November 15th, 2009 
joel Whispers became a shout this week as executives at Citadel Broadcasting are indicating that they may have to go Chapter 11 ahead of a scheduled January debt payment that the owners of WXKC, WXTA, WQHZ, and WRIE don’t have. To hear Jerry Del Colliano of Inside Music Media talk, there could be consequences for the last remaining local morning show in the group: The Breakfast Club.
For me, I think it would be crazy for Citadel to gore their only real cash cow, Classy 100. But a note of appreciation for Chuck and Brenda to the station would be timely.
I just sounded off, how about you? What’s your take on this challenging media environment? Did you spend any funny money on last week’s ETN millionaire auction? What’s the latest scoop at your media outlet? For all this and more, this open forum is our sounding board.
You can leave a comment, e-mail me at joel@nataliemedia.com or tweet@pressandtower.
Embrace the chaos!
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Citadel should do what GE/NBC are doing. Sell to someone with an idea of how to operate a property with the consumer in mind.
Citadel doen’t give a you know what about the Breakfast Club. They don’t even know it exists. It’s all about the bottom line…of which it seems there isn’t much of at Citadel.
What’s up with GoErie?
I wanted to check who died, read letters to the editor, and leave, as usual, but was sent to Google and a notification 38 minutes ago that “This site may harm your computer”. Geez, I’d hate to buy the paper today.
What’s wrong over there now???
“Search ResultsGoErie.com: Erie’s #1 Source for News and Information This site may harm your computer.
Nov 16, 2009 … Goerie.com and Erie Times-News are comprehensive sources for Erie, PA and Northwest PA local news and community information – also local …
http://www.goerie.com/ – 38 minutes ago – Similar -”
~~~from Google
November 16, 2009 12:50 pm
http://www.google.com/search?q=goerie&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ADBF_en
Link is safe to read. It is just Google.
They say clicking GoErie will harm your computer.
I thought it only harmed your mind.
After all WE did with converter boxes HD TV’s and everything else, read this article you won’t believe it.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/367021-Broadcasters_Defend_Their_Spectrum.php
Danny, et al,
At 1:04 PM Monday, @GoErie tweeted that the site review was completed, and GoErie.com should soon be removed from the Google watch list.
@GoErie Tweets the weather when we hit 50 degrees in the spring. I will wait for Google to give a thumbs up, and then go to “harm my mind” at the GoErie delicatessen of destruction.
But thanks for the heads up Joel. I just wasted 75 cents on the Friday paper, and would hate to waste another 75 cents needlessly today. I just wanna know who died.
Maybe you could link to Legacy and carry Obits here, at P&T, saving the entire globe a trip to computer hell.
Please?
This all comes back to a basic question: how much content can you cut before you become profitable? It is kind-of like taxing yourself into prosperity. From a business standpoint, these broadcast entities got into trouble (as did many, many other businesses) by buying properties priced many-times-over what they were actually worth, with capital they didn’t actually have, for interest payments they couldn’t possibly maintain, catastrophic market crash notwithstanding. Like with the Cleveland Browns and the Buffalo Bills—it’s more of a front-office problem than an on-field problem. Will switching quarterbacks and coaches again solve everything this time?
May I ask what journalistic purpose it served for the ETN to print the story about Domenico Crea and the previous charges filed against him? And did we really need to know about the drug paraphenilia? True, what he did was reckless…and he paid the ultimate price, plus he took two other lives wth him. But those charges are all moot now…and I see it as only adding more grief to his family and friends.
To me, it was irresponsible journalism.
The Times once ran a story about Matt Selker, a friend of Divecchio’s that he tried to get hired into a county position that he wasn’t qualified for. The Times felt the need to mention he had liens and judgments against him, which had nothing to do with him not being qualified for the job.
He wasn’t the first or the last underqualified crony to be put into a government position. That’s the problem I have with the Times. If that’s their stance, either air the dirty laundry of every unqualified hack that gets hired into a government job, or don’t do it at all. The same with Crea. Print the dirty laundry of every person involved in a fatal accident, or don’t do it all.
The digital age of TV news certainly has done plenty, especially to provide new material for America’s Funniest Videos!
I watched a flubbed news tease air in prime time on WSEE (quite entertaining) then, watched a news tease over a week old air on WJET. On the “live” side of news, I watched the main weathercaster on WJET wear a suit that was (A) way too tight on him and (B) still had the pleats in the back vents of the sportcoat. Perhaps in this tough economic times, the clothes truly are “on loan” from area retail advertisers…”PLease do not remove tags”.
I would really hate to see the Breakfast Club go. IMHO, it’s the last bastion of the REAL Erie area radio shows. Of course WCTL has the Morning Wake-up call, but that’s only heard by a specific audience (my hat’s off to Cap’n H and Roy Luke) and the Breakfast Club is well, classic. Keep the Club or Classy gets dropped from my morning drive to school in favor of something else. Please, I really don’t want to see another sellout like BOB.