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Movin'on up outta the market

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fullabaloney

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Ever notice no one ever leaves Providence for a better market or gig lately? People leave either because they're canned or quit without jobs to go to but you just don't seem to see anyone leaving for something better. Is it the big fish/small pond mentality? Is it the RI mentality of not wanting to work more than a few miles from where you live? Is it the age of so many radio people coupled with no desire to uproot themselves at their stages of the game? Is it the really established personalities making salaries they couldn't make elsewhere? Dunno but wondering.
 
reelyreal said:
It's the "there aren't any jobs" thing.

Seriously, there aren't any jobs.
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This is the sad legacy of The Telecommunications Act of 1996. After all, how many music stations are being run these days by computers stashed away in small utility rooms?

So much for consolidation.
 
I put less blame on Telecom '96 and more on the fact that there are more stations and more listening and advertising options today than there were 10, 20, and 30 years ago. More stations fighting over a smaller slice of the pie. Sure there'd be a little more money to play with if some of the larger companies didn't have the massive debt loads, but you don't see smaller companies like Hall, Connoisseur, or Qantum out there hiring people, either.

There's also the fact that people are living longer, and with the economy the way it is, people are working longer, too. That isn't just a radio problem, that's an "America" problem. It's kind of hard for us 20-somethings and 30-somethings to move up when the late-sixty-somethings and seventy-somethings aren't retiring.

...Shouldn't guys like Matty be grabbing the early bird special down in Boca by now?
 
Mattys got kids in school, ex wives, real estate, etc. He'll pull that mil in every year he can, probably to leave a nice sum behind as well....
 
Weren't Paul & Al offered mornings on a Boston station (WZLX?) several years ago? I think it was around when Karlson & McKenzie took over mornings there.

Jacko
 
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