By Jerry Del Colliano I get how the major consolidators want to dilute local radio in favor of a cheaper national platform. And how they see hundreds of their radio stations serving as cheap price point delivery vehicles for major advertisers like Home Depot and Wal-Mart. I get it, but I don't like it. It's shortsighted and eventually destructive to the radio industry. But what I don't get is the mean gene that the three leading unemployers in the radio industry possess. Take Cumulus. Please. So terminator Gary Pizzati arrives at a sales meeting in Fayetteville, NC Wednesday morning. You may remember Pizzati who, according to accounts from some Cumulus employees, doesn't burden himself with Dale Carnegie human relations techniques. But on that morning, Pizzati was apparently reborn as Tony Robbins. The sales staff reportedly sat in amazement as Pizzati tried his hand at reassuring the nervous employees assembled. Pizzati told the sales meeting in Fayetteville that they need to have passion for their work ... their company ... their homes ... their neckties! That's right, one person insists he told the males that they need to consider their neckties turning his visit into a necktie party of sorts as you'll...
Source: Inside Music Media
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