Metro Networks, Clear Channel Cuts Coming

Story by DCRTV

DCRTV is hearing rumblings of cuts coming to Metro Networks in Silver Spring. And at parent Clear Channel stations nationwide. We should know more tomorrow, Wednesday.

On the way out, for sure, at Metro is John Frawley, VP of broadcasting, and Mollie Simpkins, a regional director of operations. No word on the fate of Jim Russ, head honcho at Metro's Silver Spring facility. Metro provides traffic and news reports for many DC and Baltimore area radio and TV stations.

A Metro source tells DCRTV that they should be categoried as "changes" rather than "cuts."

As for the Clear Channel cuts locally, no names yet. But the firm owns about a dozen radio stations in the immediate DC-Baltimore area.