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Let me once again explain to non-radio people how radio works. Back in the O&A days, we had Roland. He operated outside of SXM. That's over now, so what happens, is that SXM books guests, who then DO ALL THE SHOWS. No big or semi big guest is showing up for Jim & Sam. If they get Bryan Cranston, it's because Bryan Cranston was dong a media tour, and did 4 other shows before J&S. I'm not trying to be mean or hurtful, but I don't see how you're this oblivious to the way things work.
Travis has been on staff since 06, hired at $52K, by your logic he should be making more that Sam, right? Troy has been there long too, so I guess he gets a six figure salary as well. Can you imagine working at a place for 20 years and STILL not bringing home major cash? Why do you think Travis still works there. Why do you think Sam still does his thing. This is all they have, and they have no place else to go. Show up everyday, do your work, be nice to everyone and don't get fired. You look at Sam and think, what a success!! Meanwhile, I look at Sam and think, "Wow, he's really got nothing else." Jim & Sam are the stagnant leftovers of Opie & Anthony, who haven't been able to gain any traction or upward movement since the show's inception.
J&S been on what, 8 years? O&A had already blown up Boston, blew up NY, and landed a multi year, multi million dollar syndication deal in that same time span. J&S inherited a time slot, 8 years ago. That's it. Please continue to explain in detail how lavishly successful fucking SAM is...lol.
What do you think their fan base is. How many people would you say tune in to J&S every day. I would love to know what your stupid fucking brain fires out at this one.
Sam makes $200,000 but also has a small, niche audience. Pick a lane you dumb fuck.
I'm not denying that these guys don't do more than one show I'm simply saying it makes no sense for a guest to turn up and do radio for publicity if there is no audience, it'd be a waste of time therefore that means Jim and Sam must have some kind of audience...unless you're suggesting that these comedians are doing Jim & Sam out of the goodness of their hearts and Sirius is sending said comedians just to be nice...
Travis and Troy definitely should've received raises over the past 20 years. Six figures? Not so sure about that since their jobs are somewhat easily replaceable but you'd have to hope they'd be close to 100k at this point (75-80k). Jim and Sam are different as they are the "draws" of the show and if one of them left that'd kind of be it for Sirius having a show that appeals to whatever is left of the Sirius O&A audience.
J&S definitely nowhere near as successful as O&A but I also don't think they're really motivated to be. Jim is a 55 year old man who already has had that big successful radio run whilst Sam knows his role and will just do Jim & Sam until Jim leaves or Sirius says they don't want the show anymore.
I don't know what the audience would be, it'd be a pointless debate because you'll claim they have 5000 listeners and there is really no evidence for me to argue otherwise.
In regards to the small niche audience, plenty of people make decent money off small niche audiences especially in 2024 so I'm not sure why you're upset.