Yup 2 can live cheaper than 1 Posted on February 3, 2022 at 01:39:15 AM by just sayin
That was true til I got out of broadcasting. And her pension's TWICE what mine is because I didn't have employer paid contributions until I got out of the media. I was catchin up fast tho, cuz I worked for a natnl not-for-profit that didn't have shareholders. So they were very good to their employees. And unlike the media, they invested in their employees, thinking of us as ASSETS, not EXPENSES like the media does. So we got a lot of paid training, paid schooling for those who didnt' already have degrees, inventment matching.
Some private companies do that. Hallmark did--owned by the Hall family.. you couldn't hardly spend your career there without ending up with a million dollar valued pension. It was just hard to get on there because of their cracker jack reputation.
Others too, providing healthcare with no cap. If you got a kid with a heart condition, the'll pay for it all. And they don't fire people jsut because they end up expensive. Medical companies are very generous as well with their people. So is government. They don't lay people off. If they don't need your job anymore, they'll cross train you into something else and keep you on the payroll.
Ya don't find that in radio very often but it happens. Probably more, now that there's no limit in how many stations a company can own. RET went from WHB to their sister station in Miami, I think. That was a pretty good jump for a guy who just moved the music after 6pm and followed the format. HB was an AM rocker then and FM's SuperQ was cleaning their clock. AM wasn't a happy place to be when FM sounded so much better. But I presume they took care of him. I dunno what happened to the rest of them since I left the market and played in TV for abt ten more years. It didn't pay all that much better but it was way more fun, I'll say. We all got regular raises in those days because pre-Reagan inflation was pretty high and our careers hadn't yet peaked--we were still moving upwards as our skills improved.|
Local media didn't get into trouble until the country got wired for cable and the resultant competition for eyes and ears (and ad dollars.) Then when Internet came along (I was out by then) well y'all know what happened then and I figure that transition isn't over with.
But I know one thing, theres a gigantic streaming war going on to run cable TV out of business. In the last six months all the streamers have added many dozens of new on demand movies to their lineups and they change em every few days. Even Spectrum's added a ton of new On Demand stuff and their movie presentations display just like Netflix and Roku. Now there's Apple, and YouTube and a whole bunch more.
The last time I saw so many movies being offered was back in the mid 70s when cable was new and enticing first time subsribers and then trying to shut down the tape and CD rental industries--which they did. And just in time for America stuck at home with Covid! Will theaters come back with their overpriced popcorn and sodas? I have 8 video screens and two mobile devices. Haven't been to a theater in years. Replies: