Clear Channel purges?

[Pepperbelly]

These guys are taking the FCC far more seriously than they should. I heard today that they fired a long-time (20 plus yrs) DJ, the Outlaw Tommy Smith on Magic 104, a classic rock station, because of his sometimes outrageous on-air remarks. :shrug: No big deal to me. More sophomoric than anything else.

But I did a search.

Turns out when I did a google news on "clear channel" fired, I got an interesting variety of citations, including many fired DJs.

I sense something more than mere compliance with the FCC. Do you remember the movie Strange Days? One of the characters noted, it isn't whether you're paranoiod. The question is whether you're paranoid enough.




http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Clear+Channel%22+fired&btnG=Search+News

[w4rma]

1. Yes. Imagine the Freepers ran that company. Imagine what they would do.

Now realize that folks just like the Freepers DO run that company.

[NashVegas]

2. Clear Channel and DJ's and Modern Technology

It's an age old General Manager's joke: "now, if we could only lose the jocks."

The ability for radio to lose the jocks technically was first used widespread in the 1970s, all the cart-automation systems carrying pre-recorded voices. In the 90s it got even more space efficient thanks to computers.

But legally, radio stations always had to have a warm person on the premesis. That stopped when EAS replaced EBS in the mid-late '90s. With EBS you needed a human to run the system and tests, with EAS you don't.

Everyone's doing it, not just Clear Channel. Well, not everyone. Just everyone with short-sighted management (automated radio got its ass kicked in the 70s, and it will again).

I work in radio. Digital music delivery is not my friend.