Re(3): Broken NEWS - Scripps Broadcasting planing layoffs. Posted on January 15, 2023 at 01:53:04 PM by Career planner
Are you in TV or radio? Both are automating due to the competition for eyes and ears. A lot of consolidation and automation. TV has lost its basic function which is to deliver New York programming to the market's households. Radio suffers from technology proliferating from the internet services that have become inexpensive, even commercial free. All signs are that the consolidations and efficiencies will continue.
How can a company normally as lean as
radio lay off a lot of staff?
Are their a lot of people who don't contribute either to sales or delivery of the audio?
Most stations' logs aren't full, so either they have bad sales decisions, or listening is down and the stations have chosen not to cut the rates to match competition for ears. Management problem? Tough market conditions?
Or are the laid off people out of programming so more automation is coming, more of the virtual Walmartization of radio? WHere I live, there are two jocks and the rest of it is automated at the stations. No news to cut...its already gone.
Seems to me those surviving need to make some career decisions and procure the career retraining to move on like most already have! It's probably a bad decision to let any employer decide your career future.
What are you doing? You work to eat. You hve 3 decisions to make.
1. Have you chosen a career you are trained to perform and one that has a need for your services.
2. Do you Like the work and it gives you satisfaction?
3. Does it pay the salary for the standard of living you and your family require?
Those are the basics of career planning. Find a career that meets all three needs, and get it done! You can expect through your life, you'll have to periodically reevaluate those things because your needs have changed or the marketplace where you work has.
I'm retired now, living off my stored productivity. I made major changes in those fifty years three or four times. Today few people work for one company doing the same thing and getting a gold watch, a party and a retirement nestegg. The workplace has changed and generally not for the benefit of the working class. So if you're not all that happy, you're not alone. Replies: