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I am acquainted with someone that is looking for an on air shift in New England and NY. Currently this person (no, not me) is working for a Top 40 station in a Northeast market. This person is willing to relocate for the right opening and will work for a small company or a Mom and Pop station.

Anything out there right now? Seems kind of slow what with all the job cuts around the country.
 
William C. Walker said:
Seems kind of slow what with all the job cuts around the country.
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From what I've read there are even some public stations cutting back staff, so the job market looks pretty tight right now.

Good luck to your friend. I hope he/she finds something.
 
Mark: Thanks for voicing in. Citadel has a company wide hiring freeze right now and it appears as though this is a nationwide trend.
 
Tell him not to do what I once did and take any bad gig you can get just because its' professional radio. Not to be cynical, but to be a realist - while I wish your friend the best of luck, if he can't get a good paying gig, he should consider another profession. Many of us here on this board, myself included, have done just that. I found radio was fun, but self respect was more important.
 
I hear where you are coming from Cee. He already has an on air gig but is looking for another one.
 
Most pubradio job openings are posted at Current's website: www.current.org/jobs You can also search the NPR job listings.

Colleges mostly post to HigherEdJobs.com - search on the keyword "radio" - http://www.higheredjobs.com/search/advanced_action.cfm?keyword=radio&Go.x=0&Go.y=0 Historically, while Boston has a lot of college radio, the colleges are notoriously bad about refusing to hire professionals to help run the stations.

I know this sounds cynical, but if your friend has a job, he is already waaaay ahead of most of us in the biz. It's an ugly time in radio these days. As Mark said, even pubradio outlets are really feeling the pinch. Relocation is probably a radioactive word; much of the northeast is very expensive to live in and no station manager wants to even think about providing relocation assistance (not that many of them would even in the best of times).
 
William C. Walker said:
Mark: Thanks for voicing in. Citadel has a company wide hiring freeze right now and it appears as though this is a nationwide trend.
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So many companies, so many hiring freezes.

Actually, the notion of any hiring freeze in this business is ridiculous.

This business continues to be geared towards getting numbers and selling ad time, and as long as that is the case, programming will continue to be adjusted. And as long as programming dust never settles, and it doesn't, there will always be opportunities coming up.

Fewer jobs? Sure. Hiring freeze? Impossible.
 
One wonders if Kiss might not be looking for somebody. They recently lost a PM Drive guy.
 
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