CUMULUS MEDIA Reviews

Pros

Some employees are great people.

Cons

Local and corporate management care about only two things, returns for the shareholders and protecting their own butts.

Pros

If you're desperate to get a job in radio, this might be the place for you. If you want to observe the slow, painful death of radio in America, this might be the place for you. They don't do drug tests or background checks, so they'll just hire anyone.

Cons

The corporate overlords do not care about their staff, nor the quality of the product. All departments have slashed their budgets and workforces to the bone, but are still tasked with more work than they could possibly do correctly, so shortcuts and incompetence about at every step. The company is only concerned with the all-mighty dollar. I know every business exists to make money, but this is a company where the only way your department could get the resources and tools necessary to do their work is if an in-kind advertising arrangement can be made. The pay offered is so low that it was difficult to find entry-level workers. People literally left to work at places like Target and Walmart because the pay and benefits were better there.

Pros

The radio business is very interesting. A lot of options to help customers with marketing and advertising. So much so it can be overwhelming. But nonetheless there is always something fir someone to buy. Advertising in general is time consuming, it is not a 8-5 job when starting out. You have access to the digital advertising which can be very lucrative. You have about 4 months to get ramped up. If you are in a smaller market it can be difficult unless you grew up there. In larger markets it could be big as it is truly a numbers game, because it is so competitive. Stay diligent and it will pay off as commissions are huge. Insurance benefits are excellent. Due to covid, there is no 401k match at this time and yes, Covid has impacted sales. Great team of managers, who truly want to see you succeed.

Cons

It may be their system when entering orders. It seems a little antiquated. Also, I had no idea the FCC watches over everything with a fine tooth comb.

Pros

None none none none none

Cons

The worst place to work. Too many high paid chiefs with lay offs, staff cuts.

Pros

Coworkers who aren’t management are awesome-some really wonderful people to work with.

Cons

Biggest problem is the OM. Someone who should have never been made a manager. Has no issue with lying, messing with people’s pay and hours, throwing people under the bus, getting staff fired-this guy does it or has done it to an employee during his tenor there. Another problem is the VPs don’t care/don’t believe staff complaints. It gets discussed and then pushed under the rug until the next time. Corporate also ignores multiple staff complaints on surveys and does nothing to fix the problem.