On the Muser showgram on Tuesday, March 23, the gentlemen were reminiscing about talking about taking one's check into an actual bank to deposit. Someone mentioned that perhaps they would do that someday, when Rich said: “We don’t allow that anymore.”
Rich is an assistant program director. I don't know what assistant program directors do. Come to think of it, I don't know what a non-assistant program director does at a station like The Ticket. Answers email from irate listeners, I guess. I've lived here for seven years and other than post-7 PM and 10 AM on Saturdays, I don't recall any program showing the result of any direction other heading in the same one they were heading seven years ago.
Maybe the PD rides herd on questionable on-air content and noodges the shows in one direction or another, or asks that a particular demo get a little more love on the air. Which means the assistant program director probably carries some of his water on that subject as well.
I have come to admire Rich Phillips's on-air work, as I reported here. But I sense that there are some verrrry spicy dynamics going on there. Nothing I can put my finger on.
But when I heard that "we" back on March 23, I thought I felt the organisms in that studio stiffen just a little.
Probably just my imagination.
I think he was referring tp that fact that Cummulus (we) requires Direct Deposit. This came up when Grego was there during a "Technology Grego Won't Embrace" bit. He was one of the last to enroll in DD per corporate mandate
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly right, Better Way. My point, though, was that he identified himself with management by use of the word "we."
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