The Colorado Sound – Vol. 3, EP 41 2011

NEWS & NOTES: (music beds courtesy of Adam Stern and Robert Eldridge)

Drew Emmitt “Take The Long Way Home” from Long Road (2008)
John Common & Blinding Flashes of Light “Same Scar” from Beautiful Empty (2011)
Kim Jones “Everything’s Frozen” from Lucky Girl (2011)
The Still City “Punk Rock Kids” from Brittle Bones (2011)
Patti Fiasco “Nobody’s Girl” from Patti Fiasco (2011)
(D) Air Dubai “Summer Solstice” from Day Escape (2011)
Purpose Found “Gotta Make It (Hallelujah)” from Blue Flame (2011)
Vices I Admire “Sweetest Girl” from The Politics of Apathy (2009)
Saints “Dark Country” from Dark Country (2011)
Finnders and Youngberg “Sold On You” from FY5 (2011)
Hickman Dalton Gang “Mr. Wrong” from Hickman Dalton Gang Vol 2 (2011)
Andrew Vogt “Phil Woodshed” from Cats Afoot (2010)
Lionel Young Band “Bring It On Home” from On Our Way to Memphis (2011)
John McVey “Lay Your Burden Down” from Unpredictable (2010)
Bare Bones “Last Dance” from Bare Bones (2011)
Andy Palmer “Lawless” from Sometime Around (2011)
(D) Neil Haverstick “Blues Ain’t Nothin’” from Hide and Seek (2011)
Freddi / Henchi and the Soulsetters “Soul Train” from Crown Princes of Funk: The Last Set (2010)
(D) Samples (Ben Samples) “Shadow of Love” from Malbec (2011)
Beats Noir! “Not For You” from 13 Tracks From the Dark Side of The Beat (2011)
Rose Hill Drive “Telepathic” from Americana (2011)
Lindsey O’Brien Band “Broke My Heart” from As Long As It Matters (2008)
(NT) Stephanie Pauline and Joe Uvegas “Unbroken” from When the Smoke Clears (2011)
The Quiet American “Talk Is Cheap” from Quiet American, Vol II (2011)
Lois Lane “Yodelers’ Polka” from The Best of Lois Lane (2004)
Greg Garrison “Blackwell’s Reel” from Low Lonesome (2011)

Clear Channel Firings = Loss of Local Radio?

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Clear Channel Firing Timeline

Wednesday, October 26, 2011
By Jerry Del Colliano

It’s hard to know exactly when the bomb will be detonated but there are indications of how and when the massive firings I reported weeks ago will occur.

Here are some circumstances that may help to predict the onset of the firings:

1. No firings in this round, at least, will occur without regional managers getting their shooting orders from Radio President John Hogan. So if you’re in a market where your regional has not received the dreaded flash drive from Hogan, you have several more weeks to work on your resume and become familiar with your state’s unemployment laws.

2. The elapsed time between when a Regional Market Manager gets his or her flash drive and initiates the firings could be two to four weeks. It is unlikely that firings in this round would begin later than one month after an RMM gets their flash drive. Again, the flash drive has corporate targets and expectations for regional honchos to consider where they can cut costs.

3. If you’re in programming, consider yourself three times as likely to come under the gun than someone in a non-programming position. Keep in mind that this is my estimate based on what I am hearing on the ground within Clear Channel.

4. Most if not all of the Clear Channel firings for 2011 will be completed by the beginning of December. They will likely avoid the holiday and New Years firings that rival Cumulus customarily conducts. As massive as this round of cost reductions are, it is not the last and maybe not even be the biggest. I will address this in future updates.

5. Managers are safe for the most part, but they are going to face a challenge of their own that they may not see coming. Clear Channel is not just firing on-air people; it is creating a company that has minimal management structure and virtually no costs compared to stations that are operating today.

Notice how you have not heard a word out of new CEO Bob Pittman’s mouth lately.

He’s booked speeches for the Country Radio Seminar and an Arbitron event but he’s mum on the dirty work that henchman Hogan is carrying out – some say, even enjoying.

Pittman’s job is Spinmeister-in-Chief.

You’ll soon hear another dramatic announcement about that little app he thinks is an Internet initiative called iHeartRadio.

The plan is to make local radio not much different from an app.

Cheap programming – but instead of streaming it online, it is broadcast on-air.

Then mix it in with customizable radio – not exactly a hit in and of itself – and you’ve got what seems to investors to be the future of radio.

What it really is is the end of local radio.

Today, one of the largest purges of local radio talent commences and nobody is home to stop it.

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The Colorado Sound – Vol. 3, EP 40 2011

NEWS & NOTES: (D) Jonny Barber & the Living Deads “Dance All Night” from Dance All Night (2011)
(D) Casey James Prestwood “Different Kind of Flower” from Suburban Home Presents Denver Mixtape Vol 7 Aug/Sept 2011 (2011)
(D) Tennis “Tell Her No” from Tell Her No (2011)
Roger Green “John Lennon” from Harder to Tell (2011)
Ian Cooke “Fortitude” from Fortitude (2011)
Hearts of Palm “Tip Your Glasses” from the bridge e.p. (2008)
Bare Bones “Come In/Stay Out” from Bare Bones (2011)
(D) The Ghost of Michael Clark “Clear Water” from Bound to Break (2011)
The Broken Everlys “Sweet Disorder” from Stoned In Juarez (2010)
Cassie Taylor “Keys” from Blue (2011)
Pat Murphy “Heart of America” from The Paul Howard Project (2011)
The Autumn Film “Always the Same” from The Ship and the Sea (2010)
Wendy Woo Band “Drunk in Love” from Austerity (2011)
Ego vs Id “Landmine” from Taste (2010)
Peter Sommer “Mushi Mushi” from Tremolo Canteen (2010)
John-Alex Mason “Riding On” from Jook Joint Thunderclap (2011)
John-Alex Mason “Gone So Long” from Jook Joint Thunderclap (2011)
(D) Signel-Z “Theme for Julienne” from Io Rise (2011)
Yo, Flaco! “Rent” from The Skinny (2004)
My Body Sings Electric “Rings” from Changing Color (2011)
Petals of Spain “Working 9 to 5” from Late Night Visitor (2011)
(NT) Dubskin “Warrior Stomp” from Release from Fear (2011)
Johnny Hickman “The Great Decline” from Palmehenge (2005)
(D) Katey Laurel “Two Birds” from Two Birds (2011)
(D) Stephanie Pauline and Joe Uvegas “I Don’t Dance” from When the Smoke Clears (2011)
Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams “Tear It Down” from Sinners & Saints (2010)
Jim Stranahan “Leaves Must Fall” from Free For All (2011)