We can afford the new sign on 131. We're bleeding money at this point. The WBKB deal was essentially done until we pulled out due to financial issues. Our staff is now feeling the financial concerns everyday.

They mentioned the lack of new advertisers as the major reason for the layoffs, the expiring affiliate agreements with Fox and CBS, and the retrans negotiations with Dish and Direct TV. The email also said " These negotiations are critical to our future and how we continue to inform, educate, and en...

Mostly behind the scenes, but still valuable members of our team. In the last six months, we’ve laid off fourteen people.

Got the dreaded email today telling everyone that management laid off six more people today. Everyone is wondering what or who is next.

No problem with Andrea or any farmers. The problem is the choices our managers are making. Letting go of six people that can help you make more money to keep a station farmer that’s passing out bins of veggies/eggs is not a good choice and it kills moral. Sounds like the chickens come before the peo...

That pretty much sums it up. With my family needing insurance and a steady small check, it’s what I need.

As for Braulis leaving, not much a loss when it comes to production. All she did was MTM. So that leaves us with 1 reporter for the week. Maybe we can get the farmer to be a reporter.

I was gone for a couple of days and unplugged from the drama at work. I looked at our website and was completely embarrassed by a story we did yesterday. We had only one reporter for the entire day, and we used her to do a story about a restaurant closing in Cadillac. Come on...really? Trying to und...

I looked at the logs for the game and didn’t see much. We had a Jay’s,, Ebels and I think Williams Chevy spot. Oh, our new stupid streaming channel made an appearance.

It never used to be from what the veterans tell me. The lack of leadership and direction hurts our station so much. Our COO has only a sales background, and our owner is never here. Our ND barely has any experience and is making decisions that have hurt the product.

I was watching the Lions game on our station yesterday and saw an ad for "BrewVine"...which is a ridiculous idea. We're now charging 9.99 for it? Are we that financially strapped that we need to charge our viewers for this? The more and more we talk about it in our breakroom, the more we're all conc...

A couple of us were talking at the station about the new political reporter we hired. Don't know much about him, but we're confused about what he does. It seems he's a print reporter pretending to be a TV reporter. We never see him on the air? When we aired the State of the State on Wednesday, inste...

Along with our financial problems, we’re so late to covering breaking news. The lead story on our website is a snowmobile accident that happened 3 DAYS AGO? Not sure who is making the decision in our newsroom?

We're making no money because the advertisers have stopped spending money. The email we got back in the fall said..."we cut discretionary budget spending significantly. Unfortunately, these actions were not enough". I guess the chickens and the farmer survived the chopping block. This with questiona...

His name is Zach. He worked in TC. Good guy but was looking to leave. We have no reporters working in our TC office.

Things have gone from bad to worse at the station. We just lost another reporter, which means we only have two. Our main story on the website all weekend was some DNR guy retiring, instead of all the snow we got. And it sounds like we're not doing well financially, We let go of 6 people back in the ...