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I haven't actually looked at why this happened, but Judith Porter was on WFAE at least an hour early last week. I say at least because I turn the radio on around 9 so it'll be on for "Wait! Wait!" at 10, and that's when Judith Porter used to come on. There would be one person before the top of the hour news, and then she would come on after the news and during breaks.

Could be they doubled the time she spends.

very good likely hood that at least some of that is voicetracked
 
This is probably just a glitch rather than a reduction in service, but the RDS display for WNCH Norwich, VT, the local Vermont Public Classical affiliate, has been stuck on the same composer and piece for the past three days. Could the uncertainty over funding be keeping VT Public from fixing this issue?
 
This is probably just a glitch rather than a reduction in service, but the RDS display for WNCH Norwich, VT, the local Vermont Public Classical affiliate, has been stuck on the same composer and piece for the past three days. Could the uncertainty over funding be keeping VT Public from fixing this issue?
Depends if the affiliate has a local studio/office. If that doesn't exist now (or never has) I probably wouldn't see it as any real immediate priority for them.

The uncertainty over funding may have something to do with it. However, it could also be across the entire VPC chain.

That would seem to me a more likely scenario if it's all centrally programmed and one even potentially easier to fix than thought on some systems, depending on how deep one is on Current Song/Text RDS log files in whatever system. The problem often is that the sheer size of the manuals and associated learning curves are scary AF to even professional radio people.

This is why IT skills are often more prized than actual talent these days. Everything's on computers. So everything can get complicated. To Final Boss Level (Dealing with hackers, ransomware.)

And like I said in another post; If you just got advanced tech skills, Foot, meet Door.....
 
"Let's get back to 'Weekend Edition'".

"I'm (unpronounceable) with these headlines." Giles Snyder had the day off.

Normally after the first quote Scott Simon or whoever does the talking. So that first quote could be voice tracked. She DID say 9:18 but that would likely be true.
 
"Let's get back to 'Weekend Edition'".

"I'm (unpronounceable) with these headlines." Giles Snyder had the day off.

Normally after the first quote Scott Simon or whoever does the talking. So that first quote could be voice tracked. She DID say 9:18 but that would likely be true.

NPR breaks/breakaways, windows for local content... are all hard timed.. theyre at an exact time every day
 
NPR breaks/breakaways, windows for local content... are all hard timed.. theyre at an exact time every day
I'm unfamiliar with how that system works, so can affiliates record those segments and reassemble them on their own system?
 
I'm unfamiliar with how that system works, so can affiliates record those segments and reassemble them on their own system?

NPR feeds stuff in two ways… live off the bird and file delivery.

The breaks on the live satellite are hard times. They hit at exactly the same time, every day.. like all things considered… I used to take a local cutaway at 548 every weekday.

Or they have content depot file delivery…. Files come off the satellite pushed directly to your satellite receiver and get pushed to your automation and auto ingested and each file goes to a particular cart number in automation… and you assemble those show segments how you want.

The network fills local cutaways with music… and the shows are segmented in such a way you can take longer breaks if you want sometimes.

The file delivery comes with the full music as a separate segment that you can incorporate or not

We don’t take local cutaways here
 


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