Salem REview - Anonymous employee Salem Media Group Employee Review

4.0
Aug 28, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Passion for the mission is shared virtually universally among the employees. Virtually all mid and senior level managers are professional broadcasters and handle their business accordingly. This creates an extremely rewarding environment

Cons

Compensation can be lower than expected. There is developing a culture of, if not control, tight monitoring of various local responsibilities which detracts from the ability of local professionals to execute with excellence. Reporting performance metrics to corp support personnel on a weekly basis is totaling up to lost time with clients, pastors, community, advertisers.

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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
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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
May 31, 2026
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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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