Despite all he says about the Booyahs he'd jump ship for $100K more a year (private High School and College tuition are around the corner). If ESPN cares about ratings (and maybe they don't - it might be just enough to have a Chicago affiliate to sell national ads), I could see them thinking Bernstein is the reason for B&B's success and try to pounce on him.

And why wouldn't the Score let him go? They could slide Danny Mac to afternoon drive and not miss a beat. Then they could literally put anyone who could button their shirt on in mid-days and still crush ESPN, especially if they go with a national show.

It would be a bold move, and ESPN knows that Bernstein would tow the company line because he doesn't fuck around when it comes to getting paid.

Any thoughts?

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Dan isn't sending his kids to private school. He is a man of the people so he sends them to public schools that are available to 1% of the population.

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Yuck. That would be yet another reason not to listen to ESPN Radio.

Probably not. I'm sure if he moves, it will be to a national broadcast for the purposes of getting wider exposure. I would expect that he won't move until his kids are a little older and / or Terry retires.

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600k? Not a bad gig.

At some point the Chicago scene has to hit the point where he can't take it anymore. Seriously, I don't know how the guy hasn't gone nuts already. Its the same Bears crap for about ten of twelve months every year.

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Can the Score amnesty Bernstein?

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Here's why amnesty makes sense:

Bernstein probably gets about 4 weeks off every year. So let's say he works 48 weeks of the year with roughly 25 hours of airtime a week. That's 1200 hours a year on the air. Which means at $600,000 he is making $500 an hour to talk about Penn State and Lance Armstrong. Something must be done. If you can't trade him, please pay him and set the listeners free.

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The truth comes out: Bernstein makes enough money to buy the camp his charity funds.

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Unless Dan got a new contract recently & nearly doubled his salary, he & Terry were both around $300K previously.

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Both the 300K and 600K numbers sound odd because Boers and Bernstein were making around a million back in 2004

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004 ... ion-wgn-am

Even with the hype and conjecture about these salaries on this message board, I never dreamed those guys would near 1 million each respectively. Wow.

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Well it said they were making just less that 2 million. I never would have thought it either, but the overall point is if they were making close to 2 million combined back in 1160 days right when they were starting off, I can't see them at 600K (or even 1.2 million) combined when they are number 1 in their key demographic and them being 13 years into the show.

A while back 1M was not preposterous for a leading radio personality. Since people like Dahl and even Mac got put on the bench in that contract cancelling craze though no one in radio even comes close anymore.

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Fair enough.

Total spent on U.S. radio adversting in 2004 ~ $20 billion

Total spent on U.S. radio advertising in 2009 ~ $14 billion

throw in some inflation adjustment and that's quite a haircut.

Nearly $2 million for a 4 hour midday show? I don't believe it. I have a feeling the author was simply saying that since they make less than $2 million they are a bargain compared to Mike North who made over $1 million by himself.

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I would posit that ESPN is at least as responsible for B&B's ratings success as Dan Bernstein is.

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wow... $500 an hour and the producers probably make less then $25

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And if they ever ask for raises, just play a tape of Dan giggling that they don't even do show prep.

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i would feel bad if i were dan. maybe he does... but you would think he could tell management to pay him a little less and them a little more. it doesnt matter if someone else could do the producers job. some guy from a hotdog stand can do dans job.

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B&B combined have never earned close to $2 Million. I'm pretty sure that Berns is about $350K, & Boers is about $300K.

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Brick, where are you getting the 2 million for a 4 hour show from?

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From an article linked earlier in this thread from, 2004.

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Boers gets paid in chocolate flavored licorice.

Thanks must have missed that.

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Well, if it's been reported as fact in an internet posting, it must be true.....

Guaranteed he's not making that kind of coin.

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