During the third hour of the Friday Night \/ Saturday morning show, Phil unloaded on radio in general, and the Cumulus purchase of the ABC stations in particular.<\/p>\n
As was clearly going to happen, the Dickey family is swinging the cost cutting axe and has chopped out a big part of the staff of KGO. <\/p>\n
Phil declared that radio “is gone”, and they did it to themselves – radio stations are “now worth nothing”. Phil “doesn’t care any more what the radio business did to itself”.<\/p>\n
Phil is syndicated by Talk Radio Network.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, I agree with him. Cumulus is now heavily in debt and thinks the way to make money in radio is to cut the costs of the experienced people and replace them with novices. I see nothing positive about the citadel acquisition and suspect the story will not have a happy ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
During the third hour of the Friday Night \/ Saturday morning show, Phil unloaded on radio in general, and the Cumulus purchase of the ABC stations in particular. As was clearly going to happen, the Dickey family is swinging the … Continue reading