Atlantic Coast Radio, LLC

Atlantic Coast Radio EEO Public File 2023 PDF

A.  Employment Unit Covered:
Atlantic Coast Radio, LLC. 779 Warren Avenue, Portland, Maine 04103

*  WPEI-FM, Saco, Maine
*  WPPI-FM, Topsham, Maine
*  WJJB-FM, Gray, Maine
*  WLOB-AM, Portland, Maine
*  WRED-AM, Westbrook, Maine
*  W263BZ, Portland, Maine
*  W223BH, Portland, Maine
*  W252EI, Portland, Maine

B.  Reporting Period:
November 20, 2022 to November 19, 2023

C.  Full-time Vacancies Filled During Reporting Period:
NONE.

D.  Two Initiatives Were Conducted During The Reporting Period:
An August search for a sports radio account executive a virtual November Job Fair on November 8. Participants had to schedule appointments with sales manager Morgan Grumbach. General manager Jon Van Hoogenstyn conducted the interviews with him. Recap of the two initiatives follow.

E. Conducted During The Reporting Period:
For the second consecutive year, our WJJB afternoon team hosted an intern this past summer. He was a Merrimack College student athlete who is interested in sports radio.

F. EEO Community Contact.
Announcements were run in June and December. Mailers were also sent out to the community contact list announcing the initiatives.

August 2023 Search For An Account Executive For WJJB/WPEI 

Commencing on July 31, WJJB ran 35 thirty-second spots weekly on WJJB, WPEI, and WLOB looking for an account executive. We requested resume be emailed to sales manager Morgan Grumbach. In addition, we ran a Craigslist advertisement and sent out a notification to our community contact list.

We received nine resumes from the advertising. Six responded from the radio ads and three from the online advertising. Morgan conducted five preliminary phone interviews. We decided three applicants merited an in-person interview. One person was a no-show. We had two candidates that we interviewed twice, the second time with Morgan and GM Jon Van Hoogenstyn. We determined that the compensation package that they had with their current employer exceeded what we were prepared to spend for someone without prior media sales experience.