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Date Posted: 14:02:08 04/13/02 Sat
Author: scott s.
Subject: Re: Radio Stations that screw up the show
In reply to: Aaron McCracken 's message, "Re: Radio Stations that screw up the show" on 12:19:30 04/13/02 Sat

Let me give you some insight here, having been on the radio station side of things....

first off, board ops usually are "starting out" positions...I know, I was one for more then a few years. if you want to go somewhere further, usually you tend to pay attention to details, but not always. As it's the weekend, and you are doing live remote cut in's you have to worry about phoners getting them up on the board, and other technical matters, which can make it a real hectic rats nest behind the scenes....things can screw up and usually do (if you only knew some of the hair raising things I had to do pretty fast to make everything sound tight on air...)

second, often a board op can be a intern, bcast student, or a family member of a station employee who needs a couple bucks, so they pay the op just at or above minimum wage. the person isn't necessarily is a fan of the show, and is probably bored to tears because it's a button pushing job, and in some cases takes off out of MCR for a drink, smoke etc...and just watches his time enough to get back and push the buttons for the spots, and back to it. I know, it's no excuse to screw up the show, I'm the first to admit that, but you pay low pay, guess what happens? no worse then people who comment about bad service at a fast food joint.

Finally, some stations eliminate board ops entirely by putting the show into the station's automation system (by ripping the CDR's into the HD, or dubbing them real time...I've done that myself) into the system. assumingly, if you use the same audio files, with the same #'s and schedule it properly with whatever music scheduling software (be it power gold or selector or other!) and erase and reuse the files every week there should be no problems,
but that doesn't always happen. I remember one station running automated weather during christmas that mentioned easter weekend. what happened was that a miscommunication had the announcer record the weather into the wrong file, while the right file was scheduled by programming, but had not been used since last easter and wasn't erased....REALLY sounded good on air.

any station running shows, SHOULD run them right...but that's not always reality. be it what I have mentioned already, or even a new show not arriving in time, so they rerun the old show (the reality in some cases!) problems DO happen at the station level, and they will never go away.

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Re: Radio Stations that screw up the show -- Nelson J. Gomez, 20:09:08 04/14/02 Sun