WJLB/WMXD moving operations to Farmington
http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/ind...topic=155619.0
Like whoa.. apparently Clear Channel is consolidating operations, and moving the R&B stations to the Farmington headquarters, 12 mile.. I wonder how this will work out for interns, present and future, who live in the city.. you basically have to have a car now..
and what will become of the vacant space in the Penobscot building?
WDIV Campus Martius Broadcasts
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BrushStart
One would think being dowtown would give these media companies more visibility and more credibility. You'd think they'd want to locate in a prominent building and have the billboard-style, ticker-tape marquees with news updates attached to the building. I'd like to see one of the local stations have a newsroom with a window facing the street, or hold a morning show in Campus Martius. I might actually watch that, but instead all I see is a bunch of negative nonsense about the city being reported from out in Southfield somewhere. This is probably why I learn of news faster by word-of-mouth on the street than from any of our news organizations.
During Super Bowl XL weekend, WDIV broadcast its morning show from Campus Martius Park inside a temporary outdoor studio [[little more than a very fancy tent. But I was hoping that they'd continue the format by, perhaps, getting space in the Compuware Building facing the park. Also, during the buildup to the automaker bailouts, the network set-up a studio in one the towers downtown, and did broadcasts for Dateline with the skyline, including the Renaissance Center, as a backdrop. Does anyone remember this? Do you foresee one of the news studios doing this permanently?