Harbaugh gets $2M pay bump for life insurance premium
August 17th, 2016 at 8:10 PM ^
August 18th, 2016 at 3:16 AM ^
August 17th, 2016 at 9:28 PM ^
Is that why V and F have crushed every competitior that's tried to run a drive time show against them? is that why they almost single-handedly folded 105.1 as a sports campaign? Is that why they've stayed together longer than anyone else in Detroit radio? because of the Tigers?
Like Valenti or not he knows his schtick and he's damn good at it. They're the best show Detroit has and they've crushed everyone. Remember when Stoney and Wojo were #1 in Detroit? Yea, both of them got shitcanned because their network couldn't compete with V and F...that's why both are on 97.1 now. In an industry that's highly competitive and lasting 5 years together as a talk show is an achievement V and F have been together for 14(?) years.
I don't listen to them much anymore but honestly, he's got it all down to an art: Pick fights with specific fan bases, call people stupid, rile people up, hang up on them, be a master of hyperbole, have a huge reaction to everything that happens in sports. It just makes more inarticulate idiots want to call up and one up the guy before them and they get punched in the face as well. You'll notice (at least in their hey-day) they rarely put on callers who agreed with Mike.
He's the king of the mountain and Detroit just laps it up. They are consistently rated amongst the top 5-7 most listened to local-only broadcasts and they aren't even in a top 10 media market.
August 17th, 2016 at 9:54 PM ^
August 18th, 2016 at 8:22 AM ^
that's fine. I'm not saying he's ubiquitous but to say he's only successful (like the guy I responded to did) because of the Tigers is asinine.
August 18th, 2016 at 11:43 AM ^
August 18th, 2016 at 11:54 AM ^
I have no clue how you got negged for that. You're dead on.
You don't have to like Mike Valenti (I can't imagine why any Michigan fan would), but you are blind if you can't acknowledge his talent and ability to drive ratings.
There's a reason he gets away with constantly calling his own station and program directors idiots on the air, and it's certainly not because they have the Tigers. It's because CBS Radio would fire everyone at that station if it meant they can keep Valenti's unstoppable ratings train on the tracks.
(Terry Foster, on the other hand, is a complete tool who was in the right place at the right time. That show is markedly better when he's on vacation and ANYBODY else fills in with Valenti.)
August 17th, 2016 at 9:45 PM ^
this is good news to me. Greg Henson was a damn good gadio host back in the day..I wonder if he has anything left after all this time.
August 17th, 2016 at 8:00 PM ^
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August 17th, 2016 at 9:48 PM ^
Michigan Radio (NPR).
August 17th, 2016 at 6:53 PM ^
Dumbass. He could have gotten life insurance for just pennies a day from Gerber Life.
August 17th, 2016 at 7:01 PM ^
That' freakin' morbid sh*t. I remember seeing that when my kids were babies. Gerber, when my kids croak from your poison baby food, will you pay the funeral expenses?
August 17th, 2016 at 6:59 PM ^
You fart through silk, a meritocracy as it should be.
August 17th, 2016 at 7:04 PM ^
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August 17th, 2016 at 10:52 PM ^
is my understandung. Tax free, interest free loans against life insurance policy. The death benefit pays your loan balance.
August 17th, 2016 at 7:35 PM ^
BTW this makes JH even with Saban in pay I think
August 17th, 2016 at 7:55 PM ^
How well do you think that will go over?
August 17th, 2016 at 7:59 PM ^
You know, I get life insurance coverage through work (fairly common in the utility industry anyway), but the payouts are kind of indexed to salary.
*looks at salary*
I hope it isn't THAT serious, whatever it is...
August 17th, 2016 at 8:01 PM ^
The submarine is clearly out of range if reporters at the surface are writing stuff like this.
August 17th, 2016 at 8:25 PM ^
I would have loved to have been the advisor that sold that policy. That's an easy $500k+ commission check. Probably closer to 750k+.
August 17th, 2016 at 9:21 PM ^
Really? I dont' think so.. Not a high net worth wholesale polciy.
August 17th, 2016 at 10:15 PM ^
Assuming they did minimum face to let cash build (initial face is still over 40 million), that'd be a target premium of $551,800 so the commission check would be around $634,000. Not a bad days work.
August 17th, 2016 at 8:27 PM ^
August 17th, 2016 at 8:29 PM ^
You consider that a hit piece?
August 17th, 2016 at 9:03 PM ^
Really took Coach down with this one.
August 17th, 2016 at 9:28 PM ^
August 17th, 2016 at 11:07 PM ^
Coach would've gotten 10M in the NFL ....UM gets a discount .....I sure hope we beat MSU this year !
August 18th, 2016 at 6:53 AM ^
August 18th, 2016 at 9:21 AM ^
We cannot talk about this just yet...
August 17th, 2016 at 11:41 PM ^