Hey video-if you love radio, or whatever your career is, you do what you have to do to make it work. The shift is VT'd and it's money for him. He also does other part-time there. You make yourself available to help when needed so when changes are made, they think of you. Again, he's from the area and his whole family lives there. He's been offered things in other markets, but it means trying to sell your house in a sub-par economy. He's also married and his wife would have to find a job in another market also. It sometimes means making decisions that are tough. When you have others to think about, the decisions get harder.
He's got a name in the market and hopes that means something when changes are made. Hopefully, not just for him but for the station, changes will be made. When I visited CT. last year, DRC-FM was a HORRIBLE sounding station. Thank God they brought back Jerry Kristafer for mornings. Seville sounded blah. The processing was terrible, the station voice was terrible, there was no fun in that station whatsoever and Oldies should be fun. (I don't care what they call it, it's an Oldies station) Their jocks would run phone bits just for the sake of running a phone bit. No editing. It sounded like a bunch of broadcast graduates doing whatever they wanted to do. That's why they need Floyd and anyone else with talent to get the station back to where it used to be.
I hope you someday have to face a similar decision and find out how hard it is. Then you may not be so ready to take uninformed pot-shots at people. Try getting the full story. Maybe if you knew Floyd, you might find what everyone else who knows him has found...he's truly a nice guy and the success he's had over the years never went to his head.
This guy's career is finished!!