2007 10:58 AM
Anonymous said...
As Bones said to Kirk "It's dead Jim".

The only good news is that Bain Capital may just write off Clear
Channel as a loss and you will be right with your prediction about
fire sales.

I pray you are right.

December 3, 2007 11:02 AM
Post a Comment

http://gormanmediablog.blogspot.com/...hannel-christm....

"Now we hear that Clear Channel plans to eliminate what little remains
of their promotion and marketing departments."

Eduardo - bye, bye HD Radio!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I B OC'd and Half-Crocked,

Dang - You Are A Real Head-Up-Your-Ass SICKO !

It's Christmas Season*
-cause- There is Christmas Music
on the Free Over-the-Air Radio !
* Let the Hirings Begin !

iboc crock - you are a sad sick human being
for revelling in the fact that people are
losing their jobs ~ RHF
�.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -
-
- Death to HD Radio, at all expense!
-

I B OC'd and Half-Crocked,

Long Live "Free" Over-the-Air AM/FM Radio . . .

At No Expense -cause- It's Free ! ~ RHF

Less is more on the surface means less commercials. But really means more
units and more $$$$

Replace 60's with 30's..and run more 30's it's pure geniuses. . Maybe John
Hogan should run for President..