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 Post subject: Mitch Rosen
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 Post subject: Re: Mitch Rosen
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Cool, now Mitch can have Freeform Norm walk all over him, too.

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 Post subject: Re: Mitch Rosen
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Rod Zimmerman, Senior Vice President and Market Manager for CBS Radio Chicago, today announced the promotion of Mitch Rosen to Operations Manager for both WXRT-FM/93XRT and WSCR-AM/670 The Score. The change is effective immediately.

Rosen has been the Program Director for WSCR-AM since 2005. In that role, he has done much more than the typical Program Director and has served the station as an Operations Manager/General Manager, without having that title. That changes as of today.


Mitch has been doing three jobs on the lowest pay scale of all three/

Poor guy.

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 Post subject: Re: Mitch Rosen
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SI finally added Joan Niesen's oral history of KMOX to its library. Let's sit and read about what a shitbird Rod Zimmerman is:

http://www.si.com/vault/2014/09/22/1066 ... f-st-louis

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As talk radio transitioned, KMOX also aged. Sure, it brought in new, young talent like Joe Buck, Ackerman and others to adapt, but by 2002 the two men whose names were synonymous with the station, Hyland and Jack Buck, had passed away. Hyland went first, in 1992, and after his death nothing was ever quite the same.

WILKERSON: Camelot ended then. The great ride was over. I wish I had treasured that time more than I did, because everything I really loved about it was gone.

ABSHER: CBS desperately wanted to gain control of KMOX, and there were people at the network who were vying to come in here when Hyland was gone. They couldn't force him to do anything; he was making so much money for the network. He did what he wanted, and that was why we loved working there. He protected us from all of the junk and all of the garbage.

[Hyland] had done things for KMOX that an outsider would look at and say, "What on earth?" He put these billboards all over town that just said, kmox. No dial position, no nothing. He knew it was an institution, that it was of the community. It was just a reminder. The first thing [new general manager] Rod Zimmerman did when he came in was cancel all those contracts, the choicest billboards in town.

JACOBER: About two or three weeks after [Zimmerman arrived], he wanted to have a meeting of the sports staff. I made the mistake of inviting everybody, even the people we had part-time. [Zimmerman] walked into the conference room, and his eyes were as big as saucers. He couldn't believe we were paying that many people. About a week later he called me into his office, which was Hyland's office, and he slid a piece of paper to me. There were [eight] names on there. He told me to get rid of them. I had to call [Post-Dispatch columnist and part-time KMOX staffer] Bob Burnes and [former Post-Dispatch editor Bob] Broeg and all of those guys, and Bob Costas, Dan Dierdorf. Those guys were on that list. The next day, it was the story on the front page of the sports [section] of the Post-Dispatch.



Hey! You're fired! Hey! What are we paying for these billboards? Cancel them! So it's not a bit, huh.

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 Post subject: Re: Mitch Rosen
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What an ass.

Kind of the universal thought: Once the bean counters took over, that was it for radio as we once knew it.


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 Post subject: Re: Mitch Rosen
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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
Everybody hates the bean counters until it's time to make money.


The problem is it's never enough money. And from the sounds of it, KMOX was making tons of it.

Why pay local talent when you can run an ad or something syndicated?


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Why do anything creative with an FM station you own when you can simulcast an AM station you own?

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 Post subject: Re: Mitch Rosen
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This is why B&B have their jobs. Whatever you think they are fixed costs and revenues for Rod. They may have not been cut but they have not gotten raises last couple contracts. Their fixed costs and revenues balance the sheet for all the rest of the broadcast schedule CBS Chicago wide.

CBS cares about what Zimmerman brings in across all Chicago CBS stations in total and gives a fuck about content.

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 Post subject: Re: Mitch Rosen
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You have to give a fuck about content or the whole thing comes crashing down. Look at Cumulus and WLS. They're full of syndicated shows and infomercials and it keeps the books balanced for now, but eventually this got unsustainable and they had to sign the withered husk of Steve Dahl to give them something that might be meaningful programming.

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You have to give a fuck about content or the whole thing comes crashing down. Look at Cumulus and WLS. They're full of syndicated shows and infomercials and it keeps the books balanced for now, but eventually this got unsustainable and they had to sign the withered husk of Steve Dahl to give them something that might be meaningful programming.



You are right but the current manager (or past in WLS) will run it into the ground and collect bonuses. Then leave or get promoted and the remaining crap is left to be cleaned up. It is the new way.

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 Post subject: Re: Mitch Rosen
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Pretty much. Sounds like the kind of game the private equity firms run.

The funny thing is that the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which is what allowed Infinity and Westinghouse to merge into the CBS cluster we have today, was introduced to increase competition.

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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
Everybody hates the bean counters until it's time to make money.


Or time for them to collect a check.

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 Post subject: Re: Mitch Rosen
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In fairness to Mitch, he does give us way more local programming than he has any right to, given his boss.

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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
Everybody hates the bean counters until it's time to make money.

Yeah, I dont get why that specifically makes Zimmerman an asshole. Pretty standard operating procedure when new management comes in


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 Post subject: Re: Mitch Rosen
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Curious Hair wrote:
In fairness to Mitch, he does give us way more local programming than he has any right to, given his boss.


Mitch was the one who turned the tide against national programming at the Score. There was a time, post golden age (HFC and Monsters) where they were going national from 6 pm to 6 am and once 6 pm hit on Friday they didn't return to local until Monday. Then Dan Mc Neil left and single handedly adjusted ESPN programming to more local (although still plenty national). Those were the years ESPN went from pretty much 0.0 to overtaking the Score in ratings. Mitch came on the scene and changed things to the hyper local programming we have today as a response.

Mitch is a hero in this tale.

Zimmerman can suck a fart out of my butt because his management style allows for zero talent development resulting in the horrible second string lineups we have today. The threat of elimination by Zimmerman has also created the big business fawning posture of Dan Bernstein.

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