*A KNBR board op that works hard and wanted a raise, (he was turned down), makes for an interesting, future union issue with KGO and its, (and KNBR's) corporate owner, Cumulus.
Knibber, the all-sports AM behemoth, is non-union. KGO, which has been run into the ground with a radical, all-news, (sometimes) new format, is still a union operation. Its staff is moving out of its Embarcadero offices, (the sales staff is already moved out), and headed to KNBR and Cumulus-central at 55 Hawthorne.
A KGO vet tells me he doubts Cumulus would want to mess with the union, at least right away. "This is SF, not Atlanta, (hdqrs. of Cumulus)--I think if they try to force the union out, they'll be hell to pay." I agree.
But I also think that the KGO/Knibber and all other Cumulus properties, for that matter, make for an awkward scenario when housed in the same building, which is due to take place in April. Talk about issues!
*By the way, the board op at Knibber feels royally screwed, wanting a modest raise. He's not alone. The board op does the grunt work; lots of production, baby-sitting fragile egos, and working overtime for Giants, 49ers, and Warriors games. All for about $11 an hour. In SF no less. That'll get you a long way.
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It's really not a big deal having AFTRA and non-union stations in the same building. They do it at Clear Channel. KISQ is the sole union station. At Entercom KOIT is union but the other 2 stations aren't.
ReplyDeleteYou mean that kid Aamon? He's always doing something with his hands while haveing a phone to his ear.
ReplyDeleteI will guess he's not one of the young Nazi's who work there that loves the Dickeys and Bill and Lee.
If a board op wants a raise, you better be looking for a higher level job. This is your entre into the biz, not something you're going to be paid well for. (unless you're one of very few NABET folks left at KGO) You do it, get some experience and move on. It's called ambition. You certainly don't grouse about it to some media blogger...sheesh.
ReplyDeleteEntry level job? Really? In my day as a NABET board-op at KGO, I was well-paid with excellent benefits because not only did I act as producer and director for Dunbar and Wygant, I cut news tape, cued reporters, did production work, set-up remotes, fed the networks and as Rich rightly points out, massaged the EGOs.
Delete$11.00 per hour. Unfucking-believable. Sherman should burn down Atlanta again.
so free speech is only for certain , wealthy people?
Delete"This is SF, not Atlanta, (hdqrs. of Cumulus)--I think if they try to force the union out, they'll be hell to pay."
ReplyDeleteKGO staffers do not under-estimate the managment of Cumulus.
No friend of theirs but any company who will fire enmass the talk show lineup at KGO fears no one.
Better to have a paycheck than to show some bravado.
This is still a union town. Unions didn't get anywhere without bravado!
DeleteSadly, asshole corporations have about crushed unions, aka The People, to pieces.
I hope this story gets some media play
$11 AN HOUR???????
ReplyDeleteGood God.
$11 per hour????? That's it for a top-five market board op job??? I remember my first board op gig paid $4 per hour, but that was 30 years ago working for a Christian FM station where almost everything was run manually...
ReplyDeleteIt was something to hear Kreuger call Radnich "creepy" for another one of Radnich's entendres. Said it twice. The second time Radnich didnt smile much.
ReplyDeleteThat station sucks! If not being the flagship station of the Giants, no one would care about them at all!
ReplyDeleteDidn't see a minute of Holer on todays show. And Raddy was in his own cackling world for what I saw,then he said "I'm hopped up on these painkillers". Figures.
ReplyDeleteAs I posted somewhere else, people that stand out on the sidewalk and "spin" advertisement signs get paid the same as that board operator, and sometimes more. I saw a Craiglslist ad paying $12 an hour to do so. It's incredible, isn't it. And remember this?
ReplyDeleteU.S. Carriers Defend Pilot Pay After Buffalo Crash (Update1)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aJeU7Viw6UMU
"Senator Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, called the pay “modest” and said that at $20,000, a pilot would be close to earning “minimum wage, for any kind of job.”
I happened to find this too:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Airline-Pilots-for-minimum-wage/142176919153166?sk=info
"Airline Pilots for minimum wage"
"Airline pilots work for $4 an hour, its time to demand at least the minimum wage!
This page exists to inform the general public that their pilots may make as little as $4 per hour?
How can this be true you might ask?
Well pilots are only paid for time in motion. They have to spend up to 90 hours a week away from home to get paid for 20 of those hours at about $20 an hour. You can do the math.
Who are they getting to fly us around? INEXPERIENCED PILOTS!
As travel consumers we should demand better.
A good start would be to pay pilots Minimum Wage for all hours away from base."
Website
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RayMaswju1A
I don't know whether this is still true or not, but I do believe we have a serious wage conspiracy in this country.