Posted by rman on 11/5/2009, 8:07 pm, in reply to "Re: KCTV 5 NEWS DIRECTOR OUT TO LUNCH "
I am not that critical of the small stuff. Who knows, that person might have softened his/her sorrows with soemthing to both make him/her more honest and more of a misspeller.
I so wish people in here would just chill out. Damn, there are so many anal people in here. And of course anal is incongruous with creativity.
So if youre picky about the little shit, know you have little imagination and no ability to creatively come up with fresh ideas the media desperately needs.
People who bring success are not those who trudge and do their duty, day in and day out. It's the risk takers, those with imagination.
Theyre right brainers. left brainers, needed to keep business running on time, keep the bills paid and the invoices going out, you're needed too. But they are such different skills from those who reinvent things.
I've seen so many references to bosses, ND's Peedees, and others who are 'assholes.'
Having been out of the business a long time, I realize what's missing from the broadcast model. You don't have professional managers... people who are capable of managing people. Whiners are incapable of managing. It's just the way it is.
Companies all over the place send their new managers and supervisors to management schools to learn how to manage. But broadcasters don't.
There was a time when it didn't matter, with three TV stations in a market. A broadcast lincense was a license to steal, to make money even when poorly managed. Radio and TV were just money machines.
Competition has changed all of that and that's caught braodcasters flatfooted, without the talent to run their operations. How many managers in broadcast have MBA's, which means they've learned how to manage? Few, I bet.
Peedees get promoted from the ranks of the air staff...and the skills are just not at all the same.
You probably wouldn't know that, but that's because you'be been there too long. I didn't know it either, until I'd been out of broadcasting for awhile and seen how major corporations run things.
They train their people, they value their managers and dont' fire them at the first sign of trouble... like broadcasters do. The average tenure of a news director in telebision is what, three years?
They know news judgement but not people management. They're just different skill sets.
Sorry, didn't mean to lecture, but this is an obvious lack of sophistication in broadcasting. You don't train your people, don't send them to school, don't have seminars on interviewing skills. Maybe you do for sales staffs... but not for the production side. Do y9ou peedees know how to coach staff without pissing them off? Obviously not, since so many are labeled 'assholes'. Thats either lack of training or an unsuitable promotion.
Major corporations are constantly training their people...but not radio and TV. I think that mistake is now coming home to roost.
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