"massive dismissals of DJs from local radio stations" Clear Channel

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http://keysnews.com/node/35627


Radio yanks 18-year DJs

Clear Channel axes Rude Girl and Molly Blue


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"We've rethought our regional markets and are launching a new strategy to reinvent operations and better serve our listeners while growing our ratings," regional market manager Sherri Sanchez told The Citizen Wednesday afternoon.

It was nearly the same sentence, verbatim, that Clear Channel spokeswoman Wendy Goldberg told New York Times reporter Brian Stelter last week, when Stelter was writing a story about Clear Channel's new strategy, which included massive dismissals of DJs from local radio stations.

The company refuses to say how many DJs were fired, but some of the on-air personalities throughout the corporation estimate it to be in the hundreds, according to Stelter's Oct. 27 article.

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"Listeners will hear on-air talent from other markets," Sanchez said.

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don't know why, but this makes me wonder if Clear Channel is religious?

I'm not a radio listener but know many of you all are. are you losing DJs too?

[valerief]

1. Religious. Right wing. Oftentimes the same thing. I don't think you can have right wing

without religion.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

10. Yep.

Rejection of advertising images
Clear Channel Outdoor rejected the two images on the left
In June 2010 Clear Channel Outdoor rejected without comment two digital billboard images submitted by St. Pete Pride, an LGBT organization that sponsors gay pride events in the St. Petersburg, Florida area, leading the group to cancel its contract with Clear Channel. St. Pete Pride has stated that throughout its eight year history, Clear Channel has edited the organization's advertising material, and questioned whether the rejection of these images were because they displayed same-sex couples in affectionate poses. A Clear Channel spokesperson declined to comment on the specific reasons why the images were rejected but denied that the affection being shown was an issue, saying that such images had been included in previous St. Pete Pride campaigns.<38>

Censorship

Clear Channel has been criticized for censoring opinions critical of George W. Bush and other Republicans. After Natalie Maines, the singer of the Dixie Chicks, told a London audience "we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas", the band's radio airplay dropped precipitously. Afterwards, some Clear Channel stations removed The Dixie Chicks from their playlists without any noted repercussions from the company. Gail Austin, Clear Channel's director of programming said, "Out of respect for our troops, our city and our listeners, have taken the Dixie Chicks off our playlists."<39> Clear Channel was accused of orchestrating the radio blacklist by such critics as Paul Krugman, however others claim some Clear Channel stations continued to play the band longer than some other companies.<40>Clear Channel-owned KTVX was the only local television station which refused to air the paid political message of Cindy Sheehan against the war in Iraq.<41>While a smaller percentage of Clear Channel's AM talk/music stations have been in the progressive talk format (featuring the now-cancelled Air America Radio network) and they have also been a media sponsor of Frameline, the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival,<42> most (nearly 90 percent) of Clear Channel's radio stations feature right wing content.<43>

Use of paid actors posing as callers

Clear Channel, through its subsidiary, Premiere Radio Networks, auditions and hires actors to call in to talk radio shows and pose as listeners in order to provide shows, carried by Clear Channel and other broadcasters, with planned content in the form of stories and opinions. The custom caller service provided by Premiere Radio ensures its clients they won't hear the same actor's voice for at least two months in order to appear authentic to listeners who might otherwise catch on.<44>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Channel_Communications#Criticism_of_Clear_Channel

[Crazy Dave]

2. They bounce around to different stations

Personally I'm glad that I don't have to listen to my co-workers "Lex and Terry" bullshit anymore.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. "better serve our listeners while growing our ratings,"

LOL. You mean better serve your profits.

Too bad for all those DJs who toed the right-wing-bash-Deomocrats lines.

[AngryAmish]

4. I wonder if radio is in a death spiral

There will always be a radio but I for one have grown used to listening to music without commercials. Now I get it through my cable tv through tv with spotify and the ilk.

I am very annoyed to hear commercials nowadays. No commercials no djs, tho. Come to think of it I don't like to even hear djs anymore.

[Crazy Dave]

6. Same here

Got me a Sirius lifetime subscription back in '05.

[randome]

7. I haven't listened to radio for ten years or so.

All the pointless, juvenile 'talk' was too much for me. Then the iPod was born. Now I can randomize through 9000 songs and still be surprised by what comes up next.

[arcane1]

5. Sounds like consolidation

having only a few national DJ's cover the entire country, instead of local ones. This also makes it easier for all their stations to have the same "message"

[HereSince1628]

8. Who needs local DJ's? Or for that matter

who needs low watt music radio? The available answer to that question moved my son from being a music director to selling life, home and auto insurance.

[Arctic Dave]

9. Why pay hundreds of DJs when they can just have one person rant against Dems

and put it on a tape loop. That is in essance what they have been doing for two decades.

Edit:

Anymore, if I walk into an office with RW "radio" playing I internally roll my eyes. I pretty much sum up this person is a pathological hatemonger.
Just about everyone has an personal music system they listen to now.

[wtmusic]

11. Internet/satellite radio is replacing broadcast

this problem will take care of itself.

[bengalherder]

12. I work with a lot of young people

None of them listen to radio (except our local low-watt college station). Most listen to Pandora or i-pods. They have little patience for commercials and DJ chatter. Thank god, because I've been unable to stand that shit for years.


I will not be sad to see Clear Channel go down, and it will happen in the next10-15 years, mark my words.

[Warren Stupidity]

13. I remember radio, wasn't that really big in the 60s?