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Long time Sports 56 WHBQ Host Peter Edmiston announces he’s no longer at the station

SomeRadioGuy said:
Pretty sure most of the hosts on WHBQ pay for their time.
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Peter Edmiston, Eli Savoie, and Greg Gaston have all been at the station for 2 decades. I think they are (were) Flinn employees. They aren’t going out and getting their own commercials; they definitely have sales staff doing that.

Dave Woloshin definitely has the same thing whatever the late George Lapides has were he gets his own sponsors and may be an independent contractor but I don’t think it’s a pure “holler for a dollar” situation.

John “The Rainman” Rainey straight buys his time. I don’t think there are any Flinn spots during his show.

I don’t know about the newer folks on the station, like John Hardin. I’d suspect Stats is an employee. He has spots, but I don’t know he has enough to think he is buying his time.

Old personalities like Rob Fischer and Eric Hasseltine, I’m sure they were Flinn employees.
 
NorthMemphis said:
Peter Edmiston, Eli Savoie, and Greg Gaston have all been at the station for 2 decades. I think they are (were) Flinn employees. They aren’t going out and getting their own commercials; they definitely have sales staff doing that.

Dave Woloshin definitely has the same thing whatever the late George Lapides has were he gets his own sponsors and may be an independent contractor but I don’t think it’s a pure “holler for a dollar” situation.

John “The Rainman” Rainey straight buys his time. I don’t think there are any Flinn spots during his show.

I don’t know about the newer folks on the station, like John Hardin. I’d suspect Stats is an employee. He has spots, but I don’t know he has enough to think he is buying his time.

Old personalities like Rob Fischer and Eric Hasseltine, I’m sure they were Flinn employees.
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I used to work for Flinn in another market and I wish i remember who told me.. but someone who would seem to know told me alot of the hosts were paying for their time...... but i dont remember who told me, it might've even been another flinn employee
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
I used to work for Flinn in another market and I wish i remember who told me.. but someone who would seem to know told me alot of the hosts were paying for their time...... but i dont remember who told me, it might've even been another flinn employee
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They definitely sell some time, most notably John Rainey.

Once upon a time, Chris Vernon was a young Sports 56 employee and got fired. He got some sponsors behind him and bought time in the evenings and eventually the show was moved to the mornings (I don’t know if he became an employee). After a couple years, when 730AM flipped to Sports talk, they brought him over. Sports 56 put sportswriter Ron Tillery and Peter Edmiston together for a morning show. Tillery was an employee and couldn’t do commercials as a writer at the Memphis Commercial Appeal. If Tillery wasn’t buying time, I can’t see how his co-host Peter Edmiston was buying time.
 
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