The Birch Show.

All right, we will try to sort of recreate a conversation we had to have about 715 this morning with you guys that listen late in the show.

But behind the scenes, things are a mess with the Bert Show right now because Jeff's not here.

Jeff's contract expired with the radio station, and they're still in negotiations to try to get them back.

And Melissa brought up a really good point earlier this morning that this whole radio and negotiations and contract thing is probably so foreign to you guys.

So let us just sort of give you contract negotiations 101 when it comes to radio.

It's very, very similar similar to sports to be honest with

you we sign either a one or a two or a three year contract here at q100 and we don't do that as a

team they have we all have different contracts with the radio station some of us are actually

employees of cumulus others of us i'm not i'm sort of a freelancer I've got my own company and I'm not. But I still have to negotiate my own contract with Cumulus. So we all individually have contracts and Jeff's was up. It expired on the 31st. The last time he signed was for three years. And Jeff and Q100, specifically

Cumulus, have been negotiating his deal now for months and months and months, and they haven't

seen eye to eye. Jeff has taken a look at the ratings and the success that the Burt Show has

had and the money that it's brought into the radio station and says that he's worth a certain amount of money.

Cumulus is taking a look at the market and they've taken a look at what Jeff wants and has decided at this point that they don't want to pay that.

So we're at a standstill really right now.

And his contract expired. So at this point, he's not part of the Burt Show. There's been a lot of pull and a lot of push on both sides. And I don't know where this thing's going to end. You know, tomorrow morning, as I said earlier, we may come in here and all of a sudden,

corporate and Jeff have agreed on a contract and Jeff is part of the Burt Show again tomorrow morning. That might not happen tomorrow. Maybe it happens Wednesday. Maybe we walk in here

on Thursday and it's done or Friday. But I can tell you in certainty that if it's not done by

Friday, then the reality

of the situation is that we're going to have to try to replace Jeff Dollar, which is impossible

to do.

Well, and I think we made it really clear earlier, but none of us in this room want Jeff to go.

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