[zaga_fan]

I think this decision is from Anna Sheppard telling Ricky Thacker what to do but I think Ricky is in agreement with his boss for sure.

But to be devil’s advocate for a moment.

Why can WMDJ not afford to pay the $1,500 fee it now has been reduced to? They have some big sponsors they I guarantee pay them a good amount of money to broadcast with their names advertised on it.

This is coming from someone in the media but someone who isn't necessarily in-the-know when it comes to WMDJ's financials.
Every radio station does this differently, but I can promise you when radio stations started streaming games live they do not make a ton more money but end up spending more money because now they have to pay people to run the camera and the video broadcast.

So they don't make much more money, they have to pay more people to do it, and then the schools ask them to pay a fee (which they are already paying a KHSAA fee to do postseason games to begin with).

There's a misconception going around that radio stations make out like Scrooge McDuck swimming around in all their big sponsor money and cost schools thousands and thousands of dollars at the gate. It's simply not true. Once the radio stations pay for the man hours spent on these games they don't make a ton of money and some of them do the postseason games as a public service and lose money.

Would love to see everyone pick one night and just listen to the games on the radio in protest of this nonsense.