Another Jock Gone!!

[charles123]

Mary Rose exits KVIL, according to www.allaccess.com

 

[idiggraves]

Wow...another victim of "budget cuts", huh? I've worked with Mary Rose in the past and found her to be an extraordinary talent and a wonderful person that put up with waaayyy too much crap from the revolving door of companies/bosses in her 14 years there. ON TO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS, MR!

 

[gk779]

I know. Mary is a class act. I do believe she's doing some part time over at one of the ABC Network formats.

 

[ICanSeeItNow]

Automation strikes again!!! Cindi B gets blown out on the other 4 overnights. Good luck MR I'm sure you will bounce back! ;D

 

[dancehaus]

I worked with her for over 5 years. I can say for sure that she is going to land on her feet. There are qualified jocks and then there is Mary Rose.
CBS may yet live to regret following the others into the pit of dispair which is automation.

 

[MikeShannon914]

I understand that longtime KLUV overnighter Bob Gomez (who's likely shaking in his boots right now) is having to babysit the other stations, running upstairs between songs to make sure the automation is doing its thing at Jack, Movin' and KVIL. I suggest that he go and buy some baby monitors and set up the receivers near the KLUV board. Maybe the KRLD overnight crew could help (or are they voicetracked now as well?)

Why doesn't KVIL just rerun Delilah on overnights? Surely there's plenty of lovelorn gals out there with insomnia...and what better way to fall asleep FAST than with that syrupy, saccharine show?

And KVIL is now sending out the same listener survey as Movin', baiting everyone on a format change to Americana. Hey, might be a possibility for 56kW 107.5 once they move Movin' to 105.3. (Is the 107.5 tower still at the burned-out KNOK building on Kimbo Road?)

Gotta hand it to the local CBS cluster, for holding out on automation longer than everyone else. Makes me wonder if it's a test to see if it would work seamlessly in other dayparts. Then the whole cluster can eventually be a ghost town at any given hour, much like the hallways at CC. :'(

 

[NealH]

I had the pleasure of working with Mary for a year. She was the unfortunate soul who had to sit-in on my audition. After 4 years off the air I was a sweaty, nervous wreck on the board, but she kept me calmed down.

Speaking of automation, are they still running AudioVault on c. 2000 PCs running Windoze 98 or did they finally upgrade? It's really sad when the Internet PCs in the studio are newer than the automation equipment.

 

[BBontheRadio]

After 4 years off the air I was a sweaty, nervous wreck on the board, but she kept me calmed down.

How is that different from any other day for you, Neal?

Speaking of automation, are they still running AudioVault on c. 2000 PCs running Windoze 98 or did they finally upgrade? It's really sad when the Internet PCs in the studio are newer than the automation equipment.

We upgraded to Windows for Workgroups 3.11. They say it's the next big thing!

 

[Musicradio]

I have known Mary Rose since the mid 80's, working with her in Tyler.
We've kept in touch over the years as we both made our moves all
over the country.

She's a good friend of mine. She sent me a note this afternoon telling
me that they had let her go and would use automation for her shift.

I know things are changing all the time in radio, in large and other markets
as well. It's all about the bottom line -- mostly for those in the big offices,
not in the on-air studio. But -- it's sad when your friends are losing their jobs.

Mary Rose once told me that Ron Chapman had mentioned to her that if she
ever needed his help as a reference, he would be there. I hope he and all of
her friends in Dallas will help her find a place back on the airwaves there.

Good luck, Mary Rose.

 

[NealH]

After 4 years off the air I was a sweaty, nervous wreck on the board, but she kept me calmed down.

How is that different from any other day for you, Neal?

I'm usually just sweaty, not nervous ;-)

Speaking of automation, are they still running AudioVault on c. 2000 PCs running Windoze 98 or did they finally upgrade? It's really sad when the Internet PCs in the studio are newer than the automation equipment.

We upgraded to Windows for Workgroups 3.11. They say it's the next big thing!

You laugh but when I was doing tech support in '03-'04 some guy from some podunk station in the middle of nowhere called and he "couldn't find the merge program." When I asked him to hit the Start button he said "I don't see a start, only File, Options, Settings..." It was WFW 3.11. I had to troubleshoot his problems without a computer running 3.11 and I couldn't remember what the File Manager was called. It's still out there, running on some traffic computer in the middle of West Virginia with a 40 meg hard drive and a 5.25 inch floppy drive.

 

[BBontheRadio]

I'm usually just sweaty, not nervous ;-)

ROFL!

You laugh but when I was doing tech support in '03-'04 some guy from some podunk station in the middle of nowhere called and he "couldn't find the merge program." When I asked him to hit the Start button he said "I don't see a start, only File, Options, Settings..." It was WFW 3.11. I had to troubleshoot his problems without a computer running 3.11 and I couldn't remember what the File Manager was called. It's still out there, running on some traffic computer in the middle of West Virginia with a 40 meg hard drive and a 5.25 inch floppy drive.

It was a decent little OS, but, yes, it would be tough to troubleshoot an issue blind like that!

Remember when a 40 MB hard drive was more space than we could ever fill?

Seriously, when they built the new studio on 10 they upgraded the AV PCs and OSs. They only crash seldomly now.

 

[Kent]

You laugh but when I was doing tech support in '03-'04 some guy from some podunk station in the middle of nowhere called and he "couldn't find the merge program." When I asked him to hit the Start button he said "I don't see a start, only File, Options, Settings..." It was WFW 3.11. I had to troubleshoot his problems without a computer running 3.11 and I couldn't remember what the File Manager was called. It's still out there, running on some traffic computer in the middle of West Virginia with a 40 meg hard drive and a 5.25 inch floppy drive.

One of the stations I work for still runs a DCS and a DOS system! The sad part is that it's incredibly reliable, though you have to shut the DCS down twice-a-year in order to adjust for Daylight Saving Time.

By the way, I did telephone tech support a year ago, and I still remember telling a user of our website, "Go ahead and get on your desktop." Well, he actually sat on the desk and told me it wasn't making any difference!!

 

[NealH]

It was a decent little OS, but, yes, it would be tough to troubleshoot an issue blind like that!

Remember when a 40 MB hard drive was more space than we could ever fill?

Seriously, when they built the new studio on 10 they upgraded the AV PCs and OSs. They only crash seldomly now.

Yeah and there was also a time when short-sighted hardware wonks figured 640k of RAM is all we'd ever need, too.

One of the stations I work for still runs a DCS and a DOS system! The sad part is that it's incredibly reliable, though you have to shut the DCS down twice-a-year in order to adjust for Daylight Saving Time.

By the way, I did telephone tech support a year ago, and I still remember telling a user of our website, "Go ahead and get on your desktop." Well, he actually sat on the desk and told me it wasn't making any difference!!

Ahh the good old DCS. The first PC-based automation I ever saw was a DCS paired with TM Century's Ultimate Digital Studio - featuring 3 CD jukeboxes. My grandmother could've found and loaded the CDs faster than that monstrosity. It looked cool, though.

 

[scottythecynic]

Wow, I too like Mary and will give her a call. Sad that this automatic crap is taking its toll on good people - or make that people in general.

 

[Musicradio]

I spoke to Mary Rose a couple of days ago -- she's still looking.

She told me to tell everyone a big thank you for all the kind things you've
said about her.