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Radio Salaries
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Hehe... I ran into someone who works in local radio recently and during a long conversation mentioned how I worked in radio for 8 years when I was younger. At the end of our discussion he said "If you ever want to get back into the business, give me a call."
I looked over at his compact car, remembered how he mentioned that he still lives at home with his mother.
Then I glanced at my luxury car, pictured my beautiful wife and baby starving and said "Nah..that's quite alright."
I looked over at his compact car, remembered how he mentioned that he still lives at home with his mother.
Then I glanced at my luxury car, pictured my beautiful wife and baby starving and said "Nah..that's quite alright."
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radioatlantis
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Forget salaries.
Even if you are one of the few who gets paid well, try making the money for any length of time. Radio is not the most secure business in the world and is downright fickle.
Traditionally, Clear Channel has it's Christmas slaughter and fires hundreds so they can look good for their bottom line. Maybe with their sale, some of that will change but I wouldn't count on it because every giant out there is a CC clone to more or lesser degrees.
My advice --- if you are addicted to radio, get help.
If you like radio because it beats working for the telephone company and you can have a lot more fun, build your Internet radio station and get it out of your system
Radio, has a general regard for air people as disposable commodities.
It wasn't always that way.
Even if you are one of the few who gets paid well, try making the money for any length of time. Radio is not the most secure business in the world and is downright fickle.
Traditionally, Clear Channel has it's Christmas slaughter and fires hundreds so they can look good for their bottom line. Maybe with their sale, some of that will change but I wouldn't count on it because every giant out there is a CC clone to more or lesser degrees.
My advice --- if you are addicted to radio, get help.
If you like radio because it beats working for the telephone company and you can have a lot more fun, build your Internet radio station and get it out of your system
Radio, has a general regard for air people as disposable commodities.
It wasn't always that way.
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preferprivacy
Guest
It's not all gloom and doom!
There are many great radio stations that are propsering, and most are doing it the old-fashioned way - having talented people doing great radio.
It used to be the norm - and it still wins everywhere it's tried!
The financiers and speculators are running out of this business as fast as they can (except at CC, they are just starting down a long dark road of accountant-driven cuts that will culminate in three or four years in them selling off the remains, in pieces, to the highest bidders - ever see the movie Wall Street?).
In two or three years, broadcasters will again control the industry.
We will probably never be a "hot" growth industry again - which drove the consolidation frenzy and that largely proved a far trickier business model than the stock sellers had predicted - with some exceptions.
There are many great radio stations that are propsering, and most are doing it the old-fashioned way - having talented people doing great radio.
It used to be the norm - and it still wins everywhere it's tried!
The financiers and speculators are running out of this business as fast as they can (except at CC, they are just starting down a long dark road of accountant-driven cuts that will culminate in three or four years in them selling off the remains, in pieces, to the highest bidders - ever see the movie Wall Street?).
In two or three years, broadcasters will again control the industry.
We will probably never be a "hot" growth industry again - which drove the consolidation frenzy and that largely proved a far trickier business model than the stock sellers had predicted - with some exceptions.
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whippingboy1
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radioatlantis said:
To a certain extent you are right, but not all companies are that way. It all depends on what part of the business you are in. I worked both on air and engineering, and loved both. When a syndicated show replaced the show that I was on I focused my energy strictly on engineering.
Video didn't kill the radio star, big business did.
Part-time-9-10 and hour for 29 hours
fulltime producer-21-25k per year but it varies (especially if your a monster of philer)
hosts-30k- and up
fulltime producer-21-25k per year but it varies (especially if your a monster of philer)
hosts-30k- and up
Salaries and history...such as they are:
http://www.rtnda.org/pages/media_items/about-salary-data489.php
http://www.rtnda.org/pages/media_items/about-salary-data489.php
yes.
i would like some estimated numbers.
for example: what would be the yearly pay
for the morning drive-time host/dj/whatever
in a 1M market with a book of around 7.0?
how about the the PD for that same mythical station?
the engineer or producer for same?
in rapidly falling US Dollars, please.
(if the Fed cuts the rate further, they will
have to pay me to take out a loan. don't
laugh. Japan went to 0.0%)
i would like some estimated numbers.
for example: what would be the yearly pay
for the morning drive-time host/dj/whatever
in a 1M market with a book of around 7.0?
how about the the PD for that same mythical station?
the engineer or producer for same?
in rapidly falling US Dollars, please.
(if the Fed cuts the rate further, they will
have to pay me to take out a loan. don't
laugh. Japan went to 0.0%)
Once had a student serving an internship with a Philadelphia FM station. He had been fed a dog-and-pony show by some unknowing professors who had yet to work a day in the business, and who blabbed incessantly about the high pay and star status of people in radio. He was literally shocked to learn that the PM drive jock had a wife and three kids and left immediately after gettng off the air for his bartending job at a local "establishment."
The student learned more from the internship than he paid in tuition. It took another ten years of station people complaining to the dean about whoever it was on the faculty who fed such a line to the students. I was literally fired fior telling them the truth. Then the administration cleaned house and began anew with more in-the-know broadcast professors.
So much for star status and high pay.
The student learned more from the internship than he paid in tuition. It took another ten years of station people complaining to the dean about whoever it was on the faculty who fed such a line to the students. I was literally fired fior telling them the truth. Then the administration cleaned house and began anew with more in-the-know broadcast professors.
So much for star status and high pay.
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van hespen
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The Boston (multipage) thread had some interesting posts regarding salaries. You'll have to scroll through several non-interesting posts, too, however. It's worth the read.
(Radio-Info BOARDS>TOP 20 MARKETS>Boston>On Air Salaries: Who knows what...?)
http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,90024.0.html
You can also use the search function for "salaries" on any forum front page ie: New York, LA, etc.
Sounds like your sizing up potential salary ranges for some of the on-air opportunities opening up here in Orlando. Good luck! Let us know what you think this market will bear...and what you end up getting if ya land the gig!
(Radio-Info BOARDS>TOP 20 MARKETS>Boston>On Air Salaries: Who knows what...?)
http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,90024.0.html
You can also use the search function for "salaries" on any forum front page ie: New York, LA, etc.
Sounds like your sizing up potential salary ranges for some of the on-air opportunities opening up here in Orlando. Good luck! Let us know what you think this market will bear...and what you end up getting if ya land the gig!
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