Moe Lauzier smells age discrimination in his firing

[MauOB@aol.com]

My feeling it is purely economics and loss of interest in local  programming. 
  I am sure there will be the dreaded infomercials  in place soon.  I suppose 
contracts and recordings would take more  than a week to put in place.  Don't 
they usually have a local host these  infomercial programs?  Who would be 
likely to do these?
 
Maureen
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 3/6/2008 2:46:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
kvahey@comcast.net writes:

The  Herald today looks at length at Entercom's firing of Moe Lauzier
and hints  that Jason Wolfe is not being entirely truthful on  the
matter.

http://bostonherald.com/business/media/view.bg?&articleid=1078136&format=&page
=2&listingType=media#articleFull

Wolfe  sent an email finally to Lauzier snd said

"We do have several companies  that are willing to spend extremely
significant dollars to take over  certain hours on the station, and
that, nothing more, was the reason I  chose to go in this direction."

However there were no infomercials in  place last week

During Lauzier's old morning slot last Saturday, repeat  shows of Tom
Finneran, Reese Hopkins and Howie Carr aired. There was no  paid
programming.

Julie Kahn also sent an email to  Lauzier
"Sadly, your tenure and talent had you earning a higher hourly  wage
then all other part-time on-air talent. We simply could not afford  to
pay your rate vis-a-vis the revenue that the show and day  generates."

Meanwhile longtime WEEI producer Rene Marchando may also be  the victim
of age. Rene is 57.

What is really stunning about this is  how Jason did not have the guts
to fire Moe face to face and instead had  the producer do it during his
last show. Jason seems to forget the way he  was let go by Tom Star
years ago when Tom vanished into the night leaving  unpaid staffers and
landlords wondering what happened.

However in  fairness the Herald article also hints that Kahn is under
major pressure  from the home office in Philadelphia to cut costs.

This Red Sox  contract is killing them.





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