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ALL ACCESS is hearing talk in NEW YORK that veteran radio programmer STEVE BLATTER is about to join SIRIUS as VP/Music Programming. BLATTER has served as VP of Programming for BIG CITY RADIO, where he put Alternative simulcast KLYY-KSYY-KVYY (Y-107)/LOS ANGELES and Country simulcast WYNY (Y-107)/NEW YORK on the air.
No doubt about it, SABO MeDIA is taking over. YOu think the battle for repitition and variety is over...it has just begun. It is all about what makes profit.
Here is their blurb from their web site about their clients
SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO.
CEO Joseph Clayton hired Sabo Media to assist in the creation of cutting edge, premium programming for its 100 channels of audio. Sirius is one of the first satellite delivered, pay-for audio services. 60 channels of music, one for every taste, and 40 channels of talk. Sabo Media is building subscription driving programming and marketing concepts to make Sirius the number 1 satellite radio company.
APOLLO MANAGEMENT.
Apollo is a leading investment organization with positions in Vail Resorts, Breckenridge, AMC Theatres and many other family oriented entertainment showcases. Sabo Media works with the Apollo team to create new, innovative means of attracting and holding family entertainment revenues.
And for those of you who didn't know, Apollo Management is the leading stock holder of Sirius
Who do you think was the one that added all the commercials before the movie starts?
Like we have been saying it is going to get worse before it gets better.
In late 2002, Big City Radio went bankrupt and sold all of their radio properties.
January 2003...
Big City Radio Inc., continuing a move to liquidate assets, said yesterday it agreed to sell its four New York radio stations to Nassau Broadcasting Holdings Inc. for $43 million. They are: WYNY-FM, WWZY-FM, WWXY-FM and WWYY-FM.
Here is a quote from their client of New Jersey 101.5
Quote:
Talk is a more profitable format than music because it can super-serve advertisers with a wide range of promotional support. The talk audience is comfortable with a high number of commercials per hour.
- SABO MEDIA
Remember, music channels are COMMERCIAL FREE, not talk
My prediction for the SABO formula for Sirius
Shorten playlists and more automated music (less DJs) - Produce more talk and content and sell commercial space.
Shorten playlists and more automated music (less DJs) - Produce more talk and content and sell commercial space.
The opposite seems to be happening in terms of DJ's. They are hiring big name DJ's which means they intend to emphasize the DJ a bit more than they have. Yesterday's show on the Rock was very good when I listened during the Pat St. John's period. If he was responsible for the music selection I give him an "A".
For anyone that might know, how does Jay Clark fit into this picture? Doesn't he have a lot to do with the programming, and wouldn't Sabo be providing him with the advice? So Jay Clark's background may have a lot to do with how the programming evolves.
Edit: Somehow I missed the Bladder appointment. Since he has a VP title, what does that mean for Jay Clark? Who would Bladder be reporting to?
I don't get this appointment. When he was music director @ WYNY (103.5), he had no direct format competitor, and it wasn't a huge success by anyone's standards. He wasn't particularly successful with either the NY Quad cast OR the LA trimulcast, ratings OR revenue-wise.
It's starting to sound like a joke--How many VPs does it take to run a company?! Seriously, Jay and Joel are True Legends in the radio business. They have both been successful innovators, many times over. Jeremy's only claim to fame was a high profile, expensive and publicly offensive flop. And Blatter's "all hat no cattle."
But the bottom lines is, if Sirius is so Anti-Corporate Radio, why are they having so many corporate programming VPs?
They never had a chance in Los Angeles. No signal. (They were actually 2 stations without overlapping coverage. No signal in the Valley to speak of, shitty in the basin.) They were Mexican music when they folded.
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Originally Posted by TulaneJeff
In late 2002, Big City Radio went bankrupt and sold all of their radio properties.
January 2003...
Big City Radio Inc., continuing a move to liquidate assets, said yesterday it agreed to sell its four New York radio stations to Nassau Broadcasting Holdings Inc. for $43 million. They are: WYNY-FM, WWZY-FM, WWXY-FM and WWYY-FM.
It's starting to sound like a joke--How many VPs does it take to run a company?!
100 streams is a lot of programming for one or two people to be responsible for. Imagine if this were 100 different radio stations how many VP's would there be?
So it looks like they may end up with 2 or 3 VP's focused on the programming side.
For the record, Big City Radio went bankrupt after being taken over by a group of hispanic dot-com entrepreneurs (i.e., idiots) who proceeded to change the formats of the majority of their most successful stations to Spanish. Blatter had nothing to do with this and was long gone by then.
All of their stations were suburban rimshots with lousy signals on the fringes of major markets. Considering what they had to work with, Y-107 in LA gave KROQ a pretty good run for not much money, and their station in Phoenix (the Edge) was very successful, at least from a revenue standpoint. Then the Spanish guys came in and trashed the company.
At the end of the day, you have to ask yourself, "Is this the best qualified, most successful candidate for the job?" I think Jay is. I think Joel is.
You mentioned KROQ. A LEGENDARY STATION. Why not the guys who created & ran that? How about the people who launched MTV? Or Brian Phillips, The guy who has revitalized CMT?
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