Anyone hear the major screw up on Spiders show this morning ?? His VT breaks were in fast forward mode..literally sounded like the chipmonks on 78 rpm..not once..but every break I heard from 10AM until about 10:45 when I had to leave my truck...The spots, voicers etc were fine from the station feed..but his tracks were impossible to understand...apparently..no one was at home on the board at ground zero to notice or correct it..No substitute for live talent..No excuse for this to happen in any size market..none...
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I heard the very first one, shortly after the 10:00 a.m. break. I found it funny at first, until I realized that this was NOT intentional! I missed the rest, just assumed that someone corrected it. Also heard a McGill VT play at the wrong time last week. Heard that quite a bit last year, but thought that they had gotten the bugs worked out by now.
I'm with you..first time ..thought it some sort of attempt at humor..but then as the hour progressed..I thought.."RUHH RO"...not good..don't know when or if it was corrected..as I didn't listen after I got out of my company truck..kept thinking..how can they not know this is happening..surely SOMEONE at the studio either in Nashville or the home office has to be listening...pretty weak management somewhere along the line..
I heard it too. Hilarious! It was working right by noon.
A couple of days ago, I heard a drop-in from Keith Bilbrey's show around noon. It went out of his drop into the next regular song. Then yesterday afternoon, there was a contest winner drop-in by McGill about 4:30 or so that went south. To begin with, he sounded like he was in a phone booth. Then about midway into his VT, a spot started playing over top of him. Both his track and the spot continued to play until his VT ended.
A couple of days ago, I heard a drop-in from Keith Bilbrey's show around noon. It went out of his drop into the next regular song. Then yesterday afternoon, there was a contest winner drop-in by McGill about 4:30 or so that went south. To begin with, he sounded like he was in a phone booth. Then about midway into his VT, a spot started playing over top of him. Both his track and the spot continued to play until his VT ended.
It's just a new innovation to get through the breaks faster, Pat! Most stations speed the music up 3 percent...now you just speed the whole station up. Still not better than helium, but Hippie just took you on a psychedelic ride... Next thing up...skipping and popping records and DJs.
I heard that one, too. It sounded to me like McGill was in an echo chamber, or at least off-mic.kr0nic said:
It is very easy to solicit a ninth caller in a VT because you can record those an hour or two ahead of time. But playing back the winner's phone call is going to be a bit problematic because you can't record those ahead of time!
When I first saw this topic I thought the former Y-107 Brothers Harrison (Hawk, Gator) had another sibling in radio.
More than enough talent on this board to ad lib them..and not repeat the same line 3 times per break..we all know it's the "all new'..(actually a year old) hippie radio..and that it's 'radio for "baby boomahs"...Can someone that is still working in radio tell me what does one get paid for VT a show ??
I cant listen to Spider. Hes terrible.
Wind said:
Is that for the one hour it takes to record all the liners or the four hours of the show?
No matter what the pay, they would be better off, in my opinion, to just put it on auto pilot than have Spider say "(insert artist name) made it happen on (insert song name) here on the all-new Hippie Radio 94 point 5. Your place for baby boomers." all shift long.
deltas69 said:Barnaby...I'd argue if I could :-\ I'm guessing he's using a hand full of cue cards that were provided by the station..and inserts the appropriate song title..and artist...Damn Nashville...you used to have some great radio stations....
Somebody bought them.
I used to listen to Spiderman at night on 15LAC. When I heard he was returning I thought "This could be good". Then I heard him on the air... And, when did he drop the "man" from Spiderman?
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