No box for Dutch, was: Re: [BC] I'm looking for work....too

[Jeff Johnson]

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>Anyone looking for a job is now going to have to compete with ABC Radio 
>employees bailing or getting canned. The two companies have vastly 
>different cultures. It'll be much like the Cap Cities takeover of ABC. 
>They cut to the bone, much the way Tisch did with CBS.
>
>Rich

What is the difference with the cultures you mention? I have seen this 
recently with WVXU's purchase by WGUC in Cincinnati. The new owners are 
much more 'button-down' and 9-5 corporate than WVXU was in an academic 
setting. All well and good, just different. The new style is evident on the 
air, and I expect it will work as well as the former, more personal style.

The same thing happens in other industries. Batesville Casket bought a 
manufacturer that built hand tooled top-of-the-line caskets and closed the 
high-end business. Those were the caskets US presidents have been buried 
in. There were none to be bought new. A best friend of mine works at a 
funeral home here in Cincinnati that owned one for the home's owner to be 
buried in. The owner sold it after much persuasion for Ronald Reagan's 
burial. So Dutch ended up being buried in a second hand box. True story, 
and all because of a corporate takeover.

Jeff.Johnson at goodnews.net