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Had to chime in on your recent articles on the state of the business. 

Scripps posted $145 million in profit in Q3 2022.   Yet, no end of the year bonus for rank and file employees.  Just wondering will Adam Symson or Brian Lawlor take home a bonus this year? 

At least Sinclair gave their people 50 bucks to spend on Amazon.  Something is better than nothing. 

Station groups don’t get it.  It’s insulting to receive a quarterly survey on employee satisfaction when the holidays come and go and the employees who make it all run seamlessly feel as appreciated as a piece of gum on the bottom of a shoe.  And they wonder why people don’t stay. They actually have to ask how to improve the employee experience.  It’s all a smoke screen.  The leaders of these news companies aren’t stupid.  They know what will improve the employee experience and make people stay in the business.  They are unwilling to do that one thing that will get people to stay. 

TV News execs are the modern day Scrooge. 

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Talking about the turnover in Cincy newsrooms.

The bean counters have finally taken every ounce of enjoyment out of the job.  Too many jobs combined into one person’s duties. 

Low pay to boot.  No one wants to do it. 

And only a few are actually capable of doing it well.

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About the Cincy News Director canceling time off due to a possible snowstorm.

This is a typical News Director idiot.  In the first place, if the blizzard is going to be as bad as he thinks, all flights will be cancelled anyway.  If all flights are not cancelled, then it’s not worth the wall to wall coverage.  Is it? 

So, that whole line of thinking is moot.  In the second place, the only people who’d be in “danger” from a blizzard Thursday and Friday would be the reporters he’d send out to tell people who are already staying home to stay home—and to show people who have windows in their homes that it’s snowing a lot. 

The real reason he’s going to ruin people’s holidays is that he knows the other idiot News Directors are going to do the same thing. 

Why don’t they just have a conference call and decide to have one volunteer crew each and a weather person in the studio handling the coverage?  It would be cheaper and just as effective. 

Besides, it’s the holidays.  People are not crowded around their TVs watching local news people making fools of themselves. 

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Scott,

Going 9 years without taking a day off is not good for you. Hell, going 9 days without a day off is bad.

I hope you seriously look at taking a vacation in the near future. We’ll be here when you get back.