Good Riddance Radio
Poem (Audio)
This is the biz,
Good Riddance Radio.
“Here today, gone tomorrow”
No proper swan song send off.
No pat-on-the-back sorrow
from upper management.
Your wisdom, your years put in
on the airwaves mean nothing.
Your engaging persona and even
your ratings and demos don’t matter.
As quick as a turn of the dial
comes management’s burn.
It’s out you go,
exit left with muscle guard escort detail.
Check’s in the mail.
Take your table trinkets.
No trace of you shall remain.
No one cares that you feel bereft.
Don’t think you’re going
to be on top in radio forever.
You’d be dead wrong!
Radio will rid you like trash.
It’s the same ol’ song
sure as all sin to play out.
Commentary on Poem:
This is an all too common story in the radio biz. Longtime radio personalities taken off the air abruptly for supposed cost-cutting reasons or- just because. Senority, in position and company, is not given much concern. At the time I conjured up this piece, I heard about the letting go of longtime DJ, “Frosty”, from Los Angeles FM station, KLOS. Showbiz sucks!
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