Reply #24: Alternate view from Sarge who was a frequent caller to Malloy & then had a show at Nova M:

[Garbo 2004]

He posted this on DU yesterday:

SargeUNN (51 posts) Mon Feb-16-09 01:55 PM
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20. Here is what I know that I will tell
I did a show on KPHX on Sunday Mornings and am one of the very few who actually quit and was not fired by Sheldon Drobny. The Drobnys have allowed the station rent at KPHX to go for months unpaid and then when it was time for cut off they found the money, and when we had very effective billboards here they failed to pay those which led to the end of the billboards just before the election.

Sheldon Drobny was on the ISDN line on Sunday Morning during my show and before theirs saying he was going to move the equipment to Dallas, change the locks on the station, and padlock the gate around the station. This obviously distracted my board operator Sean Ryan and instead of putting the callers on from his board, I took the callers from my side. This was passed on to Manzo who had not been informed of this until after this statement and the idea was stopped by the station owner according to my sources.

Manzo was fired after what I was told, asking questions about the founders club fund use, and while the station was actually showing profits for a couple of months, increase in advertising, and double the ratings, he was fired.

Next event was the firing of Jeff Farias which was misrepresented by the Drobnys, even in a phone call I got from Anita after I resigned from doing my show on KPHX, told me that Jeff Farias quit and was not fired that the only one that was fired was Kim, but I had heard the recording of Sheldon Drobny telling Jeff he was officially firing him. Kim's story is even more sad and shows a side of the Drobnys George W. Bush would have been proud of. Later, Sean Ryan, who in spite of the facts he had heard was fired for much the same stuff as Kim was.

The Monday that the story of Randi hit, the new station went down 6 hours here in Phoenix and since I heard before that day, that a note was on the door telling the management of the station that if the bill was not paid by Monday that the transmitter would be turned off, I can't help but believe that again the Drobnys played the we won't pay the bills game. They have fired almost everyone and have created a rift in a progressive community here that was working and growing very well.

I have heard that the situation with Randi is that the Drobnys failed to live up to their end of agreements and based on their record, it is certainly possible. What I have heard I will leave to others to reveal, but from my experience and knowledge, don't believe anything the Drobnys say because they aren't very honest folks.
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