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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.
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By Just a Nam Vet
January 25, 2007 6:47 PM | Link to this
Hmmmm…just confirms how sleezy Clear Channel exec’s and program directors are in their business dealings. By the way, XM listeners who are P.O.’d by the changes, Clear Channel owns part of XM.
By Rodgnies buighesdt fdfanm
January 26, 2007 8:37 AM | Link to this
How long is a “montsh”?
one word: SPMELLSCHECK
By Smoking Aces
January 26, 2007 8:57 AM | Link to this
Don’t make Chuck Deskins out to be the heavy, he’s too much of a light-weight. The hit man whose behind this mounting stack of careers is Tom Schur, whose making his CC kill quota early this year.
By Kevin
January 26, 2007 9:20 AM | Link to this
Randy, David Paul is back from the dead. I heard the former WSB host on Newstalk AM 1270 up in Cartersville this morning. Didn’t realize he was still in the area.
By Peter Tinkham
January 26, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this
How bad are the ratings for the 680 The Fan Dan Patrick BS? And, will Atlanta ever get a solid sports radio program? Maybe we could get Jeff Van Note!
By AL
January 26, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this
Chuck Deskins = General Burkhalter Randall Bloomquist = Colonel Klink Tom Schur = Adolf Hitler
Just a bunch of bumbling idiots……..
By mre
January 26, 2007 2:42 PM | Link to this
Dunno what 680AM’s broadcast of Dan Patrick show had to do with Goss, but that show is great, especially the second hour with Olbermann.
Aw for Pete’s sake Clear channel, give Goss a job on the new Peach, already! What’s Peach without the dulcet light-adult-contemporary-radio voice of Steve Goss. He’s basically the station’s mascot!
By steel
January 26, 2007 3:37 PM | Link to this
Why, Oh Why can’t we have a radio station as great as WXRT Chichgo’ finest rock station? They have the most versital music. You would think that a city of this size could(should have)a station as great and versatal as WXRT. Dave Fm plays the same ol same ol 80’s crap. I love u2 but every hr you can bet that you will here u2. Please dave Fm please listen to WXRT and change your format!
By Dr. R
January 26, 2007 6:31 PM | Link to this
Does anyone know what happened to Country Gold Sunday nights on Eagle 106.7? The last two Sundays, they broadcast some countdown show instead. Is Rob Lee just taking time off or is the show dead? They used to advertise it as the longest-running radio show in Atlanta; it’d be a shame to lose it. I love all the old country tunes but I can’t stand the new guys in their starched Stetsons; they all sound the same to me.
By fortt3
January 29, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this
To answer Dr. R’s post, Country Gold Sunday Night was on last night, 1/28, from 7 to 9.
By Missing 94.9
February 5, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this
Thank you for the update on Steve Goss. I have been wondering about him. No doubt someone will snag him up soon; he is such a great guy and incredibly talented.