I heard no notice, they were just called in and told their jobs were eliminated. They were given some sort of lame severance and a box of vegetables. Truth is right about networks being part of the problem. Stations have basically 2 revenue sources: commercial ads and retransmission rights. Ad reven...

I think CMU is still trying to figure out how to hold a membership telethon to pay to replace batteries in the transmitter’s smoke detector.

Brad has always believed he’s the smartest person in the room. He’s not, tho.

People were glad when he left WJRT. Now this so called Scientific Communications Manager needs to be brought down a peg or two.

It sounds like the HR Manager there is part of the problem and needs to go as well.

I thought networks had to approve changes to affiliate logos when they use the network logo in them. That’s not the case when affiliates remove the network logos?

Yep, their digital desk or some type of branding like that. WNEM is having Christina Burkhart launch their live streaming one-person desk. Mid-Michigan NOT Now! recently launched their desk and just hired a Lansing reporter named Kyle Makin to anchor their live desk. Because adding on a self-directe...

If that study is true, then I worked with freaking Mensa level genius directors back in the 90’s — who used f- bombs every other word.

Great Stripes reference. Now I gotta rewatch that movie!

However that Fox 2 segment is still idiotic.

Not horror, just juvenile. Stuff you’d expect to see in small markets, not a top 20 market like Detroit.

Language, Matt. Time to start using your word of the day calendar to expand your vocabulary so you can express your outrage/ire/fury/anger/rage against Deadspin’s demise/closure/cancellation/shutting down.

I might humbly suggest the good folks at WCMU attend today’s Michigan Association of Broadcasters Engineering Conference in Lansing. https://www.michiganmedia.com/michigan-broadcast-engineering-conference/ Not sure if there is a specific session on how not to completely burn down your transmitter si...

Sorry to hear that T’Varinuss. Hopefully everyone laid off will be able to land in even better jobs elsewhere. This industry sucks for how it treats its people when the company is mismanaged from the top.

You’re right that it shouldn’t be needed… if journalists just did their job of getting both/all sides. Most do, which is a good thing. But then you get stations run by Sinclair that use their local newscasts to push a national agenda from their corporate owners.

100%. Here’s to hoping investors realizing that Adam Symson’s “reinvention” of local news is actually just trying to cheapen local stations’s bottom line… and they promptly show him the door. Symson started his career as an investigative reporter at local tv stations in cities like Phoenix, LA and C...

And Kalamazoo is on the map for Western Michigan and soggy cereal. It’s still a bad station group regardless of who is airing the crappy Sinclair must-run corporate propaganda.