PC540: Where did PC go?
PC540: Where did PC go?
Pat Campbell gets fired from 540 WFLA without warning.
Yesterday regulars on the morning commute were shocked to hear the piggish mumblings of Dan Silio, sports jock from 740 The Team. Did they have a connection problem and can't air the feed? A call to the studio lines ran busy. A call to 740 the Team ran busy.
Go to the 540 WFLA website and you are greeted with "Glenn, Rush, and Bud are still here! Now with Dan Silio in the mornings 6 to 9". WTF??? Silio is an effing pig! All he cares about is the new chick working the Winghouse and how he's going to convince her how locally famous he is as a mumbling-like-Madden sports jock he is and the should hook up.
A call to Tom Benson yielded the fake "I understand your concern and they will be taken into consideration." I asked if this was temporary and would they hire someone else, and he said that was not the plan.
The next day Silio is still on and in the 6 o'clock hour talked about how hot the pedophile teacher in Tampa is. In the 7 o'clock hour talked about how hot some football player's wife is. And I just couldn't stomach checking in the third hour and opted to suffer through Jim Turner on 580 who has the personality of a rock, doesn't take calls, and softballs his guests. For instance, he has yet to confront Senator Mel Martinez on his amnesty bill.
Pat Campbell writes an addendum to his blog stating that the reason this came down was because 740 The Team is going to a Hispanic format. NOW the truth comes out! So it seems to me that Clear Channel is trying to hid the fact that they are bending over and taking it in the ass for the Hispanics now. And in turn conservative values have been replaced by a cross between John Madden and Howard Stern. Great, just what this community needs.
This is the man to bitch to: Tom Benson, the program director for 540WFLA: tombenson@540wfla.com (407) 916-7800
posted by Nicole Weeks at
12/05/2007 12:43:00 PM
3 Comments:
Don't waste your time writing to Tom Benson or Laura Kam they aren't the decision makers the people responsible for this decision are
ChrisKampmeier@ClearChannel.com
and
LindaByrd@clearchannel.com
they made the decision to terminate PC.
By
Avid Listener, at 12/08/2007 11:52 AM
Clear Channel did the same thing to the Air America affiliate in Boston, and it didn't work - this Hispanic format got worse ratings than AA did.
As for the goofus you got in the morning, well, the sports talk station I usually listen to canned a couple of the local jocks so they could run Opie & Anthony, but toilet radio didn't fare any better. They just got replaced by the nappy-headed relic with the cowboy hat.
It's a wonder radio executives can stand, they keep shooting themelves in the feet.
By
zygote, at 12/12/2007 1:56 PM
Why do I find myself agreeing with you on SO MANY issues? I wonder if I just stumbled into a female equivalent of myself. You are a brilliant writer, Nicole, and I ALSO agree with you that it is SICKENING to find ANY radio host would DARE talk flatteringly about ANY paedophile, ESPECIALLY ANY paedophile teacher, and I have blogged about that on my OWN blog myself, you can find that blog through my own profile, I have not been very active with that place lately but you get an idea of some of the things that interest me...
Maybe you can lobby another station in your area to pick up the hosts that you like. Maybe you can get Rush moved to a station that also carries Hannity, Savage, and even The Great One Mark Levin.
You might also check the businesses who advertise on the station --- and boycott those businesses till they pull their advertising from the wayward stations.
By
(SR71)Atomica, at 1/28/2008 1:47 PM
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