Exactly what happened to me. Years ago I hosted a three hour morning show on a 100k FM station.The show was mostly fishing and had been on the air since the 60's,over 40 years at the time. The station was sold the clear channel. The day they took over ownership they fired all of us went to satellite and changed the format to country. I went on to broadcast on numerous other stations but you never forget it when you are clear-channeled.
Didn’t exactly happen to me that way. I worked for Cumulus and was one of three on an FM morning show. We were number 2 in the market and we were a top 100 market as well.
My partner was canned at lunch at a local country club. I got the news when John Dickey flew in and since I was also Ops Mgr for our AM, I got my walking papers at Wendy’s. He then wanted to know if I was still going to cover the remote (engineering) that weekend.
Doesn’t matter what big company you work for, it can be Randy Michaels or Lew Jr. all the money goes to corporate. The rest of us were bottom feeders.