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Does WRKO even care?

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OK they canned their news dept a while back, and Metro News has made a dozen gaffs, including yesterdays
" Tennessee Titans beat the New England Patriots 59 to nothing" mistake, so now we have no news is good news at the automated from 9 till 3 WRKO...

12:30 news break today, Rush gives his standard going to break outro, the WRKO automation system plays the news sounder... followed by a minute of silence.... Metro is not there or there is some other screw up so the audio is not sent out to Burlington... then they play 3 local spots, I'm assuming off the automation system, and then they cut back to Premier's feed 2 seconds early just long enough to hear Johnny Donovan utter the last 2 words of of a spot, or a spoof, or something off the bird.

is an 8 dollar an hour board op/intern/coffee boy in training too much to ask for?
 
is an 8 dollar an hour board op/intern/coffee boy in training too much to ask for?
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Yes it may well be. The two live local shows cost in the range of $1,000,000 per year. That covers T Finneran and Howie. Word is that Feinburg makes less than 40 Grand so he's a wash, and vastly overpaid. In order to keep the lights on they have to go without a board op. So I guess to answer your question is they do care, but have no way around the automated day parts. You have to make enough to pay the contracts and then start building behind the scenes. By the by I hear an awful lot of gaffes on BZ with live newsguys pressing wrong buttons, playing canned weather when they just threw it to the sports guys etc. So don't be too hard on good old RKO.
 
lol @ suggesting its 'too expensive to be able to care'

Drudge is some guy in his boxers. last i checked 90% of the worlds newsrooms look to him for headlines

3885, 3880, and 3875 are full of people operating AM here in new england, for the sheer fun of it. im sure a few of them would be happy to add a human touch to an automated flamethrowser, and im also sure that many of them were layed off

this is really a problem with management wanting to give us even less reasons to tune into MW. lets pull out the stops on this race to the bottom
 
Carmen:

I'm insulted by the suggestion that us AM hams would wanna be a board op. :D

I run my ham station better than some commercial stations.

I'm a professional ham! ;D

Dan
 
fredo said:
By the by I hear an awful lot of gaffes on BZ with live newsguys pressing wrong buttons, playing canned weather when they just threw it to the sports guys etc. So don't be too hard on good old RKO.
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Yeah, what's up with that? This has been going on for years. They blame it on the automation (do they still use Media touch?), but you'd think things would be tighter at a major player in a major market.
Do the anchors run their own boards or is there a board tech?
 
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