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While driving around on errands this evening, I was listening to Colts coverage on Hank. Twice I heard a liner for the morning show. O'Brien was promoting a ticket Colts ticket giveaway for tomorrow morning. The problem is that the tickets were for tonight's Colts Chargers game.
1070 was having similar problems for quite some time, as I posted in an earlier thread. I don't know if it ever occurred during a game, though.
I think the record at 1070 was a few hours without anyone minding the store.
There is someone at home! I know that they do have a live body during the games. Actually, they have several bodies. But, this sounds more like a programming problem and bad KILL DATES on promos. They use automation so the operator doesn't really "pull carts". They just start the automation to run the breaks. Sounds like the traffic department is to blame here!
There is someone at home! I know that they do have a live body during the games. Actually, they have several bodies. But, this sounds more like a programming problem and bad KILL DATES on promos. They use automation so the operator doesn't really "pull carts". They just start the automation to run the breaks. Sounds like the traffic department is to blame here!
Then the fool or fools who push the button needs to wake up and listen to what they are running, and if there are "several" people running the games then that's even more reason why their is no excuse for something that simple and sloppy.
I doubt traffic even knows what is on the "cart" they just plot a promo do kill dates or the producer in charge of updating the promo needs to pay more attention.
In a facility like Emmis there is little room for anyone to think, especially someone who runs a game...."What do you mean you killed a cart that was scheduled to run?"
The other factor is the "cart" in auto had a kill date, albeit an incorrect kill date. The board op heard the spot when it aired. No one listens to certified in house audio before air.
As this concerns a contest no one could win:
Vance Hartke was the reason WIFE went away but the excuse was a contest for a car. The FCC ruled the contest false, leading to license revocation. Seems that they had listeners send letters guessing a correct answer in a contest. They would save the letters unopened and allowed the letters to be opened and read....even though a correct answer had been submitted, just not opened. The correct guess was mailed and received Nov 10. They hadn't gotten to the letter on air and were still soliciting potential winners November 30. Obviously, after Nov 10 there was no way for listeners to win even though they were being told this.
I am sure that if we all ask Emmis would be happy to provide us ALL tickets to a Colts Charger and Colts Bengals game. Wait, they were announcing a possible ticket for games we can no longer experience. They should supply all listeners with away tickets all expenses paid. My family of 8 is waiting. Might make up for any Emmis stock losses for all previous employees.
Noticed they were late on a couple of legal i.d.'s as well. Play-by-play sports board-ops often have a hard time staying focused. It's sometimes a thankless job.
Yesterday morning during Mike & Mike on the AM there was a solid five minutes of two continuous audio streams - 0ne was Mike & Mike supposedly coming out of a local break, and the second was a continuous stream of local commercials, no end in sight. Not a long block, but their automation just running EVERY commercial loaded.
Seriously, went on for at LEAST five minutes, maybe more.
Even if there's no one in that control room, someone in the multi-story palace ought to be listening to their product. You couldn't have missed it, it went on so long, if anyone was listening. ???
Yesterday morning during Mike & Mike on the AM there was a solid five minutes of two continuous audio streams - 0ne was Mike & Mike supposedly coming out of a local break, and the second was a continuous stream of local commercials, no end in sight. Not a long block, but their automation just running EVERY commercial loaded.
Seriously, went on for at LEAST five minutes, maybe more.
Even if there's no one in that control room, someone in the multi-story palace ought to be listening to their product. You couldn't have missed it, it went on so long, if anyone was listening. ???
In their infant (not a typo) wisdom, they recently release their long time Chief Engineer...the only guy who fully understood the Audiovault automation system. This is probably just the start of an engineering fiasco of Biblical proportions.
Which is one reason that I will never work in 'corporate' radio again. Engineers like to work with equipment, programmers like to work with music & dreaming up things to make their station better. Sales people like to be making sales call. Management likes to have meetings...no wonder the business doesn't work well any longer.
Yesterday morning during Mike & Mike on the AM there was a solid five minutes of two continuous audio streams - 0ne was Mike & Mike supposedly coming out of a local break, and the second was a continuous stream of local commercials, no end in sight. Not a long block, but their automation just running EVERY commercial loaded.
Seriously, went on for at LEAST five minutes, maybe more.
Even if there's no one in that control room, someone in the multi-story palace ought to be listening to their product. You couldn't have missed it, it went on so long, if anyone was listening. ???
Not a sufficient excuse. What goes out over the air is radio's product. We need to make sure we have better quality control of our product - whatever it takes.
I agree with Bob OTJ that micro management, management egos, lack of direction, reports upon reports, endless mindless meetings, the new concept of the month from the top brass, and so it goes, has long since taken the teamwork heart and life out of most radio stations. That's why after well into four decades in radio I just got tired of it and retired. Many of the good radio people I know have moved on or retired. Most who remain are clueless about good radio and the value of good staff. I'm sure there are some exceptions somewhere. How very sad for radio, the listeners and advertisers.
Good engineers are very hard to come by and to blow one out to save a few bucks will cost so much more in the long run. Good professional staff at all levels is worth the payroll to keep them.
Management often looks at the staff as another expense to be cut and controlled. That's why there is so much voice tracking and juke boxing out there now.
Radio will be its own worst enemy. Too many are trying to make radio imitate the I Pod.
I can plug in my I Pod, and I get the exact songs I want, no talent to entertain, no commercials and it's free.
So for around $100 or less I can have my own perfect radio station.
Corporate management is making radio obsolete, because as boring as my I Pod is, it is sometimes better than the boring and canned crap that is on the air now.
Radio was more fun to listen to back in the 60's and 70's on AM with all of the static. That was back before anyone figured out "how it should be done"! Then, fun wasn't a dirty word no matter which side of the transmitter you were on, and against all odds it seems like most of the good stations and even some of the not so good made money.
Yesterday morning during Mike & Mike on the AM there was a solid five minutes of two continuous audio streams - 0ne was Mike & Mike supposedly coming out of a local break, and the second was a continuous stream of local commercials, no end in sight. Not a long block, but their automation just running EVERY commercial loaded.
Seriously, went on for at LEAST five minutes, maybe more.
Even if there's no one in that control room, someone in the multi-story palace ought to be listening to their product. You couldn't have missed it, it went on so long, if anyone was listening. ???
In their infant (not a typo) wisdom, they recently release their long time Chief Engineer...the only guy who fully understood the Audiovault automation system. This is probably just the start of an engineering fiasco of Biblical proportions.
I may have read a more truthful post on here at some point, but I can't remember when. Back then we actually turned the radio up...it was foreground....the center of attention. When was the last time you heard someone say "shut up...the DJ might be playing my song next"?
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