The end of Mark Madden? UPDATED: He's FIRED!

corporate america is ruining all media,so its not shock that he got gassed....but if this was not his first warning ESPN has the right to do so.....i wonder how he is handling his adopted sons SIdney and Malkin scoring about as frequently this week as Madden does all year

 

I asked a friend of mine to look quick..
Actually, Madden did an overall 3. Worse.
And considering Ellis does as well as he does, trailing Mark by only .3 while having a non-sports lead-in, while Mark has a sports leadin, well, I don;t know how else to convince you that Madden wasn't the legend he thought he was.

 

Again -- please speak only about subjects you know about.

He didn't piss off the bean counters, despite Markvid's attempts to say the guy's show wasn't bringing advertisers, it was and it was profitable, which is why he lasted as long as he did.

And how many more steps like this do we have to take before we wake up one day and realize the airwaves are no longer free.

If you don't like his show or Rush Limbaugh's show or Hannity's show and think they are meanies -- don't listen.

And if there wasn't a market for this kind of shit -- Imus wouldn't have his own show and Howard Stern wouldn't be making millions on Sirius.

 

What demo are those numbers?

 

And Honsberger has been at KDKA for 25+ years. Please don't tell me Madden makes more than him.
I'd bet a year's salary that ain't true.
I'd bet I made more last year than Madden.

 

The 3 was overall, the 8 was 12-18.

 

I'm calling bullshit MarkVid because I've seen the books -- and Ellis Cannon is on a station that is TEN TIMES AS LARGE as WEAE -- he gets half of his audience by accident.

Madden was not only the highest rated sports talk host in the market, he was BY FAR the highest paid.

These are two facts that aren't very disputable.

You can spin the ratings anyway you want --- Madden was on a shit little signal and still pulled in a big audience.

He destroys Joe Bendel on a daily basis in the same time slot.

 

What he does in Men 18-34, 18-49, 25-54, etc. would be what they would sell, being a sports talker, I would imagine. Maybe that's what they cite when making ratings claims.

 

Oh, ok, you said highest paid talk show host - you didn't say sports talk.
Anyway, I've been emailing someone over at KDKA Radio tonight, that's what I'm told.
But I'd still bet I pull in a better salary than Madden.
Someone who makes big money like Madden claims doesn't write $40 a week columns for small papers like he did.

 

Sorry, junior mint, but if he's such a juggernaut, why'd he get fired? And who fired him?

 

OK, let me clarify highest paid SPORTS talk show host. And it ain't even close, not close, in this city.

And I'd be willing to bet he is much closer to Honsberger in salary than you think and it wouldn't shock me if he does better than Hons too. He made a lot of money.