Following up on this earlier post, which I found over at the Carolina Stompers: I hear that four people have been laid off Clear Channel in Asheville. The Stompers confirm that information, and add this:
A source tells the Carolina Stompers that 3 sales associates and the production manager have been laid off at Clear Channel of Asheville and more lay offs are expected. “Morale is not good”.
This economy really, really sucks.
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I saw the Stompers reply to radiofollower on their website. Just to say you have one reporter and one director doesn’t mean anything. What kind of education and qualification do these people have? Did they check the information with more than one source, or just take the word of a disgruntled person with an ax to grind. I think radiofollower’s point was the accuracy of the information, not what titles they give themselves.
We replied to "radio follower" and "mark" at http://www.carolinastompers.com
We apologize for the mistake and it has been corrected.
Please…oh please Jason, don’t start using Carolina Stompers as a source. They can’t seem to get much right. Just this past weekend they published a headline that made it seem as though Matt Mittan would be fired from Clear Channel. While it’s true that they did not come right our and SAY that Mittan was about to be fired, but they used trickery and a clever headline to make it sound that way. Not sure if you listened or not but Matt is still running his mouth on the radio.
That’s just poor journalism. And this is not the first time Carolina Stompers has published flat out wrong information.
All part-timers were let go as well. The "promotions" manager not the production manager was let go.
Regarding the Clear Channel cutbacks: The Production Director did not lose his job. There were, however, cuts in the promotions department. I’m sorry when anyone loses his or her job in radio..or any business for that fact. It just sucks. Careful what you hear from the Carolina Stompers. They are not an official news organization (although they would like to think of themselves in that realm) and rumour shouldn’t count as the truth. We’re talking about people’s jobs.
They laid off Sam Steele at Rock 104.9 as well, he did the 7-12am m-f shows I believe. Now all they have is the manager and the kid that did a weekend show. That’s good thinking…
Wow, that’s unusual for a broadcast company to cut sales staff since they generally are only paid commission and are the ones bringing in dollars. From my experience at Clear Channel, it was always programming people who were let go because they could always just have somebody in another market voice-track a show and make it sound local.