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.

The best and only good indication of when it is time to leave your position and move on.  How to respond when your company fires a well-respected associate (do this and they’ll stop firing people).  The best use of your time to overcome a bad radio employer.  Where is the best place for a radio person to look for a career that will be even more rewarding in the years ahead.

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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. 

If you’ve thought of quitting, wait long enough to read this.

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.

So don’t quit -- yet.

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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