Bucking the trend, Q100 has brought in a live and local talent for middays, Rachel Ryan. The shift had been voice tracked by Kevin Quinn out of KRBE in Houston. I liked Kevin's sound, but it's nice to have someone live and local.
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Q100 Goes Live and Local in Middays
- Thread starter RoddyFreeman
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What stations are 100% voice tracked? I know Radio 105.7 is about 60% all voice tracked but wasn't sure about Power or the country stations. Are the Urban stations voice tracked? I was listening to old recordings of 99X back in the day when they were 100% live and man, live and unscripted makes all the difference in radio for ANY format.
I have always wondered, if you VT in another market do you get paid "extra" or is Voice tracking now just part of the "other assigned duties" in your contract? More importantly, do you have file a state tax return (if applicable) for the other state?
None of the stations are 100% voice tracked, but some are at least 50% voice tracked. You mentioned 105.7. Power 96-1 is live and local from 6-10AM and 4-8PM, and that's about it. The Bull is live and local in morning drive and midday, voice tracked in afternoon drive and evenings.
Automation is also around. The largest station automated during the day is 97-1 The River from 10AM-3PM. Radio One's Boom is automated except in morning and afternoon drive. OG97-9 and 99X are totally automated.
I've heard that jocks get an extra $10-15K a year to voice track for other markets. With voice tracking, of course, they can do a 4-hour shift in far less than 4 hours. I'm not qualified to answer the tax return question.
That is not necessarily true. In many cases, doing voice tracking and production are part of the base pay.
Generally, if you vice track for other stations under common ownership, you likely get paid nothing extra; even if you get a bump in pay it is usual for the total amount to be paid in one paycheck to avoid double FICA or added 1099s at year end.
Power 96.1 is also Live and Local weeknight overnights with Terry J. He's been doing overnights since Power 96.1 hit the air.
Live overnights in 2016? Cool.
Not sure what Georgia requires, but Missouri's EAS plan used to require the LP-1's (local primary) for its regions to be attended 24/7. With 94.9 being the state LP-1 for the Atlanta region and 96.1 being the NP-2 (national primary) for the region, Terry J may be live to satisfy EAS requirements.
IIRC back in the day you just had to have someone who could sign the logs and keep the station on the air (automation does this now not really required anymore) and read the teletype warnings. Now the agency dispatcher reads the message. I believe the NWS does their own break-ins now. I am not sure about US Government if there was an all out attack. There is a rumor the EAS in NYC or DC was not activated during 9 11.
If you work in Georgia you pay taxes in Geoprgia. Doesn't matter where your employer sends the results. As to pay, that's between the jock and employer. Some ask for and get extra, some track for no eatra, and one or two have declined to do tracks for no extra compensation, aka "Seeya!"
You might want to re-read the law, and get an opinion on what "attended" means.
It is a fact.
Just for the record, I remember faxing logs to a sister station 30 miles away so the stations I was at could remain attended in the overnight hours. The overnight operator would fax the next day's logs back when he left at 6:00 AM. I had had to fulfill that requirement as well a time or two.
I suppose I should have said that Terry J may be live as one way to satisfy EAS requirements. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough on that.
I'll also say that an LP-1 in Missouri let me (and the rest of the weekend staff) go after the Highway Patrol said it would take EAS origination responsibilities from us. That station remained LP-1, but the HiPo had an EAS box, and we were to monitor their radio feed. I don't think it worked very well because the station offered all of us our jobs back three months later. However, I had already been hired across town.
What year are we talking about?
2001-2004. I know unattended operation was legal at the time, but the company required us to hand off the logs to the other location that was always staffed. The person at that location monitored the transmitter, and EAS test logs were attached later. I was supposed to be out of the studios at 10:00, and I can remember a few nights of having to stay late because the fax machine at the other office was out of paper. Personally, I never understood the anality behind it (at least outside of icy weather). There were no AM's with a directional signal or more than 10,000 watts of power, and the FM transmitters were extremely reliable.
The university where I work today has three stations. The two not run by students hand their logs off to Campus Facilities in the overnight hours. We'll have to see how much longer that lasts, though. Campus Operations is facing budget cuts of $5 million and is cutting services left and right. Even janitorial services will no longer be provided to faculty and staff offices starting July 1.
The university where I work today has three stations. The two not run by students hand their logs off to Campus Facilities in the overnight hours. We'll have to see how much longer that lasts, though. Campus Operations is facing budget cuts of $5 million and is cutting services left and right. Even janitorial services will no longer be provided to faculty and staff offices starting July 1.
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