Drew Garabo "In Your Face" Listening Thread - July 2013

[SJ]

Originally Posted by Drew Garabo Thanks! Radio contracts, just so you know, always favor the company rather than the talent. Unless you're on a Stern level, they can almost always fire you at any time and get away with paying you just a few months' severance pay. Plus, they can hold you to a non-compete of a few months to a year. Why sign one, then? There's really no good reason other than the intangible "security" of feeling like you're taken care of for the foreseeable future.

Doesn't it give the station more of a foothold in the marketplace though to say they have their talent locked in to a contract?

I guess on FM it's different, but in other markets your talent is what you sell the ad revenue on.

Wouldn't it be better to say to your advertisers "We understand you like Mr Garabo reading your on air ads and we can guarantee you we won't have 14 different hosts in a span of 4 months reading them"

If no one had contracts you guys might move around like baseball players and then we'd never know what station to turn on

[Cpt. Mcgillicutty]

Originally Posted by Drew Garabo Thanks! Radio contracts, just so you know, always favor the company rather than the talent. Unless you're on a Stern level, they can almost always fire you at any time and get away with paying you just a few months' severance pay. Plus, they can hold you to a non-compete of a few months to a year. Why sign one, then? There's really no good reason other than the intangible "security" of feeling like you're taken care of for the foreseeable future.

Thanks for the insight Drew, I totally get it when you put it that way. It's just we're all rooting for you and want to see you taken care of. There was no ill will meant in any of my previous posts. Thanks for taking the time to respond

[Cpt. Mcgillicutty]

Originally Posted by SJ Doesn't it give the station more of a foothold in the marketplace though to say they have their talent locked in to a contract? I guess on FM it's different, but in other markets your talent is what you sell the ad revenue on. Wouldn't it be better to say to your advertisers "We understand you like Mr Garabo reading your on air ads and we can guarantee you we won't have 14 different hosts in a span of 4 months reading them" If no one had contracts you guys might move around like baseball players and then we'd never know what station to turn on

I guess we've all been conditioned (after listening to Bubba for all these years) to think the best when our favorite radio hosts get "locked in" to multi-year deals and the worst when they don't. Radio is a fickle business where you don't know if you have a job from one day to the next, that would be too much for me to deal with on a normal basis. Keep doing your thing Drew, the contract situation (or lack thereof) will take care of itself.

[Ace]

#teamDrew

[NeTaS]

sup sup dudes

[Ace]

Know your limits kids

[Cpt. Mcgillicutty]

Afternoon Ace y Netas.

[Ace]

Afternoon "Cpt My Cpt"

[Cpt. Mcgillicutty]

If I'm the bar "manager" I call two of the thick neck bouncers over to haul this guy out. That's what you pay those guys for.

[Ace]

Originally Posted by Cpt. Mcgillicutty If I'm the bar "manager" I call two of the thick neck bouncers over to haul this guy out. That's what you pay those guys for.

[PissJug]

he went limp in his arms eh?

[Ace]

Originally Posted by PissJug he went limp in his arms eh?

Got his face smashed too.

[Cpt. Mcgillicutty]

Drew's doing a live show on Friday, that's cool.

[Ace]

The apocalypse has begun... Singer from Nickleback marries Avril Levine.

[Ace]

Originally Posted by Cpt. Mcgillicutty Drew's doing a live show on Friday, that's cool.

Hardest working man in radio!