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Ethics question

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grantchester

What Would You Do:
If you knew that your station operator wasn't taking meter readings, but was falsifying them at the end of his shift?
If you saw your news staff lift stories directly from a newspaper or other source, without attribution?
If your talk show host made statements that he knew to be untrue?
If your sales department promised listenership levels that they knew they were not delivering?
If your management required staff to work overtime, without paying time and a half?
What would you do?
 
grantchester said:
What would you do?
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Thank the Lord that I had a job at a typical radio station.
 
You left out "double billing", not airing 'make-goods' because of spot overload and covering network spots with locals due to lower revenue from the network spots. This is only a short list you will have seen if you stay in the business long enough and that's when there were a lot more rules and the FCC was much tougher.

What do you do? Live with it and keep your job and learn so that you never do the same. OR tell, see the station (maybe) get a slap on the wrist and have trouble working in the business again... Operators who pull this type of crap eventually get bitten in the butt by their mis- deeds.

It's good that you ask because you realize it's wrong. If you love radio you know it is wrong!

I once worked with a guy who never made readings but, by holding three pens together, could make three sets of readings at once. He got caught doing it when Harlan Apple (old FCC inspector) was watching from another studio.
 
grantchester said:
What Would You Do:
If you knew that your station operator wasn't taking meter readings, but was falsifying them at the end of his shift?
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Phew! I saw this line and thought for a second you might be talking about me...
 
grantchester said:
What Would You Do:
If you knew that your station operator wasn't taking meter readings, but was falsifying them at the end of his shift?
If you saw your news staff lift stories directly from a newspaper or other source, without attribution?
If your talk show host made statements that he knew to be untrue?
If your sales department promised listenership levels that they knew they were not delivering?
If your management required staff to work overtime, without paying time and a half?
What would you do?
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Just sounds like another day at the CBS Radio cluster in Dallas to me!

BUST 'EM!
 
FlyOnWall said:
grantchester said:
What Would You Do:
If you knew that your station operator wasn't taking meter readings, but was falsifying them at the end of his shift?
If you saw your news staff lift stories directly from a newspaper or other source, without attribution?
If your talk show host made statements that he knew to be untrue?
If your sales department promised listenership levels that they knew they were not delivering?
If your management required staff to work overtime, without paying time and a half?
What would you do?
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Just sounds like another day at the CBS Radio cluster in Dallas to me!

BUST 'EM!
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For the most part, yeah it's CBS...but you also tack on the gsm "drinking" his lunch, then going on a "sales call" for the rest of the afternoon (trying to squeeze in 18 holes before dinner), and you'd definitely have CBS! Of course I kid...right Steve Sullivan?
 
DFW_Radio_2000 said:
FlyOnWall said:
grantchester said:
What Would You Do:
If you knew that your station operator wasn't taking meter readings, but was falsifying them at the end of his shift?
If you saw your news staff lift stories directly from a newspaper or other source, without attribution?
If your talk show host made statements that he knew to be untrue?
If your sales department promised listenership levels that they knew they were not delivering?
If your management required staff to work overtime, without paying time and a half?
What would you do?
Click to expand...

Just sounds like another day at the CBS Radio cluster in Dallas to me!

BUST 'EM!
Click to expand...

For the most part, yeah it's CBS...but you also tack on the gsm "drinking" his lunch, then going on a "sales call" for the rest of the afternoon (trying to squeeze in 18 holes before dinner), and you'd definitely have CBS! Of course I kid...right Steve Sullivan?
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Purdy....
 
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