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Post by kevin502 on Nov 30, 2007 10:42:44 GMT -5
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Post by Max on Nov 30, 2007 11:53:19 GMT -5
According to the C-J blog, Jill Lawrence also got cut along with a Scott 'Gettleman'...I wonder if the blogger meant Goettel!
Man alive, Clear Channel sucks (no news there) and also according to another blogger, there are insinuations Jerry Abramson had something to do with it.
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Post by bruiser on Nov 30, 2007 12:59:42 GMT -5
Some of you might remember John Ziegler. He did the morning talk show and got WHAS record breaking numbers for that time slot. He stepped on some important toes and got canned. I suspect the same thing may have happened to Joe. Anyway, this sucks.
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Post by John Quincy on Nov 30, 2007 13:18:54 GMT -5
I'm so sorry to hear this. Joe's a super nice guy, and a great local talk show host.
It probably had nothing to do with Joe's performance or ratings. Instead, it appears to be a bean-counting move. Joe drew a salary. Like most syndicated radio programming, running Michael Savage costs no money -- all the station has to do is clear the network commercials.
Being fired is a fact of life in radio. I'm sad that it happened to Joe.
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Post by 1240WINN on Nov 30, 2007 14:39:24 GMT -5
It seems that Clear Channel is cutting everyone once they reach a certain salary level.
WAMZ has been hit fairly hard in the past few years, losing Sheila Ash, Night Train Lane, Gator Glass, and now Jill Lawrence. They are running either syndicated programs or relatively unknown, lower salaried persons in the positions. I think I read somewhere that they would like to move to live staff in morning and afternoon drive and voice track everything else.
How sad that both WHAS and WAMZ get further and further away from the family owned powerhouses that they used to be.
It is unfortunate that today's listeners will never be able to identify a radio announcer with a station in the way we are able to identify Bill Bailey with WAKY, Wayne Perkey with WHAS and Coyote Calhoun with WAMZ.
Our local stations become more and more like satellite radio. I may have to sirius-ly look at that option...
Joe Elliot was a host in the tradition of Milton Metz, who held that time slot for many years. This may have been the last remaining vestige of the "old" WHAS...
My best wishes to Joe and the others who were dismissed.
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Post by bruiser on Nov 30, 2007 15:47:32 GMT -5
I tend to agree with John. When I learned the Michael Savage show was replacing Joe, my first thought was WHAS is cheapening out.
One of my favorite things I heard Joe say, and I won't say who he was talking about, was "If I can't talk to the organ grinder, I don't want to talk to his monkey". Joe was trying to get the head of a local pressure group on his show and he wouldn't come, but offered to send a spokes person.
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Post by bruiser on Dec 1, 2007 10:23:47 GMT -5
It didn't take long. Savage debuted last night.
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Post by Max on Dec 2, 2007 9:23:50 GMT -5
I am listening to Joe this morning as we speak and I am awed and floored by his professionalism and the high road he is taking. He is as they say killing them (Clear Channel) with kindness. As many have said, Radio is a business, more so than it was (or appeared to be) 30-40 years ago and I believe CC is rolling the dice and playing the numbers, banking on there being more casual listeners than there are those who actually are listening to the personality. They are sacrificing the messenger for their message ($$$).
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Post by bruiser on Dec 2, 2007 11:50:03 GMT -5
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Post by John Quincy on Dec 4, 2007 14:52:58 GMT -5
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