Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Layoff lane

Cuts at Clear Channel Chicago and 65 layoffs at Oxygen, which was taken over by NBC Universal over the weekend.

Among the cuts at CC Chicago: Armando Rivera, a mixer-turned-assistant program director and music director at WVAZ (V103); WGCI's nighttime jock Victor "The Diz" Blackful; and overnighter Alexx Dupri at Top 40 WKSC-FM. The cuts at Clear Channel mirror those that happened recently at their clusters across the country, including Los Angeles, Dallas, San Francisco, and Detroit (where twenty positions were recently eliminated.)

- Check out this blog post from Cleveland media veteran John Gorman, and scroll down to the comments section and read some of the Chicago-related posts, especially from one poster named Break Dance King. Couldn't said it better myself.

"We are re-expressing our assets to achieve greater results", says a manager at the Chicago cluster. Gee, how can you achieve greater results by firing the assets? Looking at WGCI's and WLIT's recent numbers, I say you guys need to do a whole lot more than "rearrange the assets".

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