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Originally Posted by JD
But why is that? Wouldn't almost every member of CP want to talk about sports and have your own professional soapbox? If it's impossible to find, it's probably because the station isn't willing to pay for it. There have got to be thousands of people out there looking for this kind of opportunity. Maybe they're too picky, looking for folks with some sort of specific college education?
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Isn't the running joke on cp that the average income is 150k? Unless your average cp poster took a 120k hair cut, they aren't working in radio.
Radio in general is struggling in large part due to the rise of podcasts. Where people can listen to funny, interesting, uncensored content on demand, for free. Whereas in radio, boomer gets suspended because he made a joke.
It's a creatively bankrupt, excessively conservative game that anyone with any ambition, talent, or zest for life avoids like a wasteland. Now this could be fixed if the program directors took any risk whatsoever, but Kelly Kirsch didnt get where he is thanks to visionary thinking.
Take for example Overtime. What was, with Kerr, a staple of my post game ritual, has become an entirely missable misuse of everyone's time. The solution is actually pretty simple. The show is on no earlier than 11pm at night. You're dealing with a bunch of drunks, and one good hockey call every four or five callers. So does it make sense to have Steinberg treat everyone with respect and as intellectual equals, or should he or whoever else hosts the show screw with those callers, mock them, and make a game of it? Because one formula gets you Loveline with Adam Carolla and Dr Drew and the other is something nobody cares about and wouldn't miss if it was gone.