December 7th, 2008 
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Heard that Rocket 101′s Sammy Stone and the Wolf’s Program Director are the latest budget casualties…
I have check 93.9 the Wolf’s website and Bobby D is no longer listed on the DJ page. Apparently, he is gone. Bobby D “was” the station’s Programming Director and an on-air personality during the afternoon drive from 3 to 7, leading into Whitney Allen’s syndicated show.
On Rocket 101′s website, Sammy Stone is not listed with the DJs. Connoisseur must have show her the door, too. She had an afternoon air shift at the station.
This is not my idea of a good Monday morning. I really don’t know what these radio giants think that they are doing. Apparently, they DO NOT care about quality and have NO intention of providing Erie with a decent radio product. I am extremely disappointed. We have been let down once again.
Would someone at Connoisseur Media like to explain this latest move to us?
I have also heard that Man Behind The Scenes aka “The Midnight Producer”, John Kleiner was demoted from a full time position to a part time slot. Part Time = no benefits. Stay in good health, John, whatever you do.
If I may offer some insight, there is a bad side to having corporate ownership of Erie area radio stations. When stations in other cities under the same corporate banner suffer, so do we! It’s a trickle down effect.
Hate to say it, but I guess it’s time to look at satelite radio!
K104Ever, I purchased Sirius Satellite radio six months ago and I will NEVER go back to regular radio. So nice to have CHOICES of what you want to listen to, when you want to listen to it. Even better without the constantly annoying sweepers and lame promos!
I HIGHLY recommend Sirius Satellite radio!
I am a subscriber to XM radio, but I don’t believe it is the be-all, end-all to radio. It is great if you want a wide variety and you travel all over the nation, but as for me, I’m Erie born and raised.
What about Erie radio? Do we simply give up? I say “NO!” with profound confidence. There has to be someone somewhere who will take on the Corporate Suits, and be successful in the fight. Great ideas still come from people with passion, not computers!
I’m sorry that you guys are giving up so easily. Therein lies the power of the corporate suits.
Well, it is December 9th, 2008.
Erie Blogs reports that today is the anniversary of Kristallnacht in Germany AND the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
This was a surprise since the Erie Times- News gave full coverage to Kristallnacht a month ago, including the story of a Millcreek man who lived throuigh it as a Jew.
It was a remarkable story. Why? The Erie Times-News got the event date correct, unlike Erie Blogs.
Above the announcements of the anniversary of these events, Erie Blogs chides USA Today on sensationalism with “Air Quality in Schools” stories.
Erie Readers = stunned at the hypocracy.
In keeping with the local journalistic Blog Standards [ISO 1908], Erie Blogs is celebrating Christmas on January 25th as usual, and the annual Independence Day is now August 4th, as the Founding Father’s preferred, and Erie Blogs has finally sanctioned.
NOT to be outdone, Dennis has his own history breaking event at “This is my blog” known as Erie PA Today. Dennis is the best selling author of “No Comment is the Best Comment” policy.
On this historic day, December 9, 2008, Dennis has published a comment at Erie PA Today
[moment of silence, please].
Dennis insists that comments MUST have a name attached, be nice, and can vary from his views, if he feels like it.
In keeping with the policy of Names attached and NO anonymous, the first comment in history at Erie PA Today was presented by the distinguished “Name Withheld”, sometimes known as Phil English, who wrote a brilliant, some say breath-taking, comment praising ….. Phil English (approved by Dennis too).
On This Day, December 9th, is a local blog production designed to dumb down the local populous in a way that the Erie Times-News just can’t compete.
Erie Blogs will be providing full coverage, of the historic
Erie PA Today comment number one, in a live blog session, on the anniversary of this event,…..
uh, February 12th.
Stay tuned to the city that gets the news wrong, in every media known to mankind.
NBC CEO Jeff Zucker announced yesterday that Jay Leno will have a 10pm show “sometime next fall.” Zucker also announced the willingness of NBC to program fewer hours in Prime Time or give up programming a night altogether (such as Saturday Night) in order to “avoid what happened to Tribune Company” (filing bankruptcy) Zucker also announced that Digital content won’t be “the cash cow” NBC once thought it could be – OUCH!
Wow! Overnight the TV business no longer looks to be healthy. Let’s hope NBC doesn’t program fewer hours in prime time…WICU owner Lilly Broadcasting might just program infomercials in Prime Time!?
This will be an additional hit on GE stock, parent of NBC.
Locally, GE Locomotive in Erie made about 1/5 of all profit for GE last year. Since then, significant assembly has gone to China (announced last month).
Our government gave GE more bailout money than most. In return, your TV channel 12 will produce LESS for you, and tax you for the privilege.
It appears the only thing stable anymore is the Law of Gravity. And, don’t hold your breath on that.
You were right about the “hit” on GE stock, Danny. General Electric Company closed at 17.78, down 1.10 or 5.83% ouch!
Tim,
This is more than a day to day stock level going up/down.
Other variables are at large, chiefly, the end of the year for tax writeoffs. Loser stocks are discarded, and losses cut, in order to reduce taxes paid for 2008. So fluctuation between now and as late as Bush leaving on January 20 mean little.
But, the effect on our country with what is going on is lethal, at best.
You may recall that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics formally disbanned and it was every region for themselves since. The lack of an economy determined the end of that empire. Not bombs.
We currently have a country that can end up the same very swiftly. We are a canary-in-the mine-shaft right now.
GE (NBC daddy and mommy) borrowed about $130 Billion in bailout for liquidity. That borrowed money was also borrowed ……from the Chinese since we have no money, just debt.
GE then took the bailout money and went to China and opened a choo-choo assembly plant. In effect, American taxpayers borrowed money from China (pays interest to the Chinese for it) and that money creates jobs in China.
Here is the Press and Tower angle on this fiasco.
1) It will devastate Erie for good when GE pulls transportation from here to China, or worse, the Chinese counterfit a GE train and then assemble it there.
2) Our news media, like NBC CANNOT report that THEIR dad is having Chinese financial incest. The American people can not get critical information out of the American media.
(I read the Financial Times and several overseas sources to find out what the hell is happening, since no where on our media formats is information dispensed. It is all entertainment puffed as “news”.
Once the mergers occur in media, {likely CNN and CBS getting married, and perhaps a shotgun wedding for NBC and ABC}, the ability to believe anything from any reporter is zilch.
Personally, I think CNN and CBS is a go, and ABC will be ok, but NBC will find out how GE treats a spinoff and disappear from the map.
This is not about enjoyment of a particular TV station in Erie, PA. Media largely affects the American way of life as we know it, and they are fumbling every time they touch the ball.
I hate to be the sole commenter here saying our pants are on fire, but time is of the essence and some real tough decisions are coming in the next 90 to 180 days.
Bugs Bunny just may show up at the end of this Loonney Tune and say “Tha-aat’s A-llll, F-fffolks!”
And he might be right.
Look at our town.
We have NO Braodband Wireless from anyone (although ATT told me they will procure it for Erie in
January).
Opium growers in Afghanistan have it to determine crop prices for opium on the worlds market.
Ther presently supply 92% of world opium consumption. We can’t check Broadband Wireless to find the price of a carrot at Erie County Farms! Hello??
Along comes Obama plan for Broadband as a spur to the economy next year. Two things: 1) is it wireless or landline? and, 2) who in this town is meeting Obama to put the Broadband in Erie so we can work in a global economy? ANYBODY?
Does it matter? You bet.
Montana is currently having entire TOWNS teach English language via wireless Broadband to Koreans. If you can read or speak English in Montana, they hook you up with a family or company in Korea and you are a teacher of English.
This is creative job creation.
Erie can not enter the game.
ETN and Scott Bremner and Amanda Post do not report an iota on this and wonder why their jobs diminish.
We can come back in a couple years and have all the Jack Tirak-like shouts and laments. But someone in media better shake the peaches out of the tree soon or there will be nothing to say. Pat Howard can’t.
Ed Mead has no idea what Twitter is.
Lilly and the rest are playing money and power games.
We do not have the luxury of time. It is deteriorating too fast.
Gas was almost $4 a gallon in summer and heading below a buck a gallon before next Easter. That windfall profits was targetted to be confiscated in taxation.
The proposer of that won the election,…..and promptly declared he was kidding and not gonna do it afterall.
Things will quiet down on terrorism. They sell no oil and are pretty broke in regard to cash flow now. Food comes before m issiles. These windows of opportunity are all ignored.
GE needs to put a Mass Transit from the Atlantic to the Pacifi for flatbed transports alone. Cargo is the money, not people. Our roads take less beatinmg from 18 wheelers. Maintenance by PennDot can go down.
The tractors and trailers are on high speed transit systems. Why isn’t Brian Williams talking about this?
Cuz his daddy is GE. It is a blatant form of conflict of interest. Jack Welch did this.
Oh oh. Joel just spotted all my ones and zeros.
I’m outta here.
A canary just fell dead there on my right.
Just noticed that WQLN is now broadcasting its “Q-Life” channel OTA on 54.2–maybe they’ve been doing this for a while, but my converter box just picked it up last night. More free channels = good.
CBS CEO says that in “10 years CBS won’t have any affiliates…and will feed its signal directly to home satellite.”
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/cbs-ceo-ad-rates-flat/story.aspx?guid=%7BBCF393AD%2D080B%2D419F%2D9245%2DC6A014BE7653%7D&dist=msr_1
WOW!
Over at PBRTV, Tom Lavery reports that local college radio station WMCE 88.5/104.9 is adopting a full-time jazz music format in February, becoming “Jazz FM.”
Here’s a link to the station website: erieradio.com
Check out Jazz FM’s Myspace page: myspace.com/eriejazz
The news story posted on PBRTV: pbrtv.com/blog/entry_810.php
Not good news for Classical music fans since MCE played a lot more than WQLN-FM does.