(This content was created with the help of AI.) A fixture in Bay Area radio unleashed a scathing attack on corporate radio upon being laid off from his longtime post, reports SFGate.
After 24 years at San Mateo’s 107.7 The Bone and 37 years in radio, morning host Lamont Hollywood informed fans Monday in a blistering Facebook post that he was out of a job thanks to cost-cutting by parent company Cumulus, per KRON.
- “What we are all witnessing is the tragic consequence of debt-fueled media consolidation,” he wrote.
“For years, giant corporate conglomerates bought up hundreds of radio stations using massive leverage, only to spend the next decade slashing real human talent, gutting local newsrooms, and replacing live voices with syndicated feeds and automated voice-tracking just to pay down interest on executive balance sheets.”
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