Day #64 - 12/17/97 - 11:50 PM

When you get the boot from a radio station (and I suspect any employment situation), it's only human to hope that your previous employer doesn't do as well without you. It's only human. Part of you is just plain mad at them for throwing your life into turmoil and your darker side wants them to get what's coming to them. Another part of you secretly hopes that at some point the person or persons responsible for your demise will see things aren't going any better (or worse) and think to themselves, "Mmmm....maybe we made a mistake. Maybe they weren't that bad. Maybe something else was broken. Maybe we moved to fast."

Well, I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, there are some great folks still working at my last station and I wish them well. On the other hand, I can't help but smile at the last two trends I saw online. Ever since the station fired us, it has dropped even more. The last two trends have BOTH been down. (An they had a BIG expensive TV ad campaign to support these changes, too!) Prior to all the changes that took place in mid-October that included firing us, the station was trending up! It doesn't take a brain surgeon to see someone has made a mistake. Someone has misjudged the market, the audience and the state-of-the-station they HAD before the changes.

I'm not a vindictive person. At least I don't think I am. All I wish is that somebody had give us a chance to do the job we were hired to do instead of second guessing us for most of our tenure at the old WLTF-FM under Secret Communications. I also wish Jacor had taken better stock of the kind of talent we are. The company even admitted to us they knew WLTF's problems were not the air-staff's doing. Jay and I put in over two, long and intense years of work in Cleveland. We would have liked to have been around long enough to redeem ourselves as we pushed our way up out of the wrong music, lousy promotions and bad direction.