"Christian company" when it helps, "platform for ministry" when that fits better - Anonymous employee Salem Media Group Employee Review

2.0
Apr 19, 2013
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Members of staff who are quite professional no matter what. Opportunity to listen to great ministries on the air.

Cons

Intentionally ethnically homogenous staffing, so comfortable that minority employees have been told racist jokes. Women are not treated as equals. Morality is second to income, and a number of employees who would not bend their morality have been eliminated or quit. People are second to income, and an excellent, profitable employee was let go rather than simply shown the personal appreciation that would have kept this employee in place. Complaints to corporate management are bounced back to local without action. Complaints to the Salem ethics resource were deemed merely low morale despite material evidence to the contrary.

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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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