Cox spinning format wheel again

[In_Tulsa]

I can listen to any radio station but KQLL WOW that is more then bad and the voice tracking is a mess. I hate to say it but dead air has sounded better.

[JournalGuy]

Just proves that a great football player may not make a great coach or team manager.
In this case, a good DJ doesn't always make a good PD.

KQLL is a sloppy mess.

[dcmdfw]

AMEN BROTHA TOO THAT MICHAEL DELGIORNO IS THE BIGGEST HIPORCRIT OUT THERE WELL BESIDES THE LADY ON 1170AM IN THE MORNING! SHE BASHES GAY PEOPLE ONE MIN AND TALKS ABOUT GOING TO A DRAG SHOW THE NEXT! "HELLO"

[AMandFM]

The only movement I've heard on the Cox Tulsa front is about a long-time former sales manger being released due to budget cuts...  which makes NO sense to me since I'd heard he made the stations tons of money.  Why do you lay off the people who are MAKING you money?

It MIGHT signal changes at 102.3.

Budget cuts on 102.3? But I thought their ratings were great compared to how Rock 102.3 did. How is that possible?

Are you kidding me? It's COX...they always shoot themselves in the foot like that. Last week they fired on-air people in several markets for the exact same reason. I'm certainly not a financial genius, but if you fire the people that help make you money, how do you quantify that? And after severance (or whatever deal they may have), what are you really saving? A few bucks, literally, several months from now?

[OKCRadioGuy]

The only movement I've heard on the Cox Tulsa front is about a long-time former sales manger being released due to budget cuts... 

I knew of a guy that was making Cox of Tulsa major bucks as a sales manager that had his job eliminated and he was out the door.  He was a hell of a good guy and didn't deserve being kicked to the curb.  For some reason they do that up there from time to time and I really don't know why.  It's defies logic really.  Overall it seems like Cox is a pretty decent operation, but some stuff they have done over the couse of time makes me wonder like this episode and when they jacked around with KRMG's mornings which eventually led John Earling to bail on them.  Not smart..

[JournalGuy]

The John Erling decision was directly related to Michael beating him at KFAQ.  They needed someone that could stand up to a tougher competitve situation.  John was good, but Michael was more interesting and drove the cume to 1170.  Joe attracts a slightly younger audience and comes across more conservative.   Not sticking up for the Cox, but that wasn't a bad call at the time.  MDD is now gone and we will see how Joe holds up to Gwen and Chris. 

As far as sales managers go, who knows.  That can be totally subjective.  It all comes down to their ability to recruit and train good sales talent.  Some sales people get promoted to GSM and fail miserably.  I sometimes wonder why a top seller would step down in pay to manage.   Seems like it is better to self manage and make money instead of taking on everybody elses problems.  A little different compared to the programming side. 

This market has a few good GSMs and a few that should just be selling.  Managing people (especially sales people) is not easy.