According to this December article in the Seattle Weekly, KEXP‘s host John Richards makes an annual salary of $120,000. This is a public broadcasting station. College kids with no money are drooling on lecture hall desks city wide because they spent their latte money on a Pledge drive last year that raised $375,000. On top of that, the director gave himself a $20K raise at the same time their ill fated KXOT Tacoma station was cut, due to financial worries. I guess sugar daddie Paul Allen is not putting out any more. This story sounds like the heady bubble days of 2002 when startups were going busted while installing bowling lanes with free beer waterfountains in the lobby. Flash in the pan? I hope not, I like the music they play.