So Cal Blues - Media Strategist Salem Media Group Employee Review

1.0
28 Jan 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Working remotely when permitted to

Cons

The company is in real trouble and the San Diego stations are no different. Very challenging to find AM radio prospects for religious talk or right-wing political talk. They tried to pivot by white-labeling their digital, but the prices are higher than most and the results are almost never there. The sales teams are a revolving door because they almost always want you to start from scratch to build your own book of business. Usually takes less than 6 months for someone new to realize that what was said in the interview was not realistic.

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Salem Media Group Response
1y
Thank you so much for taking the time to review Salem Media Group and we appreciate your honest feedback! We understand the challenges you've mentioned and appreciate your insights.

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5.0
28 Dec 2025
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Pros

Solid leadership Forward thinking Faith driven

Cons

Stations are run with lean staffing in some locations

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Salem Media Group Response
5mo
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!
2.0
31 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

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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