What’s the big secret behind the “business deal” between the San Diego Union-Tribune and radio station XTRA Sports 1360 AM?The Union-Tribune has its sportswriters on a daily (Monday-Friday) show from 10 am-noon, but here’s what you won’t read about in the supposedly tell-all Union-Tribune:
The newspaper is paying $1,000 an hour to have its sportswriters on The Sports Page with Josh Rosenberg. As part of the deal, the Union-Tribune is selling ads for the show.
Also, the sportswriters on the show do not receive any compensation for their time. That’s sure to build morale in the already-deteriorating newspaper business.
The next time you hear (or see) the Union-Tribune collectively beating its chest for thinking it blows the whistle on others, just ask why the paper doesn’t blow the whistle on itself.
This “business deal” is an example of the U-T thinking it is above the rules it sets for others.
2 comments:
This is interesting, David Copley is funding Xtra Sports AND SOSD Radio.
What about a deal with Channel 4. They have those ads on the front page of sports and several sports writers are on that terrible show at 10 p.m.
Hmmmm?
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