Yeah, be frugal, little people, but bosses? You may splurge.
Mind you, KQED has been operating under massive budget shortfalls so this MGR BONUS comes at a particularly LOUSY time.
This news won't help relations between rank/file and management,
Yeah, be frugal, little people, but bosses? You may splurge.
Mind you, KQED has been operating under massive budget shortfalls so this MGR BONUS comes at a particularly LOUSY time.
This news won't help relations between rank/file and management,
LOISY indeed. Might want to call in the LOYAHS.
ReplyDeleteQuick! Donate to KQED so the bosses can live the extravagant lifestyle you would like to have!
ReplyDeleteThere's NEVER a good time for this
ReplyDeleteDan
Livermore
KQED, which has so much potential, yet so often shoots itself in the foot. One would think they are TRANS-CENTRAL. No gripes with TRANS folk, but do I really need to hear about them on the 8’s every hour?
ReplyDeleteI tried to listen and watch with an open mind, but their microscopic focus on minor issues, about which 99.9999% of us have little contact and concerns, seems misplaced.
I really miss Dr Krasny.
Now do KRON the other day blathering on and on and on and on about the Stud Bar in SF reopening.
Delete@11:50. Come on man! There's no such as "trans". It's called mental illness. Damn it Gumby! Get it right!
DeleteKQED... NPR... BART... all bloated organizations that are really a Ponzi scheme that pays those at the managerial levels an exorbitant amount of money while begging viewers to "send in your donation to keep the programs you want to see on the air." What a joke! Nepotism and hiring family members is the norm especially at BART. That has been their deep dark dirty secret and now that they got exposed during the pandemic and no one rides "the Bart" they beg for Gavin and Uncle Joe & the Feds to bail them out. This needs to stop!
ReplyDeleteBonuses are regular part of management rewards. Let say a station made $ 10 million in profit with live local host all day long and then syndicated with no local host, maybe drive time only, and made $ 15 million in profit. As an executive I'd expect a big (six figures) bonus. Business isn't a charity.
ReplyDeleteThat way of doing radio might be good for management salaries and bonuses, but it makes for lousy radio. SF used to have such great radio stations. Now the commercial stations are a wasteland of corporate chain cookie cutter crap. They’ve lost me as a listener. Then there is KQED, both TV and radio, which I for years listened to and watched, almost addictively, and occasionally donated to. Even did volunteer work for them once or twice. Now you couldn’t pay me to listen to the radio station, and I watch very little of the television station. Paralyzed with leftist, woke politics, identity politics, political correctness. Boring, preachy, smug, self righteous, and arrogant. Just awful. Even many of the British import dramas are infected by the same intellectual virus. Unwatchable.
Delete1:59PM are you saying a radio station using live hosts in one day can generate $10M in profit after hosts’ salaries and station expenses, fixed and variable attributable to the revenue to generate such profit? How much revenue does it take to generate $10M in profit in the radio business (gross margin)? Syndication would have less costs but how can it generate an extra $15 million in profit over the time such shows are aired again or sold to other stations. What radio station around here makes that kind of money? They are all bleeding red, and looking to cut highly paid “talent”.
DeleteBusiness is a charity when its a 501(c) non profit subsidized by taxpayers and largely funded through grants and donations.
DeleteLet's say a station is a non-profit and therefore has no profit, and is begging for alms instead of your profit pretense.
DeleteBonus = normal
ReplyDeleteHEY! I want to return my $35 Foreigner live DVD now!
ReplyDeleteLeslie Sbrocco gets a new hairdo, makeup and wardrobe. What's not to ike?
ReplyDeleteKQED is always having pledge breaks. As a non-profit, they should have low overhead, right? Paying high salaries to executives while worker bees are underpaid is not what pledge breaks are for, right? I would expect PBS programs, but they rely too much on English TV programs. They are not transparent.
ReplyDeleteAs with many charities, KQED suffered from an edifice complex: their new $100 million building. That took a lot of begging.
ReplyDeleteso this is where all the relics of alex jones show fans come and spend their time now. glad you all have something to do these days.
ReplyDeleteNow that it is Fall pledge season, KQED repeats over and over that news coverage costs money, and there us a $2.5 million shortfall. They don't mention these six-figure bonuses. In the for-profit sector, bonuses only cone when profits are good.
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