KRDO

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

This is probably one of the most unprofessional newsrooms I have ever worked with. Employees are great, but Mike Rausch is a fool, and not to be trusted.

Our new Executive Producer was fired from his previous job as News Director of WKRN for abusing his employees and showing them pornography on station computers.

Why did we hire him!?!?!?

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

The new Executive Producer at KRDO, Matthew Zelkind, was fired from WKRN in Nashville for abusive management practices and for showing pornography to station employees.

This is the best KRDO can do?? The fact that KRDO didn't do a proper background investigation on Mr. Zelkind before his hiring shows how desperate they were to hire someone. Very unprofessional and absolutely disgusting!

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

I enjoyed my time on the air at this station, but it was also very difficult off the air due to the toxic work environment. Mike Rausch pins employees against one another and it seemed to me over the course of the three years working for him that he was intentionally making things tense. Why? I think he is obsessed with being the center of attention and he makes that very evident in the way he treats other employees. Futhermore, he ran out other workers that he did not personally bring on, giving him absolute power over everyone. I do not recommend working here.

It is trash.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

KRDO is not a good place to work. I have had the honor and pleasure of working with many great people in this industry and out of all of them, Mike Rausch is single-handedly the cockiest of them all, a self-described professional who claims to be one of the nation's most successful TV news executives. If you are talking about multiple ethics and FAA violations, then Rausch is your guy. If you want to be in a newsroom that is free of gossip and all that other crap that prevents a newsroom from getting work done, I would suggest finding another place to work. The Assistant N.D. is a yes man to him, so she won't be much of a help to you, either. There's a reason why there are so many job openings here -- no one wants to stay. Be careful before you agree to a contract. That's all I have to tell you. But don't get me wrong, there are amazing people here. But if you want to make friends, there's an APP for that. There's no reason for you to waste your time. Also, if you apply for an Associate Producer position...just be aware that it's not a permanent position -- you will likely get laid off. They won't tell you that during the interview, so just be aware.

I hear the radio end is much more organized and professional, but the television side is a mess. Please do not waste your time. I have seen so many diligent, hard-working employees come to work crying because they are so sick and tired of being belittled at work by Rausch. A line has been crossed if your workers don't even want to get out of bed in the morning.

The news meetings in the morning help in some ways, but ultimately they are kind of a waste of time, because Rausch is going to do what he wants anyway.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

The co-workers are great here, but Mike Rausch is a piece of garbage. Morale is so low that some reporters became physically ill because they didn’t want to come to work. A line has been crossed.

Don’t work here. We haven’t even been able to bring on a new EP despite the fact our previous one left months ago. Avoid this storm. Find somewhere that’s sunnier.