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......Of Speech Impediments at 8pm on BeeZee!
Almost wants to have Leykis back! đź‘Ť
Almost wants to have Leykis back! đź‘Ť
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Exactly to whom are you referring here? I'd be more inclined to blame that infamous iHeart automation system that "BeeZee" now has to use, and which, every so often, just confounds the poor on-air host. IMHO, it does not appear to be as user-friendly as what WBZ had before.
I don't recall (Tom) Leykis on "BeeZee"; 'RKO, yes, but not WBZ. If you did hear him there, when was this?
Huh? It's an automation system. A means to an end. People make it sound like they have to stand on their head and juggle chainsaws while reciting pi to the 32nd number past the decimal point to make it function. That's simply not the case. As I had mentioned in other posts, there's a learning curve with going from one automation system to another, but the negative tone in which you call it the infamous iHeart automation system is a head scratcher; but since it's used by iHeart, it's automatically bad, right? Though all are different, each automation system is as user friendly as the other, once you've used it for a while.
It's like producing a spot on Adobe Audition vs. ProTools; one may have other features the other doesn't and vice versa. I prefer ProTools because I've been using it for so long, but I know I can accomplish close to the same work if I used Adobe. Same philosophy with automation systems, even the "infamous" NexGen.
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Ah, how long has iHeart had WKOX (okay, okay, did...have) with their world class automation and it still screws up to this day?
Even more recent and direct: The other night on Jay Talkin', a woman started babbling on and Jay didnʼt say anything and she paused for a good 5-10 sec. (dead air), waiting for him to reply, then muttered “did he hang up on me”, paused, muttered some more, then 10-15 sec. of more dead air, then suddenly Jay came back on, like he had cut someone off with the deleted delay cut-in, “Iʼd like to hear what people had to eat...” (or something like that), then a couple of minutes later apologized to that caller, saying he didnʼt hang up on her, that the system had crashed!
Now what if that was some wise-acre on the line who used that out-of-control moment and started swearing up a storm, throwing out F-bombs—or worse—left and right?
Now what if that was some wise-acre on the line who used that out-of-control moment and started swearing up a storm, throwing out F-bombs—or worse—left and right?
Conversely, there was the night that Larry King fell asleep on the air. It wasn't the automation. It was him.
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Can we get a round table with Tim Cahill, Bill Evans, Ray Flynn with special guest "Mush Mouth from the Cosby cartoons!?
Maybe they can channel the ghost of Menino and make it
"all speech impediments, all the time"!
Great radio.
Ok, now I get your point. BTW, you forgot Marty Walsh.
Only decent sub for Dan Rea was Todd Feinburg, but he won’t be coming through the door anytime soon unless iHeart manages to take over WTIC, Hartford.
As for the NexGen or whatever, Uncle Kambridge expressed my sentiments quite accurately.
Ah, how long has iHeart had WKOX (okay, okay, did...have) with their world class automation and it still screws up to this day?
Automation does not “screw up.” It does, very efficiently, exactly what it’s told to do. If there are on-air mistakes attributable to something the automation did, then its human “keepers” are to blame. It’s also patently stupid to claim that the system is defective based solely on one example, when the same system is in use at hundreds of stations every day where it performs flawlessly.
Even more recent and direct: The other night on Jay Talkin', a woman started babbling on and Jay didnʼt say anything and she paused for a good 5-10 sec. (dead air), waiting for him to reply, then muttered “did he hang up on me”, paused, muttered some more, then 10-15 sec. of more dead air, then suddenly Jay came back on, like he had cut someone off with the deleted delay cut-in, “Iʼd like to hear what people had to eat...” (or something like that), then a couple of minutes later apologized to that caller, saying he didnʼt hang up on her, that the system had crashed!
Now what if that was some wise-acre on the line who used that out-of-control moment and started swearing up a storm, throwing out F-bombs—or worse—left and right?
Since you weren’t in the room, you have no idea what actually happened. You have no way of knowing whether “the system crashed” was a quick explanation for something else which would have taken too long to explain in detail, or whether it was an actual reference to some system that did actually crash.
This is starting to resemble the baseless slamming of iHeart over the situation years ago in Minot SD. Let’s try for a few more facts and less bashing of inanimate objects based on isolated incidents.
Ah, how long has iHeart had WKOX (okay, okay, did...have) with their world class automation and it still screws up to this day?
Even more recent and direct: The other night on Jay Talkin', a woman started babbling on and Jay didnʼt say anything and she paused for a good 5-10 sec. (dead air), waiting for him to reply, then muttered “did he hang up on me”, paused, muttered some more, then 10-15 sec. of more dead air, then suddenly Jay came back on, like he had cut someone off with the deleted delay cut-in, “Iʼd like to hear what people had to eat...” (or something like that), then a couple of minutes later apologized to that caller, saying he didnʼt hang up on her, that the system had crashed!
Now what if that was some wise-acre on the line who used that out-of-control moment and started swearing up a storm, throwing out F-bombs—or worse—left and right?
And if a crash did occur, guess what, computers do that from time-to-time. Records and CD's used to skip, carts would go past their cue points and computers crash. There are flaws in every content delivery method.
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