Expanding on what Professor Tom Jeffries just said, here is the over all "plan" of Canadian commercial stations:
Using the McDonalds hamburger business plan, all radio/television stations owned by one entity will be modeled after the head office radio/television station.
including: centralized logo and musical format, so that the same programming can at be replicated at all 50 or more stations.
Don't forget to use software programming packages from consultants in USA to round out your Canadian radio or tv station !
Go one step further and steal the programming ideas directly from KTLA or WNYW !
Centralized accounting and billing. Make one sorry "engineer" supervise all 100 corporate sticks ! LOL If multiple stations go off the air, start with the stick that makes the corporate office the most amount of money, first !
Have only one newsroom, based in Toronto, serving the entire country. Fire the rest of the news department, saving them money.
Have your television news anchors read the radio news, like at CRFA Ottawa ! LOL
Give us more meaningful Toronto traffic stories from the Don Valley Parkway, got to love it !
Pair down the staff at each station, so that there will be three on air staff, only, at each station: (morning man slash PD/music director), afternoon drive man, get your two announcers to voice track the rest of the day. The third person will be a full time salesperson, also acting as copywriter and traffic.
There,
voila ! The radio or tv station will now make the maximum amount of money, possible, for the shareholders, while nobody will find meaningful work.
Hire more BCIT grads, in lieu of polished veterans, and fire every veteran with over 10 years of experience, to save even more money !
Or: here's a better plan ? Hire everyone on contract, so that there is no benefits, such as EI and dental plan, paid out to the contractor, saving the company more money.
Then, have every radio/tv station employee work out of their frigging homes, thereby, eliminating the need for an office? Have a virtual office only, like call centres.
That will save even more money, right ?
Then, charge people to call in and make inquiries about the radio or tv station. If they want to speak to a live person, it will be $ 2.00 dollars a minute with their credit card.
Finally, have as little personal contact with human beings, as possible !
If one is looking for work, and you are management, don't forget to tell the person looking for work to cut them off and visit their corporate website and "apply online." Then, make your hiring decisions, on line, as well, using text messaging and emails only. That will save you management time and money, right. while in sit in your head office and do sweet f.a.