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The shift will be voicetracked by WKQI/Detroit's midday talent.

So...now Z100 is voice-tracked in mid-days and afternoons?

LOL! That is the most pathetic thing I have ever heard!
2 voicedtracked shifts? Z100 couldn't get any worse!

This is a very sad state of radio, especially for Z100. Im confused of how a staion that makes tons of money can't even afford to get a live airstaff. Salmonella is correct, that is really pathetic.

Maybe the parent has other money problems.

Cutting staff on money making stations to carry non-money making ones perhaps?

THIS IS A GREAT IDEA! In fact I think that there should be a law that every station should be required to carry one live segment then they can VT or simulcast the other 20 hours I hope these companies wise up and start broadcasting from a centralized location to REALLY control those costs....

Now from the Clear Channel studios in Houston...
This is Coast to coast COUNTRY broadcasting on 287 stations 24 hours per day..........

CBS RADIO PRESENTS.... the NATIONAL Classic Rock Show...classic rock 24/7 from our studio in New York...................

and on and on....

Sounds like a solid "BIG RADIO" plan to me.

Then once in place, they can VT those too!

Keep a local sales office, and in some markets keep a local news person too!

Know I completely understand why they are called "Cheap channel". If Z100 is hurting now, just wait tell" Movin" eats them for breakfast. NOW is not the time for Z100 to be "cheap" especially with some MAJOR competition coming at them!

I talked to Kobe Austin about two weeks ago, Z should have taken better care of him,Kobe said he quit, but that was the beginning it seems of what; 3 jocks that have been let go now within 6 months, I'm amazed Buckhead is still here, I figured he would say screw Portland bye now, but if you make good bank & have a contract Hell, Portland's a beautiful town, but getting some great talent off the air, and shipping in vt. will save cc a buc or two, the listener's probably can't tell, but radio people that know the inside can tell when a station has something really good going, but it seems now there gonna be on the fence, z can't afford to be making these moves, way too much competition; as it seems we now have 4 chr's in the mkt. I'll bet there moving there studio's, that's always a good reason to get rid of your true talent.
sorry, I just had to vent, back to you!

Budget will not allow local live talent, but budget will allow manager bonus. Also, need to make up for costs of installing and operating the HD.

I won't listen to voice tracked corporate radio when there are so many other sources of entertainment available.
I don't even listen to 1260 because 90% of it is voice tracked.

Z100 is a revolving door for air talent. They never stay long, and a lot of them are forgetable. Back in the day, jocks stayed at that station 7-8 years, and people still remember a lot of the original jocks that made that station GREAT! Great talent makes a station GREAT! Ask anybody who grew up in the 80's and 90's if they know who Tony Martinez is, or if they know who Val Ring was and I guarentee you a majority will know exactly who they were. So You can say all you want that Jocks are not a huge part of radio, BUT really they are. Z100 back in the day WAS HUGE, all across the country. THE AIR TALENT was the reason why it was so huge, they had great personalities that people LOVED!
Im so happy I was a kid in the late 80's and Early 90's when Z100 was truely a great station. It's people like Tony Martinez, Val Ring, John Murphy,
Stacey Lynn, Dk Erickson, Nelson, Dr, Doug. I'll remember alot of these people tell that day that I die. They were all alot of fun to listen to on the radio.

Might I add they were a lot fun to work with too.

You can't compare Z100 today VS 7-8 years ago because the station today sounds like a complete shit hole. Its not a creative outlet for people to put on the best possible radio for the public. They have to save every single penny, which means destroying the integrity of the station by putting on a half assed product. Z100 is unlistenable.
Most of those people you listed abouve, Timberfake, will be out of radio soon because they have realized what an absolute joke this industry has turned into.

Salmonella-

All the names listed above are still in radio or some kind of broadcast medium. Like me they love it too much just to junk it. Those of us who have a few years under out belts know how to ride out the changes and format changes and everything else.

Sometimes this business can be really really good to you and other times it sucks. If you love it you find a way to stay in it. No Joke!

Still.... shipping in a VT from DEE-troit?!?!?

No one even semi local who might have a feel for the region can VT it?

SORRY, BAD DEAL! Shows that there is NO INTEREST IN SERVING THE LOCAL AUDIENCE, nor does the company seem to believe in the importance of LOCALIZED broadcasting......

Hey, a D-JAY IS A D-JAY... right?

W-R-O-N-G!

Kobe Austin wasn't all that good...but at least he was live. These days, Chase is the best example of talent on Z100. Maybe he can be upgraded to afternoons?

The main reason I don't often listen to Z100: The +3% pitched up music, which makes the station sound absolutely ridiculous!

Kobe Austin sucked, thats why he was fired.
He sounded like some young "punk" kid.
I thought Kelly sounded good and I can't understand why they fired her. Chase also sounds great, one of the better talents that Z100 has had in a long time!

Infact I think Kelly should apply at "movin", she would sound great on that station!

Is Crazy as this sounds, I heard "Rizza" do a sign off break sat. nite, anyone know anything about this?

what do you mean a sign off break sat night? At what station. Please explain 411.

I heard Brooke Fox pulling a weeking shift...and sounding very good!

Brooke Fox pulling a weekend shift?
Try pulling a voice tracked shift because they have no money to hire more than 2 dj's on Z100! That station is pathetic. Smaller market radio stations put on better radio than Z100. That station is prime example of how this industry is DYING!

I don't mind voice-tracking so much, as long as it sounds live.

The problem is it doesn't sound live. The music overpowers the voice and you can't hear the dj on a bunch of breaks!

I remember Z100 has a destination place to work. People would really bust their humps to get a job there. I did weekends for Ken Benson for just over a year at Z100 back in the mid 90's, some of the most fun I ever had in radio. Z100 is a pathetic shell of what it once was.

It's so bad, they should change the name. It disrespects all the great talent that Justin T-fake mentioned that worked at the station for so many years when it was successful. Truly pathetic. How about VT100? It makes more sense.

VT100

Now that's funny.

It makes me really sad in a way because I grew up with Z100 when it Was THE STATION IN PORTLAND! It had a power house of live talent. I still have old tapes I recorded off Z100 back in the mid 90's and i think to myself, What the hell went wrong with this station? It used to sound so good know it is completely unlistenable. It seems like today anybody can get a job on Z100,talent is not valued like it used to be. There was once a time when dj's were actually a HUGE part of that station. I remember as a kid going to the opening of NIKE town when the store first opened back in 1992. Jerome Kersey of the Trailblazers was there signing autographs. Z100's Tony Martinez and Val Ring were also there. Truth be told, more people were interested in meeting Tony Martinez and Val Ring then they were meeting Jerome Kersey. ( I kid you not) They were like stars, people loved them.
When people say this industry is dying, I totally agree. Radio has lost all of its magic that it once had. You can be optimistic and and say Roll with the changes, but as years go by, fewer and fewer jobs are available, Not a good thing.

One problem is; without available weekend and overnight positions, jocks have no place to learn the ropes and sharpen their skills!

True. Thus the end of radio as we know it. I sharpened skills and learned the ropes in Longview at KLYK and KITI in Chehalis, I didn't do it at Z100 in Portland. Lisa Carr and I had a long talk about 10 years ago with all the part-time people at Q105/K103 who thought they were actually "paying their dues" working in Portland. Are you kidding. You pay your dues working in John Day, Bend, and Klamath Falls, not Portland or Eugene or Seattle. You certainly don't do it at Z100.

One of the best talents in America, Lara Scott paid her dues in Bend. Her first gig wasn't at Star in Los Angeles. Sometimes, real radio isn't in the big cities, it's in Chehalis/Centralia, Yakima, Redding, and yes.....even Newport! HA!

Cheap Channel strikes again. P.O.S. company ought to go ahead and sell all of their radio stations already...they never understood the business, and probably never will.

Man, I know radio jobs are hard to come by, but if I worked for them, I'd RUN FOR THE HILLS.

I'd rather work at Safeway.

I just can't believe that Z100 has now Voice tracked two of the most important dayparts back to back.
That station truely is garbage, absolutely absurd.
Im assuming this is just temporary, but who knows, Cheap channel continues to destroy great radio stations. I feel so bad for all the kids who want to get into radio and actually think that radio has a future because it DOES NOT! Each year stations are sounding worse and worse. This is another blow to an industry that is already on life support.

It can only go on for so long.

We are nearing the point where costs cannot be cut too much farther.

The cycle of cutting costs to cut listeners to devalue paid airtime will eventually reach some low point where it's just gonna sit until somebody is allowed to actually innovate again.

Coupla things keep me optimistic about radio:

-it's portrayal in movies is still largely in line with the people powered radio vision shared by many here

(Kind of like the old school telephone ring living on despite almost no phones ringing that way.)

-there are a lot of radios

-it's free

-it's dead simple

-it's robust compared to other tech.

These things are not going to change anytime soon, leaving radio with us for a while yet.

I'm actually hoping we will see a culling of stations, particularly on AM. If this actually happens, the remaining spectrum can be put to some better uses and have more value per dial choice.

This kind of thinking is happening all over the country, in the biggest markets and at the largest stations.

Yesterdays All Access: abc Classic Rocker KLOS/Los Angeles eliminates 6pm to 10pm weeknight slot 'host' due to budgets cuts. This change is effective immediately and all other dayparts are expanded to accommodate the change. 5-10am, 10-3pm, 3-7pm, 8-1am, (1-5am jockless).

Buns: I thought I was crazy, and the jury is still out, but yes "Rizza" is doing some part time work, I am nuts, but is really was her that I heard, kinda strange.

The jocks are not the only ones losing their jobs, cc has also let go some office people as well,only one that I can confirm, but why the jocks first... oh wait, to pay the contracted buckhead show..... that's right.

Put a fork in Z100 that station is done with.

Back in the great Z100 days when Sean Lynch was PD, I was at KEX. One Friday afternoon, I was shooting the breeze with Sean in his office when Chet Buchanan came in to tell Sean that he couldn't find anyone to fill in on that night's all night shift.

They asked me if I wanted to do it. I didn't think they were serious because I had never done CHR. They were serious, but I still turned them down. C'mon, this was Z100, the #1 station in town. I couldn't pull off a shift!!! Sean & Chet said that I could go in and have fun for six hours. Then, I got to thinking....there were countless people that would do ANYTHING just to have the chance to do one airshift on Z100. Here I was, being pretty much being begged to fill in and I was saying "no." That was when I thought, "what the heck" and did the shift.

It was a blast. I tried to sound CHR, but I had to have been the most A/C sounding jock in Z100 history.

where is Lara Scott today? I hope she is still in Radio, she was awesome! Another one of Z100's finest!

Lara Scott is now working for the FISH in Los Angeles. She also has a weekly syndicated international countdown show. She puts Casey kasem to shame.
LARA ROCKS!

The last I heard, she was still in Los Angeles at "The Fish."

here is more on the talented Ms. Scott.
http://newsblaze.com/story/2006050808300100002.mwir/topstory.html

This just in...Mary Lou..the GM from CC Portland was let go today. You will read that on AA tommorrow.
The wheels are coming off the mighty Z100!
They are also secretly looking for Buckshot's replacement as well

Didn't that happen a while ago? I thought the new GM had already started.

As for Buck, I don't think he's going anywhere...no matter what you might think.

Z100 is a joke, some major changes will have to be made to that station once Movin gets going and adds live talent.

Could Portlands Own Terry Danner be the next one to be on the Cheap Channel cutting block??

Nwradio: Looks like Mr. Buck will be here for at least 10 more months or so, couple of months ago, if you remember, he was in a contract situation, well he only signed a 1 year deal, his co-host Brooke,2.

I couldn't help but laugh listening to Z100 today.
They were advertisting "The jingleball" coming to The Rose Garden. They are spending all of this money on bringing some acts to portland, yet they don't even have a full airstaff. Why not spend the money on getting an airstaff before having huge concerts?
That station has 2 0r 3 live dj's, pathetic!

I keep thinking its weird that Moovin is playing Stevie Kniks "edge of 17" everytime that song starts. But no its not, Its "booty-Licious" By Destinys child. The intro to that song sounds exactly the same.
"booty-Licious" and "edge of 17" have the same music, just different lyrics.

A little known Fact Timberfake

Destinys Child had the honer of Steve Nicks to actually play guitar on "Booty-Licious" So the intro on "booty-licious" is actually stevie nicks.

WHO FREAKIN CARES BEANO???

"booty-licious" is by far the dumbest song ever recorded!! Infact I have lost all respect for Stevie Nicks Now that i know she actually played guitar on that pathetic piece of garbage.

My wife is "booty-licious"

Today's artists continue to show they don't have the chops on their own, having to sample music that was created and proven decades ago. Today's artists are (mostly) pathetic.

BTW, the Stevie Nicks Destiny's Child collaboration is from 2001,
hardly new news. Apparently, Stevie's song was going to be used regardless of her involvement.

http://www.nicksfix.com/article_toronto_sun_may7_2001.htm

Today's artists continue to show they don't have the chops on their own, having to sample music that was created and proven decades ago. Today's artists are (mostly) pathetic.


ummmm Andy, this kind of music sampling has been happening for DECADES!!! Brain Wilson admits to ripping off Chubby Checker music, and Led Zeppelin ripped off music from Stevie Wonder. Although I do agree it has gotten a lot worse over the last decade. Most of the music today is mindless garbage, and now it has its own station, it's called MOVIN!

Are you saying that Brian Wilson took Chubby Checker's background tracks and put them onto his own songs? Is this the same Brian Wilson who credited Chuck Berry for writing "Surfin' USA" because of the similarity with "Sweet Little 16"?

DING! DING! DING! DING! DING!

WE HAVE A WEINER......I MEAN A WINNER! (sorry...its getting late)

I am trying to get in touch with Terry Danner....Terry, if you get this note..write me at danm356@yahoo.com
thanks,
Dan Mullin

Hey Dan, you made it!

Post this again under the Arbitron Session thread. She's will be looking at that one.

Terry is in Italy for another week.

Life is tough.

Hmmmmm.....Must be an Arbitron Conference in Italy.

Apparently it has gotten so bad over at Cheap Channel That It DROVE Terry Danner out of the country!

What did Terry do at Clear Channel?