Letter: Fire the station manager, not the talent

Friday, Dec. 11, 1998 | 12:10 p.m.

Why is it the radio host is the one to be "down-sized." Why does Tom Humm do the firing and retain his lucrative position at the station? If the hosts aren't doing well for the station, maybe Humm should have been the one to lose his job for hiring them, then firing them, then re-hiring them (as he did Brascia), then re-firing him. It sounds to me that Humm doesn't know what he's doing!

Meanwhile, they all say "no comment" to give the illusion that they are "big corporate giants who are too good to comment," even though they are obviously in dire need of being commented on! They didn't even let Brascia say goodbye!

Why do you think that is? Unfortunately, it sounds like it's just some jerk (or group of them) who wishes he or she was at CBS in New York, but are stuck on Sahara Avenue in Vegas, pretending to be in the big leagues at KXNT.

Hats off to the Sun for being brave enough to do what KXNT tried to prevent, giving these hosts a chance to speak their minds. They are human beings, and by you writing about it, as KXNT would not have had you do, you show everyone that these two radio hosts were significant enough, and talented enough, to be worthy of a story about their departure.

That's instead of KXNT trying to sweep it quietly under the rug.

Justin Reimer