The Ville Voice website is reporting that WAMZ on-air personality Bobby Jack Murphy is no longer with Clear Channel. An ad for a replacement is already up on AllAccess.com
. The bloodletting at Clear Channel continue.
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The former radio station “Louie,” now WLGX-FM, 100.5, is getting some reaction, not all of it good, to the announcement that it will feature Gen-X music. We’ll skip the hype from Clear Channel and note that there are no DJs, hence no labor costs locally. Comments here and here. Sample playlist: The most recent Arbitron ratings for the Louisville area are available, and, once more, WHAS and WAMZ are tops in the market, with the proviso that ratings are released only for subscribing stations. (WFPK/WFPL are not included.) You can see the whole list here. A video from some years back of Steve Ferguson’s playing “Outer Space Boogie,” when they all had hair. There’s going to be a wedding on Fender’s “Den of Sin” show. Sonny and Sheri from Hillbilly Hotdogs www.hillbillyhotdogs.com (from West Virginia) are getting married on the show on June 14, 2009, at 7pm. Sonny and Sheri have been featured several times on the Food Network’s “Drive-Ins, Diners and Dives with Host Guy Fierri.”
On May 28, 1949, WNAS FM 88.1 (New Albany High School) went on the air as the first high school FM station. The student-made promos tout their musical diversity in their playlist. Liberty Media saved Sirius XM from bankruptcy with a $530 million loan infusion yesterday. While the satellite service was not in danger of going dark, it does mean different management people will have some say-so as the Sirius / XM merger plans go forward. TheStreet.com has details Reuters reports that Clear Channel will cut 1,500 jobs, mostly in advertising sales, and replace more local shows with syndicated content. Will Coyote be the last to go? Recent articles in the media have suggested that Clear Channel Communications is on track for some restructuring, particularly of the cost-cutting variety. This recent article in the New York Post claims that the cost-cutting will begin on Tuesday, January 20 – inauguration day. Precise numbers were not available, the Post says, but the company [...] A post on Rocky Knight’s blog reveals that Mainline Communications, owners of WLRS 105.1 FM, terminated all the on-air staff at the staff on October 13. Apparently, the company did the same elsewhere in their chain. The WLRS website lists no on-air staff. |
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