Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicWhen radio hosts Cane and Corey were fired from their morning show gig on New York’s Alt 92.3 FM a month ago, it took them less than a half-hour to decide to take their shtick to a podcast.“As of 20 minutes ago, via Zoom, we have been let go,” said Cane Peterson at the top of a Dec.
16 episode called “WE GOT FIRED” (emphasis is theirs), which spilled all the duo’s dirty laundry in one 27-minute long rant.
The team was fired for multiple infractions on-air and off (more on that later), but they wasted no time to give their spin on the news: “We have been terminated by Audacy,” Peterson told their listeners. “‘Show Killer Mike’ literally killed the show.”Peterson was referring to Mike Kaplan, senior VP of programming at Audacy (formerly Entercom), whose company’s 2017 acquisition and subsequent revamp of the former CBS Radio chain has not endeared the executive to terrestrial old schoolers or, on the opposite coast, to longtime fans and former staff of once-influential modern rock station KROQ, which has also undergone a major revamp (including the firing of its stalwart morning drive team).
In many ways, Kaplan has been held up as a personification of radio’s decline, as the medium’s reach narrows and its corporate overlords tighten belts by thumbing their noses at high-priced on-air talent.
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