Re(3): Scripps Had A Bloody Wednesday Of More Cuts Posted on October 27, 2023 at 01:25:34 AM by History 201
I doubt other broadcasters are enjoying whats going on .. could be they're struggling as well but keeping it to themselves. Haven't you guys been through a broadcasting devaluation?
I have. IT wasn't pretty during the 1980s when cable penetrated the industry with a vengeance. Lot of layoffs. Lot of repositioning. Floor staff disappeared. Reporters disappeared. Stations were using their SNG trucks. Everybody had a helicopter and an I-team doing special projects.
Broadcasting isn't the only industry...other than covid that did a serious tapdance on retail and restaurants. It hasn't come back either. A lot of familiar brands have left the building along with the people working in them.
The challenge is for the workforce to survive and raise their families and also retrain for the changes. Whole industries disappeared. Especially heavy industry and manufacturing that just plain dried up and went overseas. Clothing and shoemakers went to Asia and the South relied on those plants for so many small towns but those factories are just empty. A lot of skilled men arne't making good union wages, they're running lawn mowing crews to pay the bills. Lot of kids can't afford college so they just go into the workforce and do hourly work instead of management work.
Ya wont see any of that on the news, because the news staffs are no longer big enough to report economics. They just follow the cops around and fill the time by picking the low hanging fruit.
If you weren't in the business during the 80s, then you dont have previous better times to compare conditions as they are today. Ya saw what Covid did to the whole country. Wars and Depressions are cyclical and I'd suggest that we're due again. Shrug. Just position yourself, don't overextend your credit cards, pay off your debts. Buy sensible cars and places to live--unless of course you want to move in with your parents, or take on boarders like people did exactly 100 years ago in KC, Detroit, Chicago. I've learned this just studying how my own ancestors lived early last century. They got by but they made a lot of sudden changes in 1930! It shows up in the Census reports of our grandparents when they were young. Happened real suddenly. Replies: There have been no replies.
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