"In many cases, the morning personality is the key for the purposes of the station's ratings and economic success. I've found that just holding this prestigious position can be its own reward. I always hire on-air people who could work any shift. I start new hires on the least prestigious shift (all nights or evenings) promoting them to middays, afternoons, and mornings as those ahead of them leave. I refuse to have a pay scale that tells some on-air people that they are less important than others."

"If you're with the majority in this business, you don't agree. If you plan differential pay scales based on the perceived value of each shift, then for heaven's sake be consistent on what the pay differential is. Give current staff every opportunity to apply for the better-paid airshifts as they become available, so that your people perceive the pay differential to represent the prestige and value of the time period and not themselves as individuals. The differential then provides an incentive to stay with the station and strive for promotions to better-paying positions. You can't build a team if everybody resents everybody else. This leads to cliques and destructive personnel situations...

A common airstaff scheduling procedure in radio is the six-day week. Employees are assigned to work six and half hours a day, six days a week to ensure that some full-time airstaff work on the weekend and to reduce the expenditure and reliance on part-timers. A union would generally demand five work days per week as the only acceptable full-time approach, which would require overtime pay for a sixth day. Many nonunion stations have chosen to give the sixth day off on a fixed pattern- every second, third, or fourth weekend day off, in response to the airstaff's desire to have a full weekend off. Be aware that if you do this and then need to omit the regular weekend day off occasionally because of vacations or illness, labor law might require overtime pay for that 'normal day off' if it is worked after all, even if the individual works fewer than forty hours per week."

This is what Eric said.