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Thursday, January 25, 2007
1/26: Steve Goss update
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With so many jocks unemployed, I can fill numerous blog items with updates on them. I wrote about the Kimmer Wednesday so how about fellow Clear Channel Atlanta expat Steve Goss?
Goss is actively looking for a job, too, just like the Kimmer. But he doesn’t have an agent. He’s flying solo on this one. He spent 27-plus years at Peach/Lite but is willing to do not just soft rock but also country, classic rock, Christian pop, even news. Like most jocks who live in Atlanta a long time, he’d like to stay but he’s willing to look elsewhere if the right opportunity pops up.
“I have no regrets about the time when I was at Peach and Lite,” he said. “I have no regrets about any of that experience. It was a wonderful, completely satisfying way to make a living.”
He said he was recently in Macon after his wife’s mom passed away and heard the new Peach 96.5, which has the old Peach call letters WPCH-FM, the old Peach logo and even the same voiceover guy reading the liners. “It was like through the looking glass,” mused Goss. “Bizarro world!”
He also confirmed the memo from market manager Chuck Deskins a few months ago informing staff not to talk to the media without prior permission from the higher ups. Although I heard this was a firable offense, the memo never explicitly said so. It may have simply been the subtext. And I had lunch today with former research head (fired December 20, 2006) Susan deBonis, who said marketing manager David Demer (fired about the same time) said talking to me was even worse than just any media person. I guess I should be flattered. I don’t think either deBonis or Demer were fired for talking to me. They were just… fired.
