First CEO Jeff Smulyan gives $250-$1,000 bonuses to all Emmis employees and now another radio company comes forward and is offering to hire more than 10 employees who were fired just this week.

How the company doing the firing is reportedly scurrying to get their fired employees to sign non-competes to keep them from taking these lifeline jobs.  How sincere is this unprecedented move to hire so many fired competing workers.   Do they get their same jobs at the new company?  Do they get the same pay?  All the details on the deal.  How the Anti-Dickey is actually calling each employee to extend the offer.  This story is going to make you feel good and be proud.

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Emmis awarded bonuses to every full and part-time employee after they lowered they debt by $80 million by selling a Los Angeles FM station.  But if you don’t work for Emmis or one of the 5 good radio employers, here’s how you can protect yourself, your career and your family without a kind owner.

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The departure of Tom Owens from Clear Channel research and programming has great significance to anyone who wants to see the future of Clear Channel and the future of radio.

How many original Jacor execs and top 50 market managers are left in the brain drain that evolved over the past ten years.  I’ll name them.  With Owens out of the way, the new Clear Channel programming plan can be implemented and many more local programming jobs can now be eliminated.  The latest estimate of layoffs I am hearing and when.  What Clear Channel will look and sound like within 6 months.  The questionable practices you’ll likely see.  And what Clear Channel is hot to target next in the name of efficiency.  Be the first to imagine Platform Radio.

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Today I’m going to answer the question I’ve been hearing a lot lately – how can I work for the jerks that are ruining the radio business. 

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And if you think all the pain and suffering of working for people who don’t trust you and don’t care about you is for naught, help has arrived.

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1.  The line you should memorize and say in the car on the way to work every day that will fundamentally change your attitude about working for incompetents.

2.  How would Dale Carnegie tell you to deal with, say, Lew Dickey, John Hogan or their minions?  I’ll tell you.

3.  An outstanding mantra that when repeated several times a day can make a bad situation better – maybe even more tolerable.  Doubt me?  Try it for a week and see.

4.  The most important thing to do when corporate tries to shut off your brain and make you do stupid things (like being ordered to play the same song on the top of each hour or force you to sell to local prospects they identify from thousands of miles away). 

5.  How to deal with being fired or demoted.  This is more than worth the 27 cents you’ll pay for today’s piece.  And I’ll bet you’ll send me an email to thank me for sharing it. 

6.  How to balance your need to support your family with the growing inability to handle the stress of working for jerks.

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Wait until you see the latest report card on AM formats moving to FM.

Owners have been switching and comboing AM formats at a record pace over the last year and now we can draw some conclusions.

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1.  Which one format does fairly well when it combos an AM on an FM. 

2.  Which format strikes out almost every time when its AM version is also simulcast on FM.

3.  When to forget switching to FM – believe it or not these formats just do better on AM.

4.  How could KGO, San Francisco be saved.

5.  Will the AM to FM trend continue.

The answers start here.

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Layoffs and cutbacks are not just a Cumulus or Clear Channel thing anymore.

Radio is hurting so when the going gets tough radio companies start firing again.

Except this time – and after Labor Day – even the better companies are feeling the pressure to cut and layoff. 

I’ve had pretty good instincts about radio layoffs these past couple of years so here is my current rundown of what I think is in store for 7 top radio groups plus independents.

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1.  If you work for these two radio groups, you’re likely very safe through the New Year.

2.  You’re on the endangered list if you work for several others I’ll identify – beware!

3.  There is a new kind of “hamburger helper” in the pipeline that will allow three major groups to slash personnel costs and I’m not talking about voice tracking here.  More evil.

4.  How long before ad sales perk up and radio companies can start making money again.

5.  An honest yes or no on employee layoffs and cutbacks for these radio groups by year’s end:  Entercom, CBS, Clear Channel, Cox, Saga, Townsquare, Cumulus and the outlook for mid to small independents.

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If you’ve been waiting for two of the most evil radio operators to bash each others brains in, you’re in luck.

It’s happening now.

It’s WAR not WOR!

Clear Channel bought WOR, New York to protect its syndicated talk programming that Cumulus is carrying on WABC (and elsewhere) and looking to drop and compete against.  And the Evil Empire is on the warpath.

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1. How radio companies are getting increasingly nasty with talent – not the personalities they are firing, the ones they want to keep!

2. The employment outlook six months to a year out – a pretty accurate read on opportunities and challenges to working in the radio industry.

3.  What’s the most effective tactic being successfully used by radio groups – even some good ones – to bully departing employees into signing questionably legal non-competes.

4.  The best way to initiate and survive a lawsuit against a consolidator for unjust termination. 

5.  What’s the chance of a pay raise in the foreseeable future at a decent radio group.  

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1.  Why Cumulus is increasingly concerned about allegations it has kicked back money to ad agencies in return for big radio buys – discounts that their advertisers may not be sharing in or even know about.

2.  Last time Cumulus blamed its accounting problems (also known derisively as “cooking the books”) on founder Richard Weening.  Now what’s their excuse?

3.  How even an outside auditor may miss the so-called “exchanges” with ad agencies unless, of course, they know exactly what to look for.  Here’s exactly what to look for.

4.  How two Cumulus top execs react to my allegations – and then you decide whose nose is growing faster than Pinocchio.

5.  What the legal repercussions could be if Cumulus can’t make this whole thing go away by gagging those responsible.

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1.  The 5 most endangered FM radio formats and why. 

2.  The hottest radio formats and why.  The “why” is the important part.

3.  Why investment bank radio is moving toward, you should pardon the expression, derivative content.  You can finally see the hand of investment banks in the formats they favor.

4.  Two unthinkable and previously untouchable FM formats that I believe will soon be a goner.

5.  My advice:  how to run a radio station that competes with Pandora and Spotify.  The best options.

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1.  Major compensation changes forced on salespeople at Clear Channel Phoenix that likely if not probably will be implemented in their other markets.

2.  How consolidators like Clear Channel and Cumulus aim to start thinning their sales forces by employing a tactic called pissing them off. 

3.  What is punitive compensation – the consolidators’ new tactic for hitting salespeople in their paychecks.  Under the new sales plan, a seller who accepts punitive compensation will have their hands full.

4.  How the two big consolidators are planning to eliminate local commissions by doing something questionable and maybe even illegal.  Nonetheless, be warned.

5.  Now that all major consolidators are eliminating local programming, they still need a full force of local sellers, right?

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