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re: How much do weekend local news reporters make?
Posted on 1/23/17 at 9:44 am to TheDeathValley
Posted on 1/23/17 at 9:44 am to TheDeathValley
I'm a communication professor. My specialty is public relations, not broadcast, but I get these students sometimes. A middle market job like Jackson, Baton Rouge or Shreveport would pay around $22-$25k A weeknight anchor is going to make $40-45k. A place like Alexandria. Tupelo or Hattiesburg won't pay more than $20k. They usually get free clothes and hair styling, contracted by the stations in exchange for free advertising.
Every one of the girls that go into it think they are going to hit it big and get a $20 million contract at Fox News or CNN. They dont realize that there are other pretty girls. The guys think they will be on ESPN. They dont realize that there are other guys that know sports. Like someone said, everybody likes the idea of being on TV. The smart ones end up going the public relations route where there is a realistic chance at making $100k one day.
Every one of the girls that go into it think they are going to hit it big and get a $20 million contract at Fox News or CNN. They dont realize that there are other pretty girls. The guys think they will be on ESPN. They dont realize that there are other guys that know sports. Like someone said, everybody likes the idea of being on TV. The smart ones end up going the public relations route where there is a realistic chance at making $100k one day.
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Posted on 1/23/17 at 9:48 am to TheDeathValley
Teaching is the route I'm going. Yea the kids and their parents but the benefits are so much more numerous.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 9:54 am to anc
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Like someone said, everybody likes the idea of being on TV.
I personally don't get it. People have this weird infatuation with on-air people. They stalk them, send them flowers, show up at the station and ask to speak to them personally. I've seen some legitimately creepy interactions with people while out in the field. Like creepy in a "let's gtfo of here before he pulls out a gun and kills us all" kind of way.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 9:57 am to King of New Orleans
Hooked up with one in college. She couldn't afford her own place on what they were paying her.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 10:35 am to MintBerry Crunch
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Likely because it takes little skill to get in front of the camera and talk. It just takes experience
Maybe for certain jobs. But doing sports is definitely more than just talking in front of the camera. Especially is a lower-mid market. Sports dudes literally do everything under ridiculous deadlines. Try shooting 5 games, going back, editing games, doing the graphics and scores, gathering rosters and stats to write to the highlights you just cut, then going on and trying not to seem rushed. Experience is the key, but it does take some skill.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:26 am to anc
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Every one of the girls that go into it think they are going to hit it big and get a $20 million contract at Fox News or CNN.
Wife didn't think/want that at all. She generally enjoys writing and reporting. Freelance's for a few newspapers. She just didn't like assholes she worked with or the weird hours.
Sidenote: She teaches fourth grade now and loves it. She hated the news room.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:27 am to cornstarch
I was a producer at WAFB my senior year of college making $8 per hour to produce the Sunday morning news and help write scripts a couple other days. I was also a producer at WBRZ for a while and then Fox 26 in Houston until about 6 months ago. Over at WBRZ I was making less than 30k. I left to be a high school math teacher because the pay is freakishly higher and I no longer have to work overnights/weekends.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:36 am to gar90
That's peanuts
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:37 am to gar90
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I left to be a high school math teacher
Congrats on the sex.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 11:53 am to gar90
What were you making in Houston?
Also, do you enjoy teaching?
Also, do you enjoy teaching?
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Posted on 1/23/17 at 12:22 pm to anc
The pay is brutally bad from what I hear.
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Posted on 1/23/17 at 12:31 pm to scrooster
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Posted on 1/23/17 at 1:33 pm to King of New Orleans
I know one that makes a 45k base plus OT. But they don't work for TV.
This post was edited on 1/23/17 at 1:34 pm
Posted on 1/23/17 at 1:38 pm to King of New Orleans
quote:TV stations have to pay them??
How much do weekend local news reporters make?
Posted on 1/23/17 at 6:15 pm to Superior Pariah
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What were you making in Houston?
Also, do you enjoy teaching?
When I left it was roughly 36k after a year as an associate producer. I had the option to make about 44k with a "promotion" to producer (it would be in title only, the job would be exactly the same). I turned it down because the pay bump would mean no more overtime pay or double pay on holidays and I was making more with that.
That said, I am loving teaching. Obviously I'll never get rich with it but you can't beat the lifestyle of being home by 6 every night, not working weekends, and having vacation days already built in instead of having to sweat it out until 2 weeks before to see if the boss will approve of it keeping me from planning stuff. Also, the job itself is pretty amazing and it's really rewarding getting to play a role in those kids lives.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 6:28 pm to goldennugget
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