Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://www.rbr.com/ ©2010 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.rbr.com/files.php?file=rss_logo1_757997737.jpg http://www.rbr.com/ http://www.rbr.com/media-news/18632.html Media News Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:51:00 -0500 The News Media Guild is calling it “Black Tuesday at AP.” The union says it has received official notice from the Associated Press that 57 Media News Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:52:01 -0500 I've always appreciated the quality of the AP's work. The journalists were top-notch and programming excellent. But my gripe was "for a non-profit, the cost for their service was way out of line". I had one small non-com LPFM want AP's top of the hour newscast. They were the only station in a town of 4,000, with the nearest "bigger city" about 15 miles away with a poplulation of 15,000 and a comemrcial AM/FM combo. The cost for the LPFM to purchase news exceed their yearly budget by over 10x!!! I tried to negotiate and get them service only to find out a small town commercial station actually got a LOWER rate than this LPFM (which, by the way, was based out of a high school and programmed AC/Oldies during the day and CHR night. In any case, AP's attitude was "we're the only game in town, so you can take it or leave it". We LEFT IT! So, now I say they're hurting and wonder why a non-profit company charges ridiculous amounts of money for little station and SERIOUSLY wonder how much their executive staff makes. Instead of cutting down the people that do all the work, why didn't they also reduce all salaries of the executives by 10%. I have a feeling there is a lot of over-paid people at AP. Seeing good journalists loose their jobs over the lack of the company running fat and happy (and over-charging little stations and having a "holier than thou" attitude) stinks. Journalsts, I'm sorry for you. AP as a company, you stink! Try treating customers better; be fair; and stop copping an attitude!