Radio Is Having To Reinvent Itself; Salem Is Dangerously Behind The Curve - Anonymous employee Salem Media Group Employee Review

1.0
4 Mar 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Open door to students and young people looking for a start in a cottage industry. - One dollar bonus after 2 years of service.

Cons

- Toxic workplace and business operations. - Unwilling to provide living wage or fair compensation. The Benefits package was an unaffordable luxury. - Double standards with no oversight. Remote Work/ Stay-At-Home for a majority while a minority are required to commute and be micromanaged to a fault. - As technology is currently moving at lightspeed and the media landscape is shifting faster than we've ever experienced in history, Salem's operation seems to be stuck in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. - Favoritism run amok. Bullying not acknowledged. - HR is distant and disconnected from the actual culture of the company. - Unchecked poor performance results. - There is no middle in this company. It's either the grossly underpaid or the well-off. This gap is detrimental to productivity, team morale, and the quality of output and services. - The words innovation, progress, and multimedia have escaped this company. They are riding a tricycle on the Autobahn. - Upskilling not appreciated or supported. - To achieve upward mobility in the company, kowtowing to upper-management is more effective than professional development. - Deceptive virtue signaling. Salem produces & supports Christian content, although the actions of management are far from the Christian values they pose behind.

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Salem Media Group Response
1y
Thank you so much for taking the time to review Salem Media Group. We value both the positive and negative feedback as it allows us to see how we can improve for the future.

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Solid leadership Forward thinking Faith driven

Cons

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Salem Media Group Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience and kind words about our leadership and mission. We appreciate your honest feedback about staffing and are always working to balance resources to best serve our teams and audiences. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors!
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Great supportive local environment, people called to work there to support the mission.

Cons

Corporate digital leadership is disjointed and systems are chaotic. Actual delivered campaigns are inevitably flawed and mis managed. Retaliatory, narcisstic, abusive corporate digital leadership. Constant systems changes and zero assistance in navigating. More and more digital agency and other jobs outsourced to Asia. Salespeople are exhausted and burned out by programs failing. Zero accountability taken by Ad Ops team for mistakes or extrene lag time in responses from internal automated systems. Salary cuts to 'help the company' plays on the mission minded employees, taking advantage of employees good intentions by underpaying them compared to industry. No 401K match.

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