Posted by Insider on January 22, 2009 at 12:28:21:
In Reply to: Re: Chicago Clear Channel firings-promotions posted by Richard on January 21, 2009 at 17:48:43:
Yep. This is true. Most of the promotions department was also let go. CC has decided to drastically alter the way station events are done, including scaling back on promotions and greatly raising the cost for remotes so less clients will request them. They will only "send the station out" when it's absolutely cost-effective and will not entertain the notion of "long-term pay off".
Unfortunately there won't be any "official" way to acknowledge this, as CC has told the local clusters to keep tight-lipped about exits. The only reason the "bigger names" have been leaked to news stories is because their removal from web pages, etc was more noticeable.
: Apparently across the board Chicago promotions part timers were also cut yesterday, all of them (wksc-wgci etc)
: supposedly they are setting up for scaled down promos? Can anyone confirm this?