For many years and this year is no different, RJ has traveled around the USA visiting many radio stations that carry this show. A vacation also is deserved, for he has had 55 weeks of a live talk show and has made a difference in the Philadelphia area about every topic imagineable and every professional guest from the radio and television world has appeared with him weekly. His "Disco USA Show" continues in its weekly time slot for all those programs have been precorded several months in advance. I hope RJ enjoys a great summer vacation away from a stale music and talk show market. And by the way, Kudos to Valerie Morrison for taking a vacation also for the summer, for RJ was her lead-in and she realizes this would be the best time to take a vacation also.
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Can't wait for RJ To Return
- Thread starter towernews
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You can't wait?
Funny, I can. I can wait forever. So can 99.5% of the Philadelphia market.
Funny, I can. I can wait forever. So can 99.5% of the Philadelphia market.
And I'm sure I can speak for everyone when I say that all of RJ's sponsors can't wait for his return, neither. ;D
A fast click on towernews' name: http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;u=36696 reveals that this poster is at an "RJ" address. So it is either the host in question or someone who works for him. For crying out loud, how lame is this?
oaktree said:
Well, I was going to say 99.9999, but decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. Always round down to be conservative.
Honey! They're on to us! pick up the Pocket Dish and run!Ladytalk said:
"Ah-Ha-Ha!"
"Look! It's the jokers and streamers, Honey!"
Incidentally, vacations are earned, not deserved. Brokered shows don't take "vacations." They are "canceled." (Usually for having no money.)
Now - name and verify 10 bona-fide paying "affiliates" of "Disco USA" now running.
I dare you. You'd surely want the publicity. I bet there are as many of those as there are "sponsors."
None. Zilch. Nada.
"Look! It's the jokers and streamers, Honey!"
Incidentally, vacations are earned, not deserved. Brokered shows don't take "vacations." They are "canceled." (Usually for having no money.)
Now - name and verify 10 bona-fide paying "affiliates" of "Disco USA" now running.
I dare you. You'd surely want the publicity. I bet there are as many of those as there are "sponsors."
None. Zilch. Nada.
He got kicked off a high school radio station. WOW he is a legend
Questions:
1. I have worked five or six day weeks (and some 7 day weeks) 8 or more hours a day, for many years in this business. For that, I received a paid 2-week vacation each year. How does one work for one hour, one day a week and pay to be on the air ... and get, after one year, a three MONTH (unpaid) vacation? (Ran out of money to pay for the brokered show or it was cancelled, maybe?)
2. Since when did "brokered" (paid programming shows) of one hour a day, one day a week get a "deserved" vacation? I thought that brokered shows had "back up" when the operation was shut down for whatever reason (and not publically.)
3. How is a single-market "brokered" program on "hiatus" for three months? Is there a guarantee that this program will return to it's original position on air? Is that part of some employment law in this country? Did I miss the memo?
4. Is a "brokered" show contracted on a week-to-week basis or is it an annual contract?
5. Is a "brokered" program paid up-front week-by-week?
6. What about sponsors? If there are no sponsors, I guess that means no show, right? (Unless the broker pays the fee, anyway.) So how is it a show "assured" that it will return?
Unless I fell off the studio chair yesterday, all of the answers might indicate "vaporware" in that none of these exist as "factual." Wrong?
This is a long-overdue finality, it would appear to me...but maybe radio is changing.
If these are true, I'd like that gig, for sure. You?
1. I have worked five or six day weeks (and some 7 day weeks) 8 or more hours a day, for many years in this business. For that, I received a paid 2-week vacation each year. How does one work for one hour, one day a week and pay to be on the air ... and get, after one year, a three MONTH (unpaid) vacation? (Ran out of money to pay for the brokered show or it was cancelled, maybe?)
2. Since when did "brokered" (paid programming shows) of one hour a day, one day a week get a "deserved" vacation? I thought that brokered shows had "back up" when the operation was shut down for whatever reason (and not publically.)
3. How is a single-market "brokered" program on "hiatus" for three months? Is there a guarantee that this program will return to it's original position on air? Is that part of some employment law in this country? Did I miss the memo?
4. Is a "brokered" show contracted on a week-to-week basis or is it an annual contract?
5. Is a "brokered" program paid up-front week-by-week?
6. What about sponsors? If there are no sponsors, I guess that means no show, right? (Unless the broker pays the fee, anyway.) So how is it a show "assured" that it will return?
Unless I fell off the studio chair yesterday, all of the answers might indicate "vaporware" in that none of these exist as "factual." Wrong?
This is a long-overdue finality, it would appear to me...but maybe radio is changing.
If these are true, I'd like that gig, for sure. You?
When I was doing a brokered show in Southington, Connecticut. I had a 14 week contract. (13 weeks 1 week off). I paid them weekly. It was written in my contract that I would miss one show for a vacation because it was all paid for before I signed my contract. I missed 3 other shows because of illness, that I did not have to pay for. They just ran the program that would've aired in my timeslot if I wasn't doing my show. I think I did a toal of 7 show. Missing 4 because of said illness and vacation. And having 2 shows taken away from me because my contract was torn up due to the stationing being LMA'd 24/7 by the people who were previously LMAing only 12/7. My contract clearly stated the station reserved the right to take back the time for any reason at any time.
For the last several weeks, the RJ Friday night show on WVLT was, for the most part, a mix of pre-recorded shows from before 2007, and songs with RJ liners. If you're lucky, you'd hear RJ on the telephone promoting a business. When do we get RJ back in the studio for the full two hours? Where's the "give us a ring on the ting-a-ling," where has that been? RJ is due for a return.
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