Re: Kitman's Law
AskAsa
5/30/2012 1:08:42 PM
Stern and limbaugh don't pretend to be not for profit.
@AskAsa
I don't know that those salaries are shockingly high. NPR is basically in every radio market in the country (and some overseas). Millions of people listen to it, it's a big market.
If you compare it to what Rush Limbaugh or Howard Stern make, it's peanuts. Those guys make millions of dollars a year.
--Scott
Thanks for the data @AskAsa
I too, won't begrude anyone money they've earned. Would point out that the average listener who donates $35 bucks, is making a lot less than these hosts. Same could be said of the average taxpayer.
So why doesn't NPR just adopt an advertising model for their funding?
PC
Re: Kitman's Law
AskAsa
5/30/2012 12:24:08 PM
And top talent arent exactly starving.
I dont begrudge anyone the maximum they can earn. ( People are truly worth what they can get ) But you have to ask youself how many of these folks have offered to reduce salaries, how many execs have taken paycuts before going begging during pledge week.
Fresh Air host / executive producer Terry Gross: $245,563 in 2008
This American Life host Ira Glass: earned $170,605 in 2008
Morning Edition host Renee Montagne: $405,140
Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep: $356,499
All Things Considered anchor Robert Siegel: $358,653
Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon: $364,465
Re: Kitman's Law
AskAsa
5/30/2012 12:19:58 PM
PBS President Paula Kerger earned $632,233, NPR former President Kevin Klose $1.2 million, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison earned $298,884, plus $70,630 in additional compensation.
Re: Kitman's Law
Phoenix
5/30/2012 12:05:09 PM
Start up costs should have been the biggest costs incurred. Start up costs surely are not reoccuring costs. But running costs also seem to be high if the number of requests for donations are so high. Where exactly does all that money go if employees are paid so poorly?
Re: Kitman's Law
AskAsa
5/30/2012 11:51:27 AM
Many of the slow talkers and support staff are either trust fund babies or people who've taken a vow of poverty in order to look cool and socially committed.
The top execs in that system know that such disdain for money is merely a trick of the rich and so they reward themselves handsomely.
It takes a lot of money to get people to talk slowly and soothingly enough to lull listeners to sleep, even while you are driving...
Re: Kitman's Law
AskAsa
5/30/2012 10:37:37 AM
Why is Public Broadcasting so expensive?
With the exception of some extemely fat cats at the top of the ladder they pay very poorly. I've known people who work clerking part time in order to subsidize their Public Radio position.
The days of having to have a station serving even the tiniest markets are long gone. Internet radio has rendered that model obsolete.
There was a time when the only place you could find programming like Steve Allens "Meeting of the Minds" was PBS - that's not the case anymore.
Why do they need all this money?
Just yesterday, I was stuck in traffic, happily listening to a report on the collapse of our economy as we know it, when BOOM...the annoying plea for donations. My mother spent years guilting me into action. I don't need public radio taking over now.
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