Friday, August 25, 2006

Clear Channel Upheaval - Not Much Here

We don't have much to say about it, because - for one, we don't know much about it...and we don't think much changes here.

Clear Channel has undertaken a major reorganization of its regional management staff, which doesn't appear to have had much effect in Northeast Ohio.

According to reports on AllAccess and Radio & Records Online, the company's Cleveland management structure remains as it is, with Cleveland-based market manager Mike Kenney keeping that role at Oak Tree, and VP/Programming Gene Romano also continuing in that role in this part of the Clear Channel universe...overseeing Cleveland cluster programmer Kevin Metheny and individual station programmers.

If we missed anything, we'll let you know. For one, we don't know how all this affects the company's clusters outside of Cleveland... but for now, things appear status quo in this part of the world of CC...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think this story is being underreported, or spun, or covered up. There is more here than meets the eye.

By the way, Gene Romano is a Senior VP/Programming, not just regional. Don't know if that happened today, or a while ago.

I bet he and Kevin Metheny have interesting meetings.

Anonymous said...

this is not being underreported...it is what it is....a reorganization........

mike was one of 10 managers named President GM so how bad' can that be...

quit looking for stuff under a rock when there is none..

Johnny Morgan said...

Gene Romano is Senior VP/Programming for the area called Eastern-Central. It's probably a bit bigger than the region he heads now (he's based in Pittsburgh).

Kenney maintains essentially his tasks, but seems to be concentrated solely on Cleveland rather than other area "markets" he may have been handling (e.g., any leftover Cincy stuff he might have dabbled in).

As I mentioned elsewhere, it's really just new business cards as far as Cleveland is concerned.