Q107 - big layoffs - Kim Mitchell, Jeff Woods, Nails Mahone, et al booted

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james t kirk

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Been out of town a lot lately and just came back and was listening to Q107 and discovered that several of their DJ's have been fired.

Leading the list is Kim Mitchell and Jeff Woods.

I liked them both. Kim for his stories and his every day kind of guy on air personality. Jeff Woods for the smooth voice and the absolutely fascinating historical shows he hosted "Legends of Classic Rock".

Others include Dominik Diamond, James MacPhee (news) and Nails Mahone

Maureen Holloway (who had been off work for the last couple of months on some mysterious "personal time" vacation) has been slotted in to take over Kim Mitchell's slot. I like Maureen, she was great in her role as a Derringer side-kick (far better than Ryan Parker or Flair Boy), but I don't know if she has the chops to take on the drive home slot frankly. I mean, hearing nonstop "I have such a great life, with 2 great kids, and a great husband, and go to cotillions every weekend at the lake at the cottage" gets old after about the 50,000'th time frankly.

Kim Mitchell had a huge number of never ending rock n roll insider stories. I really liked listening to his stories.

In doing a little digging, it is obvious that Corus Entertainment is suffering an economic meltdown. The changing landscape in radio and TV has caught up to it. It's losing money, it's stock price is a fraction of its former self, its debt is hight, and there is theTaj Mahal it built down by the lake - complete with Atrium and indoor waterslide.

I hate it when anyone loses their job. Although these people are not personal friends, you feel like you know them (in a way), so their departure is that much more shocking.

Sad news indeed.
 
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Q107 has turned into CFNY from 20 years ago. I haven't listened to it for any measurable amount of time for years. It's a shitty station with shitty programming.

Maureen Holloway is a snippy bitch who's never done anything on her own. All she's ever done is trash the creative work of others. She should have been at the top of the can list.
 
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sorry to hear about those layoffs. Kim was 1 of my favourites and I loved his show.
 
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A rock n' roll radio station in this day and age? If you buy stock in that you get what you deserve.
 
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A friend turned me on to 97.3 as well. I still prefer Q. Maybe it's that well worn end of the dial, maybe it's hearing Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin more often than not, or maybe it's Psychedelic Sundays (like right now) and Derringer in the mornings. JD still rules the mornings even if Ryan Parker is the poorest of poor side kicks for him. I also very much like the fact that they are now playing a more diverse line up of music - stuff from the 80's and 90's, etc.

I used to be a die-hard 102.1 fan. Humble and Fred in the morning, and I really loved the late great Martin Streek. It was tragic when he killed himself (2 months after being fired by Corus - a fact I blame Corus for (at least for being the catalyst).) Sunday evenings have never EVER been the same without Martin. No more "live to air". I could never stomach Dean Blundell. He was an idiot with toilet bowl humour that never drew me in.
 
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theTaj Mahal it built down by the lake - complete with Atrium and indoor waterslide.
...it's not a waterslide just a regular slide. Martin Streek was a great dj for 102 but was a raging alcoholic and while you can blame his layoff as the cause there's a lot more to that story.
 
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ZenSouljah said:
. Martin Streek was a great dj for 102 but was a raging alcoholic and while you can blame his layoff as the cause there's a lot more to that story.
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I'm sure that there is a lot more to the story. I'm going to guess that he was in a fragile place and undoubtedly the firing pushed him over the edge. (No pun intended.)

But Martin was one of my favourite DJ's. I only know him by his on-air personae I admit. I loved his love of the music that I identified with my own youth and I loved the way he seemed to genuinely care about people. It was a Sunday night ritual for me to tune into 102 and listen to Live to Air with Martin. If he was fucked up on booze, he certainly didn't reveal it while he was on the air. Not at least that I ever heard. He could have survived being fired. Lots of people get fired. You need to pick yourself up and reinvent yourself. I think Martin's entire identity was wrapped up in his job and when that job was taken away from him (for whatever reason), well, we all saw the result. It was and is tragic.
 
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I don't know anything about Corus Entertainment on the whole (the downward spiral seems like a far bigger issue than just Q107), but as far as Q107 is concerned - if they're struggling it's not surprising.

The music is great but it's dated. They've been playing to the same audience for decades and that audience is now old. Just as there are no popular jazz or 50s rock and roll stations anymore (lots of great music there, too) because that audience is deep in their twilight years, the "classic rock" played by Q107 is now also old people's music. I think it's only in the past year that Q107 decided that rock music made after 1979 was good enough to receive air time.

Adults in their late 30s and younger grew up listening to classic rock but also many other genres, so the days of genre-specific radio formats is virtually obsolete by the taste of today's music listeners.

Kim Mitchell's intimate stories were terrific as were Jeff Woods' insightful rock history shows.

Psychedelic Sundays have always been unbearable. Every song is indistinguishable from the next and sounds like one long-winded jam session. It may make sense to people still dropping acid like it's 1965 and still having free love with their now obese 60 year old spouse (who used to be a skinny free love bombshell in 1965). But the majority of today's music audience has no connection to nor no stomach for it. It's like biker gangs and biker rallys. In the 1960s all the cool badass bikers were lean, young, and hot. The only people you find at biker rallys today are obese old men and 60 year old women flashing their tits. That segment of people are living in a bygone era and are only still cool in their own minds.

Maureen Holloway must be giving sexual favors to management because she's the most boring soccer mom ever heard on radio. Her amazing husband is probably a prolific TERB hobbyist, because he's definitely not getting any action at home. She should be at the top of the list of people getting canned.
 
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Like Kathleen, I'm surprised that so many people on TERB here actually tune in and listen to the radio shows -- for me, I only ever tuned into a particular channel for the music (except for CBC Radio 1 with their news and documentaries). At any rate, with the advent of satellite radio, podcasts, and iTunes, I guess it shouldn't be all that surprising that specific radio channels are struggling to maintain their audience.
 
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i allways listen to q 107 but i turned it off when kim mitchel came on wast of good air time good riddence!
 
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i quit listening to FM radio ever since Don Daynard quit his Saturday Night Oldies gig..lol.....thank god for my CD player...lol..
 
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ogibowt said:
i quit listening to FM radio ever since Don Daynard quit his Saturday Night Oldies gig..lol.....thank god for my CD player...lol..
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Sirius, Songza , and Tunein, YouTube music videos, iTunes that's plenty of entertainment for me

.fm radio??? Idle chatter, commercials, traffic updates, endless supply of bad news from reality....naaaaaaaaaaa
 
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