Latest on Donni G's Podcast. Sounds like there has been a set back. If were talking October of 2010 may be Don will tell CBS to Fxxk OFF Ad finum..
PODCAST DONE BEFORE IT STARTED
I am totally wrecked right now. After two months of talking, meeting, and more talking, it turns out there will be NO podcasting for me via CBSradio.
Here's why: Content, and ON THE AIR restrictions.
After we shook hands last week and I started Twittering about it, I opened a nice surprise email bundle from CBS. It contained a copy of these documents/pamphlets.
'CBS RADIO INDECENCY POLICY
and
'CBS RADIO: WORDS THAT HURT AND HARM'
Only then did I realize that CBS was going to hold an OFF the AIR podcast to the same 'standards' as if it WERE being broadcast over the FCC airwaves.
The execs at CBS did tell me they didn't do their due diligence correctly. It was only AFTER we had an agreement they 'discovered' the CBS corporate policy and let me know.
Don't get me wrong. I long to broadcast. When I walked away from my job and my paycheck a year ago, it was to get my shit together. Job done. I'm ready and eager to go back to work. However, CBSradio controls my rights until October 2010.
After deciding there was no current slot for me on their stations, we started the podcast dance. I'm quite sure that a podcast that would be edited for content and language would not exactly be what you'd want to hear. Or I'd want to do. A watered down show would be embarrassing.
It would be one thing to be held to these ridiculous standards IF I were going back to broadcast radio. But to do a podcast? No way.
I promise you IF they had mentioned this AT ALL in ANY of our conversations, I would have said no thanks. As a matter of fact, we discussed the creative luxuries podcasting provides.
I have discovered in the last year how much broadcasting means to me, and how much the people who have listened to me over the years mean to me as well.
The LAST thing I would do knowingly would be to jerk your chain about a return. The second to last thing I'd do is a half assed subjectively edited long form podcast.
So unless some other P.O.S. station in OceanCity/Salisbury comes knockin, I'm CBS's bitch until October 2010.
I am sorry for ever having publicly brought this up. I have standards, and this project just fell way below them.
Thanks for all your continued support. I'll still Twitter and blog. But today I am bummed out of my mind. I have been blessed to have been rewarded for my hard work over the years, and at this point have a desire to return that is fueled simply by my passion and love for broadcasting. And interacting with people.
Translation: I don't need the bucks (wouldn't turn down my old salary, tho). I just have loved radio for 35+ years. It's my career and my hobby. I'll get back in when the current contract situation is up. I would do almost anything to get back in.
Just not like this.
I really hope you understand and can accept my apology.
Now we're off to find a bar open at 9am!
d.
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