Comments on: Deep Background for December 13-19, 2009 http://www.pressandtower.com/2009/12/deep-background-for-december-13-19-2009/ Erie media blog - Connecting creators and consumers Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:46:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bob Bohen http://www.pressandtower.com/2009/12/deep-background-for-december-13-19-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-12658 Bob Bohen Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:41:15 +0000 http://www.pressandtower.com/?p=1803#comment-12658 Good luck, Jill! One of the good people to work with in Erie tv! Take it from me, sometimes the grass may not be as long or as thick (you can't always cut a "35" into it!!!), but it is greener!!! Good luck, Jill! One of the good people to work with in Erie tv! Take it from me, sometimes the grass may not be as long or as thick (you can’t always cut a “35″ into it!!!), but it is greener!!!

]]> By: PR http://www.pressandtower.com/2009/12/deep-background-for-december-13-19-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-12652 PR Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:39:41 +0000 http://www.pressandtower.com/?p=1803#comment-12652 Tim, It doesn't help that NBC is in the toilet ratings wise. Selling time with the Peacock's lousy numbers is probably a real stretch. On the other hand CBS has great numbers...especially on Monday nights. Maybe sales should try to work out some package deals for both networks. Might help boost sales. Tim,
It doesn’t help that NBC is in the toilet ratings wise. Selling time with the Peacock’s lousy numbers is probably a real stretch. On the other hand CBS has great numbers…especially on Monday nights. Maybe sales should try to work out some package deals for both networks. Might help boost sales.

]]> By: Tim http://www.pressandtower.com/2009/12/deep-background-for-december-13-19-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-12649 Tim Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:06:11 +0000 http://www.pressandtower.com/?p=1803#comment-12649 If Mr Lilly feels the need to continue to gut the news department to boost profit why doesn't he light a fire under the sales department to try and boost revenue? A good account executive spends most of his/her time out making sales calls - not spending most of their time in the sales office. Perhaps cut the mileage allowance? Eliminate the cell phone reimbursement (if there is one)? Perhaps eliminate some underperforming account executives? Maybe the management structure in sales is bloated and needs to be trimmed? (I'm sure I will stir up a hornets nest since most salesmen/women feel they are absolutely vital to the company - lol) I'm sure through the elimination of redundant policies and eliminating deadwood (underperforming salesmen) Mr Lilly could boost revenue between 2.35 and 4.5%...yes, even in this "challenging" economy. Another way to enhance revenue is to spend money to ensure a vibrant, robust news operation. It can be done. The impossible can be achieved. Revenue can be enhanced, profits can be improved and the news department can be expanded and it can survive....hell, it can THRIVE. Money just has to be spent. I would love 30 minutes of Mr. Lilly's time to explain (in plain understandable English) just how it can all work. Mr. Lilly doesn't realize the vast untapped potential at WICU. He's sitting on the goose that is laying the golden egg - and he is starving the damn goose to death! What an unnecessary, inconvenient shame! If Mr Lilly feels the need to continue to gut the news department to boost profit why doesn’t he light a fire under the sales department to try and boost revenue?

A good account executive spends most of his/her time out making sales calls – not spending most of their time in the sales office.

Perhaps cut the mileage allowance? Eliminate the cell phone reimbursement (if there is one)?

Perhaps eliminate some underperforming account executives? Maybe the management structure in sales is bloated and needs to be trimmed? (I’m sure I will stir up a hornets nest since most salesmen/women feel they are absolutely vital to the company – lol)

I’m sure through the elimination of redundant policies and eliminating deadwood (underperforming salesmen) Mr Lilly could boost revenue between 2.35 and 4.5%…yes, even in this “challenging” economy.

Another way to enhance revenue is to spend money to ensure a vibrant, robust news operation.

It can be done. The impossible can be achieved. Revenue can be enhanced, profits can be improved and the news department can be expanded and it can survive….hell, it can THRIVE. Money just has to be spent.

I would love 30 minutes of Mr. Lilly’s time to explain (in plain understandable English) just how it can all work.

Mr. Lilly doesn’t realize the vast untapped potential at WICU. He’s sitting on the goose that is laying the golden egg – and he is starving the damn goose to death!

What an unnecessary, inconvenient shame!

]]> By: Larry http://www.pressandtower.com/2009/12/deep-background-for-december-13-19-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-12646 Larry Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:44:30 +0000 http://www.pressandtower.com/?p=1803#comment-12646 So Jacqueline Policastro is leaving WSEE at the end of this month...I heard to go somewhere in the midwest. St. Louis? Regardless, she was about the best thing going for that station. Don't blame her though. What a talent and Erie loses another great anchor. So Jacqueline Policastro is leaving WSEE at the end of this month…I heard to go somewhere in the midwest.
St. Louis? Regardless, she was about the best thing going for that station. Don’t blame her though. What a talent and Erie loses another great anchor.

]]> By: PR http://www.pressandtower.com/2009/12/deep-background-for-december-13-19-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-12644 PR Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:02:56 +0000 http://www.pressandtower.com/?p=1803#comment-12644 If you would like to tell Brian Lilly what you think about how he has ruined WICU/WSEE you can call 814-454-5201 (toll free 800-533-8812) extension 222... or his email is blilly@wicu12.com. If you would like to tell Brian Lilly what you think about how he has ruined WICU/WSEE you can call 814-454-5201 (toll free 800-533-8812) extension 222… or his email is blilly@wicu12.com.

]]> By: PR http://www.pressandtower.com/2009/12/deep-background-for-december-13-19-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-12639 PR Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:41:28 +0000 http://www.pressandtower.com/?p=1803#comment-12639 BL continues the debacle he calls management. How long before the ship sinks with the BL at the helm telling everyone to "stay calm and the situation is under control?" WICU=the Titanic of TV. BL continues the debacle he calls management. How long before the ship sinks with the BL at the helm telling everyone to “stay calm and the situation is under control?”
WICU=the Titanic of TV.

]]> By: Garth Jensen http://www.pressandtower.com/2009/12/deep-background-for-december-13-19-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-12634 Garth Jensen Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:22:41 +0000 http://www.pressandtower.com/?p=1803#comment-12634 Kinda shocked about the Jill McCormick news (I liked her on 12 News Today.) But regarding the WSEE rumours, isn't Joey Stevens a BIG draw for their Carribean audience? If they pull lots of advertising $$$ from the WSEE Carribean feed as well as the One Carribean Weather cable channel, why would they get rid of him? It makes me think the "list" above may not be that reliable. Kinda shocked about the Jill McCormick news (I liked her on 12 News Today.) But regarding the WSEE rumours, isn’t Joey Stevens a BIG draw for their Carribean audience? If they pull lots of advertising $$$ from the WSEE Carribean feed as well as the One Carribean Weather cable channel, why would they get rid of him? It makes me think the “list” above may not be that reliable.

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