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If you're considering a commission-only sales position here, I recommend weighing your decision carefully. While the role offers opportunities for high earnings, there are significant challenges within the management structure and overall workplace culture that deserve consideration.

Management tends to closely monitor employee activity, which can feel inconsistent—especially when flexibility is extended to leadership but not to team members. For instance, requests for time off due to personal or family needs are often met with pushback, even though this is a commission-based role. The limited PTO and lack of accommodations for unexpected life events make it difficult to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

The communication style within the team can be difficult. Feedback is often delivered in public settings, which may feel discouraging rather than constructive. There is little opportunity for open dialogue, and responses to questions or concerns are sometimes perceived as dismissive.

Support for professional development is minimal, and there is a noticeable absence of structured training or coaching. Employees who face challenges are not always given the tools or time needed to succeed, which can contribute to high turnover and low morale.

Concerns about leadership behavior have also been raised, both internally and externally. In my experience, some team members—particularly those not favored by management—may feel unsupported and undervalued.

Ultimately, while the job may offer financial potential for some, I found the work environment to be highly stressful, with a culture that prioritizes control over collaboration. I hope future changes will foster a more positive, inclusive, and growth-oriented atmosphere for everyone.

I am a new manager at Alpha, and so far, it's a great place to work. Great work-life balance. Along with broadcasting, they promote concerts and events. Employees get free tickets. I was able to see Dave Chappelle and Billie Eilish along with free rides and the Rose Festival. They also sponsor employee happy hour, it's been a little more sporadic in covid/remote work times, but it has been coming back little by little. 

They have also allowed people to go full remote if their role allows it. There was no pushback from management on office culture and the need to come in. Even when covid is no longer in the rearview mirror, that will not change. Regardless of the working atmosphere, remote, hybrid, or full office management has proven to be engaged with employees. HR has been very effective in ensuring they are welcomed as a new employee. 

My only real complaint would be with the benefits. The charges for health insurance could be a little better, the employee contribution is about average, but the high deductible plan is a bit higher than other employers. Most plans have a deductible of around 1800; Alpha is around 2500 if memory serves. The PPO plan is in line with other companies or close to it.  The 401K match is based on year-end company performance; it would be nice to see it funded each paycheck as part of employee comp and not when the company confirms profitability. Invest up front and watch the company retain talent and beat profitability expectations. 

Overall, I am proud to be an Alpha employee. The job market is tight at the moment, but Alpha is keeping people where other employers are not. That is a good sign of employee satisfaction. 




I spent 18 years with this radio station and it's group of radio stations with a revolving door of five different Owners. I loved what I did as an AE. When owned by NextMedia starting in 2001, AEs were trained to be Marketing Consultants through the Radio Advertising Bureau. Still, it was hard to sell in suburban Chicago. The station(s) were too small for the big businesses and too big for the small businesses. There were a number of non-radio digital services over the years we were trained on that could help businesses grow. Again very interesting and fun. When AphaMedia took over in February 2016, the overall atmosphere changed to one of stress. Looking to go public, everything and everyone was under a microscope, probably still are. AEs had to spend time filling out forms of where they were and who they saw as billing wasn't where corporate wanted it to be. They thought, wrongfully, it would be beneficial for AEs to spend time with micro-management form-filling rather than spending that time working on helping businesses. Management was unrealistic on how much time was needed to jump through the hoops they set up for us.

In Louisville you can be expected to perform at least 2 jobs if not more while working with a salary for one. Communication from management isn't great. Successes and exemplary efforts often go unacknowledged while mistakes are addressed in a timely manner. Necessary materials and resources aren't always given in a timely manner. Lots of red tape and no's. Raises are rare. 

Positives: 
It can be a fun place to work depending on the position. Many of the people there are great and willing to help. If you have little to no experience it can be a great place to start as they are often willing to take a chance on new people. You get free lunch once a month. There are lots of changes being made so there are opportunities to be had.

As Alpha recently acquired this market it's hard to put much of this on Alpha. There have been some positives changes since the acquisition but much of what is wrong has been allowed to stay from previous companies.

I chose to work part-time on weekends, generally 1 or 2 days per week, and on holidays. I have learned how to manage the Golden State Warriors broadcasts, Sound Forge, RCS and other radio programming software necessary for broadcast.  I serve as a traffic and weather reporter for 3 individual and separate radio stations in the East Bay, broadcasting reports twice an hour for each radio station.  The most enjoyable part of this position is that I can serve the communities and Bay Area counties I hold so very dear.  It is my way to give back to the community in which I grew up, by offering important necessary information to assist listeners maneuver through and make decisions about their day.

Very supportive work environment.  A very close sales team  and I'm very close still with some of my fellow team members. The only thing I didn't like was game day where each of us had to do a list of 200 cold call prospects. We had 8 account executives so 200 each was 1600 cold calls each game day. There are only 8000 businesses in Fredericksburg so after a few  weeks we had saturated the business community but game day continued.

The days to work remotely while being productive and on schedule is a miracle. Meeting face to face or virtually with new businesses to help achieve their goals with a comfortable, natural, funnel system we can rinse and repeat every time. If you're social, self starter, motivated, ambitious, creative, adaptable, this is the job for you. You collaborate with a whole national team that is always willing to support you. They treat the employees just as good as the clients. It's an easygoing workplace that gives you room to breathe as long as you're producing your numbers, up to date with reporting, and just doing what you're supposed to. 10/10

I came to work for Alpha a few years ago from another radio station expecting great things. Alpha claims to be a family company that cares about the employee. That couldn't be any further from the truth. They care about money and how important the people at the top can act. Basically everyone in this market, and other markets owned by Alpha, hate it here. We are all just using this as a stepping stone to something better. It's a shame because this company could be a powerhouse with massive employee retention - but they choose to be stingy and greedy and to hold on to inadequate local managers who should be in the restaurant business instead.

While the terms "live and local:" get thrown around quite a bit, the company seems to be heading more towards the direction of a corporate powerhouse similar to the likes of clear channel.  This can be a positive or a negative depending on perspective.  Little to no increase in pay, no cost of living raises.  Insurance options but very poor coverage.  However, local management are available and do exercise a reasonable open door policy.

Corporate shoves events down our throats to keep us satisfied while they also screw us on our benefits package and pay... Some people are making money off Alpha Media but it's not the employees. Corporate are totally unprofessional and the most important parts of the company are understaffed and inexperienced. Very high turnover. More divesting than growing. Upper management are totally amoral and don't care at all about the health and welfare of the people under them.

You are totally expendable. They will underpay and the benefits will get worse. DON'T WORK HERE.

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Integration consultant 1 salary reported	$3,500 per month
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