The furloughs at KGO have begun in earnest--morning show anchor, Nikki Medoro, (pictured) was the latest to stay at home this week. Chip Franklin and Mark Thompson are due to take their furlough next week.
Angie Coiro has been filling in for Medoro and figures to work next week for Franklin.
I was less than thrilled to listen to Coiro whose sounded overly chirpy and way too giddy --plus, Coiro's internet connection was downright putrid.
Coiro was back in studio this (Thursday) morning.
As part of the furloughs, host work a "3 and1 shift"--three weeks on, one week off."
Get used to it.
With so many people home listening to radio and watching TV, you'd think things would be better for broadcast.
ReplyDeleteThey're not listening while they're driving.
ReplyDeleteThat does not make sense, I use to have a long commute, and talk radio made it more interesting and bearable. Of course it depends on the host, if I have a choice between Rush and Hannity, I will listen for a few minutes and then switch to music. I do listen to some right wing host, I like Tom Sullivan, and use to like Michael Medved, but he was taking of 860 and replaced with Sebastian Gorka, I guess Medved was a little too critical of Trump at times.
DeleteHow do they save money by furloughing which requires extra payments to someone to then fill the shift?
ReplyDeletewas thinking the exact same thing..the one person who will never take time off is john rothman, wonder why they didnt just ask him to cover all the shifts all the time, he would need just a half hour to run back and forth to calmart to load up on stringbeans
DeleteI thought Coiro was far more Listenable than Medoro.
ReplyDeleteAgreed! Medoro is clearly the amateur hour(s).
DeleteFrankly, I like Coiro against Thurstan. I find her more open to opinion than Thurstan and more level in her responses. I see no problem with this line-up. Now, get rid of the Crapster and all would be fine.
ReplyDeletePat Thurston used to be on 95.7 The Express (KPIX FM).
ReplyDeleteOn April 7th, due to the COVID-19 induced faltering add revenue, Cumulus's CEO Mary Berner announced 90-day furloughs for non-critical Cumulus employees (though company-paid benefits continue). Critical employees must instead take either 3-weeks unpaid leave in 1-week stints or 90-day pay cuts. Apparently most employees are given their choice. So don't expect to see John Rothmann furloughed.
ReplyDeleteThe advantage of furloughs to employees is that they allow them to apply for today's unusually generous federally-enhanced unemployment benefits. However, any host that can possibly afford it should take pay cuts over furloughs. Furloughing a host forces KGO to pay a guest-host, and KGO thus saves insignificant money. Worse, per tinkle-down economics, the lost opportunity for cost-savings essentially forces the necessary financial cost-savings burden downward upon the host's underlings. Perhaps a pay-cut wasn't an affordable option for Nikki, but I don't think we can same the same of Chip Franklin or even Mark Thompson. Boo on them if they could have taken a temporary pay-cut instead of a furlough.
Where is the edit button? On April 7th, due to COVID-19 induced faltering ad revenue, Cumulus's CEO... (& other edits..)
DeleteSo in a week Rosie Perez will grace us all with a whole weeks worth of stories about sheltering in place with her husband. Can't wait.
ReplyDeleteHe'll hang himself or drive an icepick into his ear before the week is up.
Deletehow much did kgo pay for the world's smartest housewife, nikki, for that makeover they gave her
ReplyDeleteIf your regular host gets say $ 130,000 a year in salary. That's $ 2,500 a week. So KGO saves that, now if some covers the role on an hourly basis say 3 hours live and an 1 hour of prep a day for 5 days a week that's 20 hours of pay. I think the SAGAFTRA (union) rate for a fill in would be be far less than $ 2,500 a week,
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the furloughs at KNBR, Rich? You reported they were imminent weeks ago.
ReplyDeleteNikki is better without Chip. The news guy Brett, damn he is such an a$$ kisser. Dumb laughs especially on Mark T. show. Almost ready to say OK Mark drop your pants, Brett is waiting. All KGO host lean only one in their political views, they never read my text messages whenever I take the other side and call them out.
ReplyDeleteDepend on who you are listening to John read messages from someone opposing his views, on almost every program. If he has a lot of callers then he focus on that. Actually he reads emails, text is new to KGO, try emailing, perhaps you will have better luck.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy Coiro, but the one I'd like to see back on fill ins is Christine Kraft. That was entertaining radio. She took a position and eviscerated ignorant callers. (and her term Schwartzengrabber - hilarious)
ReplyDeleteChristine Craft? Break out the barf bags!
ReplyDeleteI agree 100%
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