Industry Thoughts-August 26th, 2008

How in the hell do you justify taking home this much money when your company is barely making a profit? Don't get me wrong; CBS is one of the only radio conglomerates to actually be visionary, and I appreciate that they pay their talent what they are worth. But wow!

"CBS' LES MOONVES landed at number three on the ASSOCIATED PRESS' list of highest-paid CEOs this year.

MOONVES, at $67.6 million in compensation, trailed only ORACLE's LARRY ELLISON (at $84.6 million) and MERRILL LYNCH's JOHN THAIN ($83.1 million) on the list."
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On another CBS note, I'm glad to see Rob Scorpio getting the job at WPGC. I don't know him, but I've followed his career from afar. Through his interviews he seem to be a good dude, plus he has been successful everywhere he has been given the resources to succeed (let's just forget about the West Coast, shall we?). With Donnie and Big Tigger holding drive time down, there is no reason to think he won't be successful in DC.

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Update on Choice FM-London
I'm still very surprised on how much American music is played on Choice FM in England. I'm going to have to do some research on other Urban stations in that area, because there has to be more talent in the UK than they are displaying on that station. I love the fact that it's an uptempo station; however, one of the things that I have to get used to is their personalities talking over the final 1/3 of the songs. They will talk 45 to 70 seconds over the words of the song! That makes their forward momentum crazy because they never let the music stop, but if you can't hear the final verse of the song, what's the point?

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