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Entertainment / Re: KRMG sold to Zoellner grou...
Last post by patric - Today at 09:12:25 PMQuote from: swake on Today at 08:28:47 AMZoellner is a super MAGA Q-Qnon idiot. This is going to be... Interesting.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/clay-clark-reawaken-america-maga-tour-trump-1234594574/
I guess KRMG was too liberal for his tastes...
#2
Entertainment / Re: KRMG sold to Zoellner grou...
Last post by swake - Today at 08:28:47 AMZoellner is a super MAGA Q-Qnon idiot. This is going to be... Interesting.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/clay-clark-reawaken-america-maga-tour-trump-1234594574/
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/clay-clark-reawaken-america-maga-tour-trump-1234594574/
#3
Development & New Businesses / Re: New Utica Square Construct...
Last post by dbacksfan 2.0 - May 21, 2025, 07:30:13 PMSo, after almost 10 years since Petty's was forced out and Miss Jackson's closed up shop there is still no plan for Utica Square and that part in particular, and 22 years since the H&P building was demoed there is still no plan for that part of the area.
Sadly, I think that whatever happens with a sale/investment of Utica Square it will never look like it does now. It will probably resemble the Tuscan/Spanish development built immediately south on 22nd Street, and with Hudson Bay selling off Saks, which also ownsNeedless Markup Neiman Marcus being in financial trouble it's possible Saks could leave as well.
Sadly, I think that whatever happens with a sale/investment of Utica Square it will never look like it does now. It will probably resemble the Tuscan/Spanish development built immediately south on 22nd Street, and with Hudson Bay selling off Saks, which also owns
#4
Entertainment / KRMG sold to Zoellner group
Last post by patric - May 21, 2025, 06:31:37 PMCox Media Group is divesting its Tulsa cluster to a local entrepreneur and first-time radio owner. The deal includes KRMG 102.3 FM and 740 AM, K95.5 (KWEN), Mix 96.5 (KRAV), and 103.3 The Eagle (KJSR) and is expected to close in the early second half of 2025.
The acquisition, pending FCC approval, signals an investment in local radio by Zoellner Media Group, which is owned by Tulsa optometrist Dr. Robert H. Zoellner.
Dr. Zoellner has long been a vocal supporter of local broadcasting, having used radio advertising extensively to build his businesses since launching his first optometry clinic in 1991. To lead operations, Dr. Zoellner has appointed veteran CMG market leader Steve Hunter as President and General Manager. Hunter brings more than two decades of experience at CMG Tulsa, Scripps Radio, and Griffin Media.
https://radioink.com/2025/05/19/cox-media-group-sells-all-tulsa-stations-to-area-optometrist/
The acquisition, pending FCC approval, signals an investment in local radio by Zoellner Media Group, which is owned by Tulsa optometrist Dr. Robert H. Zoellner.
Dr. Zoellner has long been a vocal supporter of local broadcasting, having used radio advertising extensively to build his businesses since launching his first optometry clinic in 1991. To lead operations, Dr. Zoellner has appointed veteran CMG market leader Steve Hunter as President and General Manager. Hunter brings more than two decades of experience at CMG Tulsa, Scripps Radio, and Griffin Media.
https://radioink.com/2025/05/19/cox-media-group-sells-all-tulsa-stations-to-area-optometrist/
#5
Development & New Businesses / Re: New Utica Square Construct...
Last post by patric - May 19, 2025, 08:54:43 PMUtica Square's owners announced they are going to do... something....
This week, Helmerich and Payne announced it had engaged Eastdil Secured, a national commercial brokerage firm, to explore future options for Utica Square.
"At the same time, we are beginning to explore opportunities with a strategic partner or buyer that can take the Square into the future. This exercise is consistent with a larger companywide review of all our assets following the largest acquisition in our history and the timing is right for us to explore the future possibilities for this exceptional property."
https://www.okenergytoday.com/2025/05/future-options-explored-for-helmerich-and-paynes-utica-square-shopping-center/
This week, Helmerich and Payne announced it had engaged Eastdil Secured, a national commercial brokerage firm, to explore future options for Utica Square.
"At the same time, we are beginning to explore opportunities with a strategic partner or buyer that can take the Square into the future. This exercise is consistent with a larger companywide review of all our assets following the largest acquisition in our history and the timing is right for us to explore the future possibilities for this exceptional property."
https://www.okenergytoday.com/2025/05/future-options-explored-for-helmerich-and-paynes-utica-square-shopping-center/
#6
Entertainment / Re: Kid Rock’s restaurant work...
Last post by swake - May 16, 2025, 10:59:55 AMWe have 4.2% unemployment in the US while 4.3% of US jobs are unfilled. So we sit at 100.1% employment with most unfilled jobs being unskilled and most newly unemployed being IT/tech right now. They don't match.
As we are now actively deporting 4-5% of the workforce for being illegal, most of them being unskilled or doing skilled jobs like roofing that others don't want, jobs that we already can't fill, what is supposed to happen to the economy? Who works in meat packing? Who works the fields picking vegetables? Washes dishes in restaurants? Cooks our food? Cleans our houses?
Stitt is bringing in a $4 aluminum plant, and that's good and all, but do you want your kids working in an office or working a smelter for less money?
What are we doing?
None of this makes sense....
As we are now actively deporting 4-5% of the workforce for being illegal, most of them being unskilled or doing skilled jobs like roofing that others don't want, jobs that we already can't fill, what is supposed to happen to the economy? Who works in meat packing? Who works the fields picking vegetables? Washes dishes in restaurants? Cooks our food? Cleans our houses?
Stitt is bringing in a $4 aluminum plant, and that's good and all, but do you want your kids working in an office or working a smelter for less money?
What are we doing?
None of this makes sense....
#7
Entertainment / Re: Kid Rock’s restaurant work...
Last post by Red Arrow - May 15, 2025, 08:37:11 PMQuote from: patric on May 15, 2025, 05:22:19 PM"Around 9.30pm on Saturday, our manager came back and told anyone without legal status to go home," one anonymous employee told the outlet.
I have to respect that manager's choice. Unfortunately, it will probably get him/her fired.
#8
Entertainment / Re: Kid Rock’s restaurant work...
Last post by dbacksfan 2.0 - May 15, 2025, 08:04:16 PMKid Rock licenses his name for the bar, it's actually run by a guy named Steve Smith who owns several Nashville bars.
https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/lower-broadway-ice-sweeps/article_7840f5c5-fba5-447c-bb20-14016fc661aa.html
Much like the restaurants and bars are owned by TC Restaurant Group licensing the names of various celebrities.
https://tcrestaurantgrp.com/
https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/lower-broadway-ice-sweeps/article_7840f5c5-fba5-447c-bb20-14016fc661aa.html
QuoteAt the instruction of managers, restaurant employees without legal citizenship status left the premises at The Diner, Honky Tonk Central and Kid Rock's Big donkey Honky Tonk Rock N' Roll Steakhouse during a primetime rush on Saturday night to avoid detention by ICE agents. Locations, already struggling to provide full service, suffered through at least Sunday due to fears from employees who did not want to risk arrest by returning to work.
Much like the restaurants and bars are owned by TC Restaurant Group licensing the names of various celebrities.
https://tcrestaurantgrp.com/
#9
Entertainment / Kid Rock’s restaurant workers ...
Last post by patric - May 15, 2025, 05:22:19 PMThe restaurant Kid Rock's was among several others in Nashville owned by the conservative restaurateur and Donald Trump supporter Steve Smith where undocumented kitchen staff were asked to go home to avoid rumored immigration raids this weekend.
The restaurant – whose full name is Kid Rock's Big donkey Honky Tonk Rock N' Roll Steakhouse, and is licensed by the rightwing musician Kid Rock, who has also become one of the US president's highest-profile supporters – reportedly found itself struggling to serve post-concert crowds on Saturday night after the order from managers instructing employees without legal status to leave, according to the Nashville Scene.
"Around 9.30pm on Saturday, our manager came back and told anyone without legal status to go home," one anonymous employee told the outlet.
"Events at the Ryman, Ascend, the Savannah Bananas' baseball game all let out, and it was crazy busy. But there was no one in the kitchen to cook the food."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/kid-rock-restaurant-ice-raids
The restaurant – whose full name is Kid Rock's Big donkey Honky Tonk Rock N' Roll Steakhouse, and is licensed by the rightwing musician Kid Rock, who has also become one of the US president's highest-profile supporters – reportedly found itself struggling to serve post-concert crowds on Saturday night after the order from managers instructing employees without legal status to leave, according to the Nashville Scene.
"Around 9.30pm on Saturday, our manager came back and told anyone without legal status to go home," one anonymous employee told the outlet.
"Events at the Ryman, Ascend, the Savannah Bananas' baseball game all let out, and it was crazy busy. But there was no one in the kitchen to cook the food."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/kid-rock-restaurant-ice-raids
#10
Other Tulsa Discussion / Re: Our fragile, neglected in...
Last post by heironymouspasparagus - May 12, 2025, 07:55:43 PMIf it ain't full of lies, it ain't Putin Fox Mews.