As you’d expect, OC’s tech slump is making its way to the service sector. Rajiv Vyas hears that big accounting firms are reviewing their budgets, with an eye toward staff cuts. Vyas has been told that accounting seniors at UCLA and Cal State Fullerton have had job offers withdrawn, or have been told by the firms to take vacations after they graduate this fall and to check back in January By the way, Vyas, who broke last week’s story on broker Richard Gadbois’ plan to leave Merrill Lynch to start an investment fund with Wall Street stars Steve Holzman and Kenneth Langone, says he doesn’t mind chatting with readers, but he asks that job seekers send their resumes straight to Gadbois KOCE prez Mel Rogers says he hates to see OC lose a media voice, but excuse him for having mixed feelings about Adelphia’s plans to jettison its OCN cable news channel. OCN’s scheduled Sept. 7 closing will leave Rogers’ PBS outlet in Huntington Beach (which gives a little weekly air time to EE RR) as the only TV station with regular daily coverage of the county. Rogers thinks OCN’s demise could be a boost to KOCE’s already growing viewership and pledge drives. He also hopes it will kick-start KOCE’s capital campaign, aimed at raising $8.5 million for a digital conversion; the drive has stalled at $3 million because of the recent tech-stock bust. “Capital is what we most need in order to expand the ‘Real Orange’ infrastructure to a level where we can do more live, local, issue-oriented, Orange County news,” Rogers says ..
…..They’re married! Anaheim Mayor Tom Daly and public affairs consultant and Chapman law school student Debra Trabattoni They’re engaged! PR pro Judith Brower and retail developer Chuck Fancher Appearances through October at the Nixon Library: House Speaker Dennis Hastert (this Thursday), Rush Limbaugh’s brother David, Bill O’Reilly, the Washington Times’ Bill Sammon and a couple of guys who want to be California’s next governor, Bill Jones and Bill Simon. Call (714) 993-5075 Looking for the top 2%: Mensa will conduct an admissions test Aug. 18 in Orange. Call (949) 770-4890 The Insider has been asked to thank Chris Rice and other staff of Fish Radio 95.9 for their hospitality to The Ladies of the OCBJ at the recent Carman and Zoegirl concert at the OC Fair Ex-OC restaurateur Sid Soffer sent EE RR an e-mail defending Costa Mesa Councilman Chris Steel against election-fraud allegations and contesting his own 6-year-old building-code convictions. “I shall return sooner than some might think,” said Sofer, signing off as “Fugitive Without His Car in Vegas.”
