Is it official? Is there no webio come Monday?

Is it official? Is there no webio come Monday?

I rarely troll.

Dude, not cool. Guy just lost his job. What about the NextStep folks who will be fired when the webio's creditors start seizing assets?

Superbitch, I'll pay for your tickets and drinks if your little pussy ass shows up. I GUARANTEE you'll leave in an ambulance though.

Hey Tim, fuck any haters on this board. Thanks for at least coming on, even if its just to say hello. I hope you guys make it through.

I dont want nobody to lose their job, but If that morons name ever came up in convo's I would completely say no fucking way, find a different job, or have a back up plan once the next Nort failure came.

Mike North out as exec at Webio; still on air
Allegations of bounced checks lead to dispute; simulcasts to continue
By Phil Rosenthal | Tribune reporter
June 13, 2009
Amid allegations that Chicago Sports Webio has been bouncing checks in recent days, Spectrum Entertainment Chief Executive David Hernandez on Friday fired host Mike North as senior vice president of the sports talk Web site he helped found last year.

A simulcast of North's Comcast SportsNet Chicago program, "Monsters in the Morning," will continue to be heard on the Web site, according to North, who said late Friday he hopes to wrest back control of the Web site from Hernandez.

Efforts to reach Hernandez -- whose NextStep Medical Staffing has been title sponsor of the "Monsters" television show -- for comment were unsuccessful.

Other members of the launch team Hernandez fired Friday were North's wife, Bebe, as chief operating officer and Jeff Schwartz as general sales manager.



CSN Chicago's Web site, for a time Friday, did not list "Monsters" on its schedule for next week. But the program later returned to the listings, and a spokesman had no explanation for the temporary absence but said the show would run as scheduled.

North said when he learned checks were bouncing, he, his wife and Schwartz tried to reach Hernandez for an explanation.

"He wouldn't return our e-mails. We tried talking to him," North said. "Right now the plan is to figure out what's going on."

Hernandez has raised eyebrows with his considerable spending for the start-up. Among the more notable expenses were paying for talent such as veteran host Chet Coppock and former boxer Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini and a heavy marketing campaign. He also invested heavily to outdo established media rivals in areas such as travel for staff to cover the Stanley Cup playoffs.

But a Crain's Chicago Business blog earlier this week quoted Hernandez as talking about expansion into broadcast radio and insisting the Web site already was making money.

"I know what my overhead expenses vs. revenues are," Hernandez told Crain's. "We're absolutely in a profit."

So, in this economy, someone is supposed to just quit b/c their boss is trying a new venture? How many of these people at NextStep had even heard of Mike North?

Superbitch, I'll pay for your tickets and drinks if your little pussy ass shows up. I GUARANTEE you'll leave in an ambulance though.

And in this economy, your not gonna look into things that effect you financially?

so north and bebe's check's never bounced but everyone else's did? Now he wants to come in and 'SAVE' the day for everyone else? Sure. con man extraordinaire! what a coincidence the North''s checks never bounced.