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So I'm reading in this airlines magazine how to save your job even though you think you shouldn't have to since you just received a glowing performance report from your boss.

The article mentions a woman who ended up being the only person left on her high-rise floor in a West Coast office. She was the one who finalized plans for all those transferred or fired.

The thing is, you just don't know, which is why WDTN (Ch. 2) vice-president and general manager Lisa Barhorst was reluctant to say anything about her station's plans in light of owner LIN broadcasting cutting 150 jobs nationwide.

At the moment, there are no plans to change.

Barhorst said she was happy with the way her station was operating and there were no plans to cut sports, as was done recently at LIN-owned WUPW, a Fox affiliate in Toledo. WUPW not only cut sports anchor Brad Fanning and photographer Adam Meyer, but the station discontinued weeknight sportscasts and will have only weekend sports programming.

"We have no plans to do something like that," Barhorst said, "although I'm reluctant to say anything like that because things change and someone will say, 'But you said ... ' "

LIN, of course, only recently struck a deal with Time Warner to carry its station following a brief takeoff when the contract between LIN and WDTN ran out. And WDTN came back in HD on Time Warner, too, so there has been some good media news in the past few months.

Otherwise, all media have been hit hard. The report out of Toledo was part of a story about 25 layoffs at the Toledo Blade newspaper. It included information about Raycom Media Inc. trimming six people from its WTOL station and how earlier in the year WNWO made several cuts of its staff.

On the other side, there have actually been some hires that have worked out well, at least to this point.

Now that former coach Bob Knight works for ESPN, he's being used during the day on several talk shows, and he is beginning to exhibit some charm not always apparent when he was a coach.

See, some change is good.

I just wonder if they use a delay button when he talks.

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