LEST YOU FORGET HOW TERRIBLE, HOW DISGUSTING, HOW THOUROUGHLY HORRIBLE a company like Cumulus is; a company that has NO IDEA how to run radio stations because they only know how to RUIN radio stations because, as I've said, OVER and OVER, THEY ARE NOT RADIO PEOPLE!
You want further proof? Do you need any more evidence than this latest scathing piece that only further makes the case about their latest "leader", another wonderful pick from the latest cloud company. Another moron who has no radio experience which automatically makes her prime human real estate for the dumb and dumber crowd.
The company that KILLED the greatest radio station in the world. The company that Ronnnnnnnn Owens said was great and who found the time to say the new format would be "just great!"--Cue Tony the Tiger.
They don't know radio. Their stock continues to fall to penny-status. They'll be going bankrupt any day now and their top suits will probably have to forego the shrimp and lobster dishes and dine on some fine chicken.
But, what the fuck? When you have paid enablers like Ronnnnnnnnn, "Copie", Christine Craft and the like doing mercenary work, why give a damn. Dumb and Dumber.
Must have been Cumulus who planned Candlestick Park way back when. Total incompetents all around!
ReplyDeleteI can't stand Ronn for what he did during the Purge of 2011, & as for Craft...I gotta take a dump.
ReplyDeleteOk Rich I agree with you 100%, I loved the old KGO, unfortunately it is gone, and looks like it won't be back. However, as bad as KGO is 910 I think is worse, the only person I can listen to these days on 910 is Alan Colmes, as you earlier blog suggested Gil is boring, although he can still do a decent interview, certainly Joel and Corey, is worse, and the new guys that are on from 4 to 6 p.m. is totally inane, mindless chatter, I have listened to them about 3 or 4 times, but don't think I lasted 10 minutes. Armstrong and Getty can be funny for about an hour or so, but 5 hours of A&G too much. So as bad as KGO is, it is still better than most other stations, I didn't care for the way Ronn reacted to the firings of 2011, but I commute a lot, and often the radio is my only source of diversion and entertainment, so I will listen to whomever is on and whom I find interesting. Certainly Ronn, is better than Gil, Christine can be very interesting, although I don't always care for her personality, I like Brian Copeland and Pat Thurston.
ReplyDeleteSo while I miss the old KGO, and agree with Rich that Cumulus people have no idea how to run a quality station, however it seems it is not just Cumulus, certainly Clear Channel is no better, so I make do with whatever crumbs is being thrown to me as a listener, I don't have a choice, and there isn't much sense in beating a dead horse to death, which I feel Rich is doing with his constant harping on Ronn, and Cumulus.
the radio biz is in the toilet right now. so i dont have a problem with those in the biz refusing to badmouth any company
ReplyDeleteterrestrial radio is dying, but dont just blame cumulus or any of the other conglomerates...blame the telecommunications act of 96...which couldve been fixed during obama's first term...but both he and the then dem congress, totally dropped the ball
there is no competition and without competition, you get stagnation
and extended stagnation brings death
know what i didnt hear once during the past three months since ive been back in the city? any extended conversations about local issues...like our recent election
almost everything was national...or on silly topics of a national bent
absurd
Actually you're way off, of course because you want to do badly bring Obama into it. Sound like a know nothing.
DeleteCompetition is what killed radio.
It was also signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton, but competition was a big factor. So was the failure of bean counters to see what radio people had knows for years...that product value was more than just simple "branding".
DeleteThe Telecomm Act also created the environment for the bean counters to trash the industry.
DeleteRon sacrificing himself would have made no difference whatsoever. They weren't going to change their strategy if he quit and if he made a stink on air, they'd have fired him. He had little to bargain with considering they were committed to firing almost all the talent the station had to begin with, what's one more? Yeah they wanted to keep him because he had been winning that time slot, but they'd have gotten rid of him if he caused trouble.
ReplyDeleteI don't care much for him and haven't listened to him for ages, the reasonable middle became schtick and uninteresting a long time ago. But that said, if the guy wants to keep working and didn't get fired like the rest of them, so what.
Do you think the others would have stayed if they weren't fired? Probably most of them.
And Rich, you have to stop mocking Kate Scott's sexual orientation. I know you think she's pushing it in your face when she mentions her wife, but almost every other broadcaster talks about their spouse or their kids and usually both. I didn't consider you homophobic, but let's face it, you've only brought it up because she's gay and has done the very same thing. And that's pretty homophobic. My grandfather, RIP, would not make fun of her the way you do.
Try not to sound like you miss the 1950's and pre-gay rights.
I miss the 50s and I was born in the 70s.
DeleteIt's the Ronnnnn love fest the last few weeks. Everybody praising him from his recovering from brain surgery, 40 years at KGO and now the Radio Hall of Fame. Yawwwwn.
ReplyDeletein after-hours, Cumulus went to .35. Pathetic. As pathetic as KGO and most of KNBR.
ReplyDeleteI put this elsewhere, but NASDAQ gave Cumulus a delisting warning today. They have six months to post 10 consecutive closing prices above 1, or else they're gone from the National Market Lists and off to the pink sheets. They'll likely to have to get a new 5-character symbol that's like the scarlet letter of the securities industry for common stock.
ReplyDeleteCumulus stock? Buy low ... sell high!
ReplyDeleteCumulus stock? Buy low ... lose it all!
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