WATCH: Inside the iHeart Layoffs
Former KFI News Director Chris Little joins today's Archer & Feldman podcast
The names keep coming.
Every day, another familiar voice disappears from another radio station.
The list of iHeartMedia layoffs has become so long that no one seems entirely sure where it ends. Names are still being added today.
I’ve written extensively about what’s happening because it’s one of the biggest stories the broadcasting industry has faced in decades. But there was one perspective I wanted that I couldn’t provide myself.
What is it like to be the person delivering the news?
Chris Little knows.
As News Director at KFI Los Angeles, Chris had one of the hardest jobs in broadcasting. He sat across from talented journalists and told them their careers at the station were over.
I know because I was one of them.
Then, after years of making those impossible decisions, Chris found himself on the receiving end. His own position disappeared.
That gives him a perspective few people in broadcasting have ever experienced.
On the latest episode of Archer & Feldman, Charles Feldman and I talk with Chris about what’s really happening inside iHeartMedia, why these cuts keep coming, whether local radio can survive as more stations replace local talent with syndicated programming and automation, and what the future of the industry may look like.
Watch the full episode here: