Episode Description
Radio used to be the dream. Now some veteran broadcasters are getting shown the door over Zoom — and one of us was recently offered $14 an hour to get back behind the mic.
Welcome to Episode 51 of Circling the Drain.
Johnny Bozeman, Jay Harper and Jim McCarthy take a look at the current state of radio, including the latest round of iHeart layoffs, longtime personalities suddenly finding themselves out of work, the slow disappearance of AM radio and a question nobody in radio used to want to answer:
How much does this business actually PAY anymore?
Plus, the guys look back at the radio they grew up listening to, how Nashville radio has changed, the strange ability broadcasters develop to instantly turn "it on" when the mic opens, and some absolutely unfiltered stories from their own days behind the board.
Including the night Johnny may have fallen asleep while playing Willie Nelson on the radio.
Oh...and Circling the Drain may not be called Circling the Drain much longer.
Apparently inviting an artist onto a show called "Circling the Drain" can occasionally be misunderstood.
Who knew?
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