Tom Taylor reports that the Cumulus cost cutting machine hit New York this weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 Mancow had been hosting a weekend show.\u00a0\u00a0 He’s history for that local show.<\/p>\n
Scott Shannon is an obvious problem for Cumulus.\u00a0\u00a0 He was the VP of programming for Citadel, as well as the co-host of the morning show on WPLJ, the voice you hear on the True Oldies syndicated voice tracking show, and the voice you hear a lot on Sean Hannity’s show.\u00a0\u00a0 He’s one of the hardest working people in radio and probably one or the highest paid.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tom Taylor alluded to him getting a “title change” without mentioning the specifics.\u00a0\u00a0 I doubt it was a promotion.\u00a0 Mr Dickey makes all decsions and has no need for things like VPs.<\/p>\n
WPLJ lost its sales manager and overnight DJ – in total about 14 people terminated in the New York market.<\/p>\n
So the “slash and burn” of radio cotinues.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The solution to the complaint of young people that the programming is crap?\u00a0\u00a0 Make it even crappier (but cheaper to produce crap)….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tom Taylor reports that the Cumulus cost cutting machine hit New York this weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 Mancow had been hosting a weekend show.\u00a0\u00a0 He’s history for that local show. Scott Shannon is an obvious problem for Cumulus.\u00a0\u00a0 He was the VP of … Continue reading