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1. Not only is this the most important STLMedia story of the year, it's also the least reported. It involves media complicity with barely-legal political strategy. McCaskill's campaign engaged in a conspiracy with KMOV that enriched them both.
Secret Squirrel spins on ... Claire McCaskill's U.S. Senate campaign. Allegedly, someone purchased the remaining tickets for this Sunday's Rams' game in a deal with KMOV (they would air the game if it was sold out) to provide news coverage of Ms. McCaskill handing out free tickets. A deal was struck with the KMOV sales department for coverage of Claire handing out tickets if she bought the remaining tickets so Channel 4 could show the game this Sunday. This sale of the remaining tickets would generate ad revenue for Channel 4 if those tickets were sold.
2. Ms. Foss didn't just "suddenly retire"...she was forced out by Gannett, who insisted that she take a 20% paycut and add another day to her work schedule. The company would not have done this if Karen was a 30-something. This was an age-based firing by another name. No other source has the stones to tell the true story.
Karen Foss "suddenly" retires from KSDK/NBC5.
3. This was not just a firing. It was an execution, and appropriately so for capital offenses.
Lee Clear ... O-U-T as Clear Channel/STL Market Manager.
4. Who, locally, the hell else went into the belly of the beast and sent the story home? No other STL radio or tv personality, to my knowledge, had the sack to go report the war. Grayson did and he sent home great audio and pictures.
KMOX' Jon Grayson embeds with US troops to report from Iraq on KMOX.
5. Media consolidation has turned stations over to ignorant owners; my friend Paul nearly lost his life because of the Clear Channel's lack of attention to detail and training. Again, there was a significant lack of reporting and oversight about this.
Paul Arca injured in freak accident. Arca was just finishing up a KLOU remote at the St. Charles Convention Center; he and the station promotion assistant jumped into the KLOU van in the rain and as she pulled away, she clipped a power line with the unlowered hydraulic antenna. The power line broke and hit the van, Paul was physically thrown out of the vehicle, taking the 7400-volt electrical charge full-on.
6. They hire and they fire and they just don't care about their employees.
The ongoing staff turmoil and mismanagement at Cardinal's/CH Holding's KTRS.
7. CBS Programming exec Mark Edwards is a bully with a seat high in the corporate congregation. He considers himself bulletproof. That's why he allows this kind of behavior at an event that should be politically neutral.
CBSRadio on-stage announcers at the Komen Run dissed WIL's participation by introducing Cornbread & Pat as being from The Bull. WIL's runners were wearing green station t-shirts and observers tell me that green was the dominant color downtown for the race. Were the CBS types trying to snark the Bonneville radio fans because The Arch has trounced Y98 and KEZK 6A-12M, 18-34 and 25-54?? If so, this was the wrong place and the wrong time to try payback. Bad disc jockeys. BAD! Sit! Stay!
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