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ABC Lays Off 1/3 of Staff
As of Friday, ABC (the TV people, who also provide coverage to Citadel's ABC
Radio network) laid off 1/3 of its workforce. I could never understand why ABC had to have separate bureaus from their O&O stations. Now, I guess they won't. A 1/3 cut in staff is dramatic. Even Brian Rooney was let go. The NY Times reports that their London bureau, which covers much of Europe has gone from 100 people to about a dozen today. I'm reading a story from a 1934 radio magazine when the networks began building their news staffs. Prior to that time, the networks didn't have much of a news presence. Newspapers hated the competition so much that they began de-listing the networks from their daily radio program listings. There was actualy a time when newspapers dropped radio coverage except for their own stations if they had them. My how times have changed. |
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ABC Lays Off 1/3 of Staff
On May 3, 2:11 pm, (David Kaye) wrote:
As of Friday, ABC (the TV people, who also provide coverage to Citadel's ABC Radio network) laid off 1/3 of its workforce. I could never understand why ABC had to have separate bureaus from their O&O stations. Now, I guess they won't. A 1/3 cut in staff is dramatic. Even Brian Rooney was let go. The NY Times reports that their London bureau , which covers much of Europe has gone from 100 people to about a dozen today. I'm reading a story from a 1934 radio magazine when the networks began building their news staffs. Prior to that time, the networks didn't have much of a news presence. Newspapers hated the competition so much that they began de-listing the networks from their daily radio program listing s. There was actualy a time when newspapers dropped radio coverage except fo r their own stations if they had them. My how times have changed. I wonder if there were any changes that might explain the technical difficulty which had KGO repeating insurance ads and promos at the beginning of Brian Copeland's Sunday show...They tried to start the bumper music a bunch of times, with no host voice following, and a few times with someone mumbling of technical difficulty, then lots of repeated spots....took 25 minutes to get the show started. |
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Herb Louis wrote:
Why do we need "networks" anymore when we have one giant amorphous Inter-network to distribute just about any kind of media you want? Funding is the only reason I can think of. Programs such as "This American Life" couldn't be produced without the backing of the 500 Public Radio International member stations carrying the program. I noticed the latest market ratings for SF & Sac show some audio streams creeping in on the bottom of the ratings. I assume that is a relatively recent phenomenon. Or it may be an anomaly due to one PPM user happening to listen to a stream from time to time. Look at Leo LaPorte. He still has his radio connections otherwise he is pretty well self contained. Can't Art Bell (for example) or anyone else with a following do the same thing? But both Leo and Art are distributed by a network, Premiere, the distribution arm of Clear Channel. |
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blank wrote:
bumper music a bunch of times, with no host voice following, and a few times with someone mumbling of technical difficulty, then lots of repeated spots....took 25 minutes to get the show started. I'm reminded of a time when KXL in Portland was running Talknet (this goes back a few years obviously). Apparently they only part of an hour of the show and no backup, so they filled over 40 minutes with PSAs and ads. With no backup to a live program and no music in the format, what's a board op to do? At least in a music format you can play tunes and nobody's the wiser. But a dozen spots and people do notice. |
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In article , blank wrote: I wonder if there were any changes that might explain the technical difficulty which had KGO repeating insurance ads and promos at the beginning of Brian Copeland's Sunday show...They tried to start the bumper music a bunch of times, with no host voice following, and a few times with someone mumbling of technical difficulty, then lots of repeated spots....took 25 minutes to get the show started. That was a problem (or perhaps a cluster of problems) at KGO. It had nothing to do with the ABC Radio network news. Patty |
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ABC Lays Off 1/3 of Staff
On May 3, 2:11 pm, (David Kaye) wrote:
As of Friday, ABC (the TV people, who also provide coverage to Citadel's ABC Radio network) laid off 1/3 of its workforce. I could never understand why ABC had to have separate bureaus from their O&O stations. Now, I guess they won't. A 1/3 cut in staff is dramatic. Even Brian Rooney was let go. The NY Times reports that their London bureau , which covers much of Europe has gone from 100 people to about a dozen today. I'm reading a story from a 1934 radio magazine when the networks began building their news staffs. Prior to that time, the networks didn't have much of a news presence. Newspapers hated the competition so much that they began de-listing the networks from their daily radio program listing s. There was actualy a time when newspapers dropped radio coverage except fo r their own stations if they had them. My how times have changed. If they are just talking heads, well sad but maybe not the end of the world. If they were actually doing journalism, then it is a loss. You look at the women on Fox News and that Sex Pistols hit comes to mind: We're so pretty, oh so pretty, pretty vacant. |
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David Kaye had written:
| | I could never understand why ABC had to have separate bureaus from their O&O | stations. I never understood why the networks had to have their own bureaus and their own correspondents when their affiliate stations, in most areas, had perfectly capable news departments. I guess the network felt it got a better quality product that way. Somehow, on the radio side of things, it could be somewhat different. I remember contributing quite a few stories to the CBS network when I was a reporter in KTRH in Houston. Those stringer checks were a nice little bonus. | I'm reading a story from a 1934 radio magazine when the networks began | building their news staffs. Prior to that time, the networks didn't | have much of a news presence. Newspapers hated the competition so much that | they began de-listing the networks from their daily radio program listings. | There was actualy a time when newspapers dropped radio coverage except for | their own stations if they had them. My how times have changed. Now newspapers don't cover radio at all. -- Mark Roberts - E-Mail address is valid but I don't use Google Groups If you quote, please quote only relevant passages and not the whole article. |
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Mark Roberts wrote:
I never understood why the networks had to have their own bureaus and their own correspondents when their affiliate stations, in most areas, had perfectly capable news departments. During the days of NBC Monitor, there were lots of reports from affiliate stations. Likewise with Mutual. But CBS and ABC seemed to not like dealing with the affiliates much at all, stringers yes, but not affiliates. I guess the network felt it got a better quality product that way. I remember when ABC Radio had Peter Cleaveland stationed at KGO specifically to do network takes on Bay Area stories. We never heard him except on the network news. I'm sure he was a nice guy and all, but I don't remember his news coverage being any better than that of Ray Tannehill or others of the day who did news locally at KGO. Now newspapers don't cover radio at all. Well, times have changed, of course. The newspapers do cover TV to an annoying degree. |
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