Comments on: WABE-FM hits record $1.2 million for fall pledge drive http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/2009/11/03/wabe-fm-hits-1-million-again-for-fall-pledge-drive/ Rodney Ho covers TV and radio, from Atlanta’s stations to the hottest “American Idol" news. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:04:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: JB Airwaves http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/2009/11/03/wabe-fm-hits-1-million-again-for-fall-pledge-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-17180 JB Airwaves Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:54:55 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/?p=6507#comment-17180 Wow--it's the second time I've heard about WABE brass making tons of money while the real people(wabe reporters/hosts) pretty much make pennies. The CEO makes over 2-hundred thousand dollars, Weatherford over 1-hundred thousand and the CEO has a company car! So, has either reported a news story or host an on air shift? Seems to me the people that deliver the content should be making the dough. And how many people watch PBA 30? I think the answer is in the name, 30. Wow–it’s the second time I’ve heard about WABE brass making tons of money while the real people(wabe reporters/hosts) pretty much make pennies. The CEO makes over 2-hundred thousand dollars, Weatherford over 1-hundred thousand and the CEO has a company car! So, has either reported a news story or host an on air shift? Seems to me the people that deliver the content should be making the dough. And how many people watch PBA 30? I think the answer is in the name, 30.

]]> By: juanita driggs http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/2009/11/03/wabe-fm-hits-1-million-again-for-fall-pledge-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-17178 juanita driggs Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:37:27 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/?p=6507#comment-17178 Two other things could further enhance WABE's bottom line: PBA could stop siphoning off funds collected during radio pledge drives to prop up the chronically financially ailing WPBA 30. At the very least inform the listeners that this might actually be occurring. If PBA 30 can't make it on its own then it should be permitted to fail and the state should be invited to take over operation of the t-v side of the franchise. Then Weatherford and the other top personnel should share the pain during these tight economic times and kick back ten thousand dollars each of their overly compensated salaries. When I was growing up many years ago public service, which WABE is in reality, implied a sacrifice to the greater good, giving something back to the community one was serving. If the people who run PBA can't or won't understand this simple concept then perhaps they should move over to the "commercial" side of the broadcast spectrum where capitalism rules and one is permitted to make as much as the market will bear...if they think they can cut it over there. Two other things could further enhance WABE’s bottom line: PBA could stop siphoning off funds collected during radio pledge drives to prop up the chronically financially ailing WPBA 30. At the very least inform the listeners that this might actually be occurring. If PBA 30 can’t make it on its own then it should be permitted to fail and the state should be invited to take over operation of the
t-v side of the franchise.

Then Weatherford and the other top personnel should share the pain during these tight economic times and kick back ten thousand dollars each of their overly compensated salaries. When I was growing up many years ago public service, which WABE is in reality, implied a sacrifice to the greater good, giving something back to the community one was serving. If the people who run PBA can’t or won’t understand this simple concept then perhaps they should move over to the “commercial” side of the broadcast spectrum where capitalism rules and one is permitted to make as much as the market will bear…if they think they can cut it over there.

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