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Here are the salarys at WPRO!!!

I've got a hunch that the thread was started by someone in the know on the trail. Posting such info could be perceived as unprofessional....... but take it as a warning to be careful who you piss off. Your friends at work could turn out to be your enemies once they get home. It doesn't surprise me really. The world isn't all that nice of a place. I can't even trust some of my best friends. How sad is that? But it's true!

Oh well..... as wrong as it may seem to some people, I find such discussions entertaining. The public knows the salaries of some of the biggest celebrities in Hollywood. Even the Presidents salary is common knowledge. So what? Big deal. You know how much money someone makes (or) they know how much you make. Either way.....Is it really going to change the course of your day?
 
You have to figure tongues wag in the building when it comes to a select few who are grossly overpaid. That's everybody mentioned here except for Matt Allen.
 
This Matt Allen indignity must...SOMEHOW...be Dave Barber's fault.

But seriously...

This is-and-isn't a Farid-level issue.

"Is:" @ $1.67 a share, CDL is in a pinch.
And how about that CC memo leaked to the Wall Street Journal.
CC had already cut-to-the-bone, then sucked-out-the-marrow.
Now, licking their chops over THEIR payday, the Mays guys memo GM's: "Cut more."
THEN, when the Gordon Gekko-look-alikes will take over, you think there won't be MORE cuts?

"Isn't:" This is a discussion about Farid's PROVIDENCE headache.
Day-after-tomorrow, Sean Hannity's deal blows up.
That's an EIGHT FIGURE headache.

Which, inevitably, will make this "isn't" an "is."
They'll have to pay for keeping-Sean SOMEHOW.
 
Wow...that much for Buddy? Wonder if anyone else in PVD comes close behind the mic at that price.

OK, and big kudos to Holland Cooke for the bringing back the infamous PRO one liner. Found in times past that using it at the end of a sentence catches people off guard or gets a chuckle, or I'd utter those words deep in rem sleep.

Repetition is the mother of learning...use only as directed.
 
What this spotlight does reveal, is that Buddy and Yorke who both hate DePetro must be loving the fact that they make double, and triple what he makes. Buddy has been quoted to say that he is happy be to be at the same station as DePetro, seeing he has to wake up at 4 in the morning to make half the salary.
 
Seekonk Sally said:
What this spotlight does reveal, is that Buddy and Yorke who both hate DePetro must be loving the fact that they make double, and triple what he makes. Buddy has been quoted to say that he is happy be to be at the same station as DePetro, seeing he has to wake up at 4 in the morning to make half the salary.
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I've never before seen such a better example of a guy who should have just stayed where he was. HJJ was the place for him and he even had the cable TV simulcast to go along with the radio show. That was nice. He should have just done that for longer. But I don't really blame him for making the moves that he did. He had no way of knowing that Boston would blow up in his face. He took the risk and it just didn't work out. But now it seems like he makes less and less money with every job. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?

WPRO saw that John was in a desperate situation when they hired him....... and in my eyes they pretty much took advantage of him. They knew he needed a job and that he needed one fast. They knew that he would accept a low ball amount just to get back on the air. So that is exactly what happened. After hiring Buddy,The station really has no defense anymore when it comes to paying air talent a low salary. They've already demonstrated that they can come up with the money if they really want to.
 
I've never before seen such a better example of a guy who should have just stayed where he was. HJJ was the place for him and he even had the cable TV simulcast to go along with the radio show. That was nice. He should have just done that for longer. But I don't really blame him for making the moves that he did. He had no way of knowing that Boston would blow up in his face. He took the risk and it just didn't work out. But now it seems like he makes less and less money with every job. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?

WPRO saw that John was in a desperate situation when they hired him....... and in my eyes they pretty much took advantage of him. They knew he needed a job and that he needed one fast. They knew that he would accept a low ball amount just to get back on the air. So that is exactly what happened. After hiring Buddy,The station really has no defense anymore when it comes to paying air talent a low salary. They've already demonstrated that they can come up with the money if they really want to.



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Ask a board opp or producer at Wpro what they make,, next to nothing. You're right about John Depetro too.
John should have a meeting with Jim Corwin , go back to Whjj and give R.I. some good talk again!
 
Buddy is worth EVERY penny! The station management has gone to selling PREMIUM live read commercials. For example yesterday they ran a 1:32 Twin River spot. Today a 2:14 903 Residences. You think that doesn't raise revenue? This is great move. Who say's radio spots have to be :60's?
 
JointChinese said:
Buddy is worth EVERY penny! The station management has gone to selling PREMIUM live read commercials. For example yesterday they ran a 1:32 Twin River spot. Today a 2:14 903 Residences. You think that doesn't raise revenue? This is great move. Who say's radio spots have to be :60's?
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The station better be selling Live Spots. They need that revenue to pay Buddy's salary. But think about it for second. What's a better situation. A free show off the satellite that pulls in bigger ratings (or) a lower rated show where the sales department needs to work their ass off to keep their heads above water? WPRO may have live spots now... but are they ahead of the game (or) is all that money just being used to pay overpriced talent? You could hire 7 Matt Allens for less Money than One Buddy. That's insane! Unless Buddy is pulling in seven times the ratings Matt is than it makes no sense to pay Buddy so much. Name one other example anywhere in the country where a local midday guy makes more than three times the salary of the morning guy! It's crazy. It's the business plan of lunatics!
 
John did so well at WHJJ cause he came in around the time of Buddy's big problems and John's shows were all built around making jokes about it.
He does get less at WPRO but he has lots of help in the mng. By that I mean with all the morning reports and games, plus Tara, he doesn't bear the whole responsibility (it seems to me).
Buddy has Ron to kick around and give him loads of help and info so he doesn't bear the whole responsibility either.
Ron should be making more because he just goes from time slot to time slot and does a good job wherever he goes.
Dan and Matt have to be on their toes for the whole show by
themselves. Matt is new as a Host, but by next year he'll be doing much better.
Dan does think a lot of himself (although I hear that's just his radio personality). But who has more conceit than John who's always promoting himself.
Just my opinions.
 
Let's clear up a misconception....Rush is NOT a free show off the satellite and actually may be costing Clear Channel & Hjj and hurting the bottom line that they could be reaping (as the cross daypart commercials they need to be running is less inventory avail for local ads). Seeing as they are 90% off the bird, that is a lot of ads they need to be placing (some I think are dumping over on Coast and I dont hear HJY or B101 enough to hear if they are showing up there as well); but Coast has a LARGE amount of nationally bought spots which I assume are barters for what is on HJJ
 
Rush $$$

KNOW that WHJJ is paying cash for Rush.
Just one-of-many charges CC imposes on owned stations for owned stuff.

And they're about to pay MORE for Sean Hannity...unless his new causes Citadel to move him elsewhere in the market...
 
Matt Allen , that clean kid . Paid 40,000. Vinny ( Spanky) Cianci ,A RACKETEER, A CONVICTED FELON, an EX CON. paid 300,000.

At WPRO crime not only pays it's well respected. Hayes and Giamarco = radio pimps.
 
lawman360 said:
Matt Allen , that clean kid . Paid 40,000. Vinny ( Spanky) Cianci ,A RACKETEER, A CONVICTED FELON, an EX CON. paid 300,000.

At WPRO crime not only pays it's well respected. Hayes and Giamarco = radio pimps.
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In show business it's not about what you know. It's about what you do to get noticed. The Entertainment business pays for popularity. Even if you gained much of that popularity by breaking the law. Yes... it's not fair. I know.
 
lawman360 said:
Matt Allen , that clean kid . Paid 40,000. Vinny ( Spanky) Cianci ,A RACKETEER, A CONVICTED FELON, an EX CON. paid 300,000.

At WPRO crime not only pays it's well respected. Hayes and Giamarco = radio pimps.
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Yawn...tired act.
 
wknd 92,, "Yawn .. tired act." I noticed you backed off insulting Skynet , you don't think I have his info on you wise guy? Your comment 'yawn'.. Do you have ANY regard for victims of crime sir? Deleo, city workers , people who wanted to apply for Police and Fire jobs and had to pay to get on? Contractors who wore 'wires' to prove this was going on? Do you understand what Mayor Cianci put Providence through??!!
Spanky getting a salary of 300,000 or more is DISPICIBLE. Everybody at that station bowing to him is just as bad.. 300,000 to a criminal just out of prison that has a line of victims clear out the door. Yeah, yawn..
 
Yawn...tired act.

Speaking of tired act, Buddy is on his daily tirade about Ciciline. This guy might not be the best Mayor in the world, but is he the ONLY Mayor in the state that made decisions about what to do with school closings? No matter what he would have decided to do, The King would find reason to single him out. It gets old. When he is on, he is definitely the best talk host in the market. Why does he have to be all vendetta radio against Ciciline and Esserman? Because they dare not bow to him?
 
Here's where TECHNIQUE is the key.

S DANMAN said:
Buddy is on his daily tirade about Ciciline.
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USEFUL EXAMPLE of the-value-of-technique.
I've not heard the show referenced.

But topics like this CAN reconcile two immutable, and seemingly divergent, realities:

1. Providence is "somewhere else" to most diarykeepers.
"That's THEIR problem," says the-little-voice-in-the-head-of the MANY Bristol Co. MA diarykeepers, "swing voters" in the Providence MSA.

2. NOTHING -- repeat, NOTHING -- trumps a parent's concern.
So, with stories like this, the trick it to make-it-relatable TO PARENTS EVERYWHERE, rather than doing inside-baseball about ONE City Hall.

This topic is easier to make-relatable than, for instance, the-decline-and-fall-of then-Mayor Marion Barry, when I was at WTOP/Washington in the late 80s. People choose to live in Fairfax Co VA and Montgomery Co MD, because, among-other-reasons, they're not-in-DC. Similarly, some folks prefer Attleboro to Providence. Not EXCLUSIVELY because of government process or its consequence. But, for-WHATEVER-reason, what-happens-somewhere-else is "THEIR problem," unless it's made relatable.

During the Barry downfall, I ended up hiring someone who had been working at a station in Leesburg VA.
During the interview, I asked her "how are you playing Barry there?"
"That's national," she said.
RIGHT ANSWER.

And, obviously, it's important to avoid topic "hobby horses."
Not just to avoid listeners thinking "He's talking about THAT again?" (which hosts DO want to avoid)
But also because Arbitron's unaided recall methodology is A MEMORY TEST.
If you talk about the same thing every day, diarykeepers won't remember all the days listened.

And listeners make QUICK decisions about staying-or-going, as we see in the dramatic audience drop-off Rush gets at-the-beginning-of-every hour (http://www.colemaninsights.com/ppmrush.htm).

Aloha from Block Island
HC
www.HollandCooke.com
 
lawman360 said:
wknd 92,, "Yawn .. tired act." I noticed you backed off insulting Skynet , you don't think I have his info on you wise guy? Your comment 'yawn'.. Do you have ANY regard for victims of crime sir? Deleo, city workers , people who wanted to apply for Police and Fire jobs and had to pay to get on? Contractors who wore 'wires' to prove this was going on? Do you understand what Mayor Cianci put Providence through??!!
Spanky getting a salary of 300,000 or more is DISPICIBLE. Everybody at that station bowing to him is just as bad.. 300,000 to a criminal just out of prison that has a line of victims clear out the door. Yeah, yawn..
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Mutually agreed upon between Skynet & myself, not worth either of us exerting silly energy on it.
I don't care what info you have on me...if you have info on me, then you know where to come find me and we can talk about it. Do not paint Mr. Freitas as a choir boy...if you are in law enforcement as you wish us to believe, you know the list on him goes deep as well.
The current climate of Providence is much the same as when Buddy was in charge (police test scandals, police misconduct, embezzlement at the Parks Dept), so begs the question...was it really just Buddy? Also, please try to work in a spellcheck every once in a while...the word you were grasping for is despicable
 
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