More Programming Brilliance by Tim Sabean

[isabella]

I don't know what's more disturbing - the fact that Howard's entire operation is a major cluster-fuck or the fact that no one (including Howard) realizes how bad it is or has a plan to fix it. A few weeks ago a caller complained that he didn't like Jay Thomas on Fridays and Howard told him to switch to H101 and listen to "old stuff" instead, completely unaware that Jay is on H101 and it has very little "old stuff". I know Howard says he depends on Tim to handle the channels but it's clear to everyone that he's not up to the task. It doesn't take a budget to come up with a schedule and make sure you don't have the same show playing on both channels at the same time but Tim can't even handle that. A few meetings won't help, they need to clean to clean house - get rid of Tim and scrap the entire programming line-up and start from scratch. That's the only way to salvage this mess.

tim obviously knows where the bodies are buried....he's a pathetic failure at programming.

[tv910]

Just took a look at this week's H101 schedule on the SiriusXM website (I don't know why I bother, it's always wrong) and there are several time periods where all they do is keep repeating the same group of shows over and over for hours. Example:

Wednesday 1/23
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Super Fan Roundtable
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Dealin' Straight
10:00 pm – 11:00 pm Super Fan Roundtable
11:00 pm – Wednesday Midnight Stern Show Shuffle

Thursday 1/24
Wednesday Midnight – 2:00 am Stern Show Shuffle
2:00 am – 3:00 am Super Fan Roundtable
3:00 am – 5:00 am Dealin' Straight
5:00 am – 6:00 am Stern Show Shuffle

Wow, that meeting they had last Friday made a big difference. Tim really stepped up his game.

[tv910]

Here's another one:

Tuesday 1/29
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Stern Show Shuffle
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Jackie's Joke Hunt
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Stern Show Shuffle
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Riley Martin
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Jackie's Joke Hunt
9:00 pm – 10:00 pm Stern Show Shuffle
10:00 pm – 11:00 pm Riley Martin
11:00 pm – Tuesday Midnight Stern Show Shuffle

Welcome to The Revolution.

[username]

It would be interesting to know how much the show budget is that Sirius provide. The rumours are about 20 millions.

Howard spends 99% on his show.
0.9% on Tim Sabean who is in charge over the rest 0.1%.

Tims salary is bigger then the channels budget combine!

[ryanv1978]

I don't understand why you guys sweat this stuff. It's perfectly clear that both channels have been, are, and will continue to be pure shit. They will not get any better. If there are any new shows that might be entertaining, it will be by chance, not by design, and they won't last. There is no reason whatsoever to believe that the Stern channels will ever improve. All evidence points to the contrary.

nothing more true can be said

[trojans888]

nothing more true can be said

99.9% of radio programming sucks. Why sweat the channells? Anything good will be random.

[Matwiow]

"We plan our sucesses. Then we go out and execute the plan."

A gigantic-er putz there has never been.

[tv910]

If Howard was as smart as he thinks he is, he never would have hired Tim to program the channels. Howard always said he envisioned H101 more like a TV channel with a lot of different shows and hosts. It's nothing like the terrestrial radio stations Tim is used to and someone with TV expereience would have been a much better choice. If he really cared about the quality of the channels Howard would have replaced Tim by now, since he clearly has no idea what he's doing.

[rilagent]

If Howard was as smart as he thinks he is, he never would have hired Tim to program the channels. Howard always said he envisioned H101 more like a TV channel with a lot of different shows and hosts. It's nothing like the terrestrial radio stations Tim is used to and someone with TV expereience would have been a much better choice. If he really cared about the quality of the channels Howard would have replaced Tim by now, since he clearly has no idea what he's doing.

Like it's been said, Tim's not the problem. Steven Spielberg couldn't do anything with the $0 budget and the level of talent walking around those halls.

If Howard was smart he would have tried to live up to his promises of revolution so he would have a valuable commodity that would have gathered him a better contract this time around, legions of fans and no need to do AGT for notice. He was penny wise and pound foolish.

[tv910]

Like it's been said, Tim's not the problem. Steven Spielberg couldn't do anything with the $0 budget and the level of talent walking around those halls.

If Howard was smart he would have tried to live up to his promises of revolution so he would have a valuable commodity that would have gathered him a better contract this time around, legions of fans and no need to do AGT for notice. He was penny wise and pound foolish.

Even with a $0 budget, anyone with a pulse should be able to avoid playing the same show on both channels at the same time (like last Sunday) and replaying the same show 3 times in a few hours (SFRT is on at 7:00 PM, 10:00 PM, and 2:00 AM tonight).

[rilagent]

Even with a $0 budget, anyone with a pulse should be able to avoid playing the same show on both channels at the same time (like last Sunday) and replaying the same show 3 times in a few hours (SFRT is on at 7:00 PM, 10:00 PM, and 2:00 AM tonight).

I stand corrected. Tim sucks as much as the rest of them. Even though I was giving him a pass on the quality of the shows he's definitely the culprit in the programming idiocy. Which is really idiotic because a little macro in Excel or Outlook could weed out any conflicts or recently played shows. Tim has no excuses unless somehow it's because of interference by Howard.

[lilbuddy67]

His contract with Howard must have been iron clad because he sucks at his job. He's less of a programming director and more of a revenue generator (in form of commercials). Did the same thing in Chicago and fucked radio up for good.