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Hcgazette Newsletter Volume 7 • Issue 3 • Third Quarter 2016 909 North Railroad Street Eagle River, WI 54521 (715) 479-4451 HHCCGG aazzeettttee “One of America’s Finest Small Market Radio Broadcasting Companies” Heartland Names Charlie Thomas In This as Ashland Market GM Issue get to have my cake director from Chattanooga, Page 2 . and eat it too,” Char - TN and our numbers went Pres. Release “Ilie Thomas recently way up!” told the HCGazette. Thomas “I am thrilled to be joining Page 4 . realized his dream when he was Heartland Communica - Ashland News able to return home to his NW tions,” Thomas said. “ First, Wisconsin childhood farm and I fulfill a dream of returning Page 5 . home near South Range, WI. to the area and purchasing Eagle River News “It’s hard to take the farm out of the family farm I grew up on a guy.” Thomas went on to say, and then returning to a man - “And, I get to manage some agement position with a Jim Coursolle, CRMC great Heartland radio stations in amazing company that President and CEO NW Wisconsin as well.” shares the same philosophies At an early age, Thomas fell Charlie Thomas of creating great local radio Wendi Ell, newsletter in love with radio broadcasting Ashland for the communities they designer and and left the NW area to pursue a General Manager serve. It’s rare when you get publisher career as a broadcaster. But, to have your cake and eat it after many years, his longing to Thomas decided to contact too.” states Thomas. return home drove him to at - Heartland CEO, Jim Coursolle Thomas has spent 30+ www.heartlandcomm.com tempt to purchase back the 200 to discuss the Ashland GM po - years in radio broadcasting; acre farm in Douglas County, sition. Coursolle said, “I knew he’s been an on-air personal - Media. Before that, Charlie WI that had been in his family Charlie was a terrific radio guy. ity, program director, a top was Market Manager of the for 111 years. Thomas com - When I owned WPKR, Apple - salesperson and a market Clear Channel cluster in Mason pleted that purchase a couple of ton/Oshkosh, Charlie was the general manager. Charlie has City, Iowa for 4 years. He also years ago, but also remained a PD at US96 (WUSW). He was extensive general manager ex - spent 9 years as Program Direc - broadcaster as an account exec - kicking our butt and when he perience, having spent 2 years tor/Operations Manager/Air utive for Townsquare Media in resigned to take another posi - as General Manager of a 4-sta - Talent of the Clear Channel the Duluth/Superior market ris - tion out of the market, I brought tion cluster in the Stevens cluster in Lincoln, Nebraska ing to the top salesperson in his in subs and we had a small cele - Point/Wausau, Wisconsin mar - which, at that time, included company. bration! With Charlie gone, the ket and 8 years as General Man - KZKX, KKNB, KIBX and When former Ashland GM, owner of US96 then sold the ager of a 6-station cluster in KTGL, Scott Jaeger, resigned in July station. WPKR proceeded to Shreveport, Louisiana for Clear after 11 years with Heartland, hire Joel Dearing, a #1 program Channel and later Townsquare See Thomas , Page 3 Thanks Scott! cott Jaeger has resigned as grateful for his service to Heartland General Manager of the — he will be greatly missed. I had SHeartland Ashland cluster the privilege to work with Scott for of stations WBSZ, WJJH, WNXR 6 of his 11 years at Heartland. and WATW. Scott Jaeger was em - Everyone at Heartland wishes him ployed as General Manager for the all the best for the future in his new Ashland broadcast cluster for 11 endeavor.” years. Jaeger’s last day as Ashland Scott Jaeger According to Jim Coursolle, Heartland GM was July 20, 2016. Heartland CEO, “Scott was about as He was succeeded by experienced Former Ashland General Manager good of a GM as one could ever broadcaster Charlie Thomas on July hope to have on board. I am very 25, 2016. Page 2 Volume 7 • Issue 3 • Third Quarter 2016 PPrreess.. RReelleeaassee azette K, I’m going to pull rank due to Here’s the problem. They see me coming bought a watch with a titanium band…it HHCCGG azette my age (73 on August 27th). If I at Goodwill and the run to lock the doors. goes with everything. I have three or four Ocan give anyone advice inter - I may be the cause for paying many over - “dead” watches that need to find their way ested enough in reading this tome, I would time hours??? to Goodwill… or maybe St. Vincent De - shout out “”Don’t collect (hoard) it!” I used to like watches. You have to Paul (they won’t recognize me so they’ll My wife and I are admit there are some pretty cool watches let me in). moving from our out there. I must have admitted that to my - I just found a sweater that I didn’t know home in Campbell - self at one time. I have a watch with a I owned; it must have been from the 70s. I sport, WI where we black band and one with a brown band… am disowning it. have lived for the last both need batteries. It’s a fulltime job just We’re moving into a condo which is 12 years. And, when keeping the darn things in batteries. Who’s quite a bit smaller than our current home. we moved to our cur - got any time left to wear them? I finally Where am I going to hang all of these pic - rent home, we brought tures we have “collected.” What do you do a lot of stuff with us. with them? Do I sort of change out pic - Yes, we certainly Jim Coursolle tures every two weeks…giving the condo tossed out some (filled President, CEO a whole new look? Yup…maybe picture a full-sized dumpster), rotation is the way to go? Or do I take but “carried forward” down the pictures and hang up one of a lot of “can’t live 5000 Christmas ornaments on each one of without it” stuff with us. We are now con - the picture hangers on the wall? fronted with “divesting” translated as DVDs, CDs, cassettes, VHS, Beta, (I did “parting with” even more stuff. get rid of all of the 8 tracks before the last Take my tie “collection” for example. It move). Good Lord, there isn’t enough time consists of more “Father’s Day” ties than in 50 years to watch all these movies and there are Father’s Days in my lifetime. what to do with the CDs…. I’m supposed I’m going to either have to learn how to to be listening to our radio stations; who wear three or four ties at the same time or needs CDs? take some (many) to Goodwill SOON. See Moving , Page 3 July Top Sellers Birthday “Broadcasts” August 12th – Sally North – Ashland Market Managers 27th – Jim Coursolle – Corporate Scott Jaeger ......................$11,662 Craig Whetstine ..................$10,098 septemBer Sales Reps 14th – Jim Hedican – Ashland John Warren ......................$27,739 14th – Wendi Ell – Corporate Rob Zimbler ........................$19,302 OctOBer Sally North..........................$18,541 rd Trish Keeley ......................$17,120 3 – Marion Warren – Ashland 5th – Craig Whetstine – Eagle River 25th – Mike “Wolf” Ell – Eagle River 28th – “Skip” Hedican – Ashland Volume 7 • Issue 3 • Third Quarter 2016 Page 3 Moving, from Page 1 Glasses, towels, sheets, pillow cases, cans of soup and tuna fish… H E L P !!! I think we’ve gone over the packing tape and cardboard box budget limit. I keep hearing that packing-tape sound as I pull the packing tape dispenser over another box top. I dreamt I took a part- time job with Mayflower Moving and woke up wearing a Pilgrim hat eating a turkey leg from the freezer we’re trying to clean out. Here’s the good news though…I found a couple of pairs of socks — without holes in them — that I can actually put to good use. Because I have been in radio broadcasting since around the time Marconi got out of his early pizza business and began inventing radio transmission, I can NEVER downplay spending money in local stores. We need to sell ads to merchants so they can sell stuff to you. It keeps the economy going. But, I have learned…use the stuff, then make a trip to St. Vincent DePaul or Goodwill and then go out and buy more. Consume stuff…don’t collect stuff. If you don’t pay attention to that detail, you will find yourself haul - ing and packing and hauling and packing and begging your kids to take your fourth set of BBQ tools or a Tony Mandarich Sports Illustrated cover (isn’t ‘Mandarich’ something like ‘Sloppy Joes’ that you put in a bun?) or an old pair of hiking boots that you wore once and then spent the next three months making some podiatrist rich fixing your blisters. I am going to buy one of those books on “Simplifying” right after I get rid of a gazillion books (I may have a “Windows 95 for Dummies” book that may bring a little money…). You realize how fortunate we are to live in America where we have problems like doing away with years of “affluence” and pants with 30 inch waists (I’m up to a 36 inch waist now). Save your kids some grief…take a box of stuff every quarter to Goodwill or St.
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