She ended a lot of careers in smaller market stations that were gutted after she outsmarted herself with her infamous cottage phone call where she fired Erin Davis and tanked CHFI's ratings.  She also drove the original Kiss 92 success into the ground by going more urban which resulted in a ratings nosedive and format flip that brought us the Jack FM failure which went on and on and on for years before Kiss finally returned.  How she survived those colossal blunders I will never know.  Having to undo the biggest decisions of your career because they were so ill-conceived would get most people fired. 

Johnny B wrote:

The survival skills of this woman are unparalleled...this may very well be the best example of executive privilege I've ever seen...her track record of blundered decisions are epic in scale...I'm surprised she isn't managing a radio cluster in Timmins, Cornwall or Red Deer never mind continual promotions and board seats...

Time for some pure speculation.  
Is she going over to CTV?  https://gta.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=8388 

And let's not forget.  She stated out as my weekend op my second time around at Q-107.  Strange; but true.

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RadioActive wrote:

John D wrote:

And let's not forget.  She stated out as my weekend op my second time around at Q-107.  Strange; but true.

Wow, I had no idea. That was back in the day when they still had board ops. Do those positions still exist at music formatted stations? Maybe on morning and afternoon drive. But with all the automation in place, I would think that's a dying profession. 

CHFI and CFNY do. Maybe CHUM? Nobody in drive - there's really nothing to 'op.'

You were very lucky to get that "perk" if you will. Most stations don't let new hires bring people with them. I know Jim Brady got to bring "Crazy" Carl Ramprashad with him when he went to CJCL. Those two were a great team and he didn't want to do a show in Toronto without his veteran producer.

Board ops weren't always a luxury, as you know. Back in the day, most of the big stations had one on most shifts. 

I remember being at the old CKEY in Toronto around 1979, when Maclean-Hunter started cutting back, and eliminated almost all the board op shifts. At the time, the great John Woodbridge, who hadn't self-op'ed a board in decades, was doing the overnights. 

As the day came near when his "guy behind the glass" was going to disappear for good, everyone was asking him, "John aren't you nervous? You haven't been behind a console in years." After days if not weeks of being asked how uncomfortable he might be about making a mistake, Woodbridge had had enough. 

On that momentous first night in question, I was working the late shift and finished at midnight. I stuck around to visit with Woodbridge in the control room just to see what would happen. As he cued up his first song and successfully played it after welcoming his audience into the all night show, he deliberately put his finger of the old slide pot/fader, moved it down to nothing for about half a second and then brought it back up to full VU volume. 

"First mistake out of the way!" he proclaimed and that put any more worries about it to bed for good.