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For those who crap on stations that Voicetrack.....

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

One station I do afternoons for had a 15 year old go missing late last night. Our station is a locally owned standalone (one guy, no one elses money, he owns no other businesses) and we compete against a lawyers 3 station cluster and a corporations 2 station cluster.

Thanks to voicetracking from Alaska, as soon as I saw the alert on the police departments facebook page.. I pulled up my web browser, logged into PlayoutOne and right from Firefox voicetracked 5 breaks between 11pm and 1am local time .. and I did it form Alaska.

None of the other statioons had anything on the web or facebook at the time (I checked) and im pretty certain they had nothing on the air either. (They have the track record of not)

Technology is a tool that can be fantastic when used appropriately.
 
That's a real world example of how you don't need a live & local staff 24/7 to serve a local community. Very few local emergency services (gas company, electric company, doctors) are fully staffed 24/7. You don't staff a radio station on overnights and weekends just in case an emergency happens. People have phones, and you can reach them quickly and get them in if that's required. Or else they go to their home studio, record a few breaks, and load it via ftp to the hard drive and reprogram the automation. Easy peasy. It does help if someone is monitoring the police in case something happens. But you don't have to be in the radio station to do that. Just about everything can be handled by remote, and it's been that way for over 25 years.
 
TheBigA said:
That's a real world example of how you don't need a live & local staff 24/7 to serve a local community. Very few local emergency services (gas company, electric company, doctors) are fully staffed 24/7. You don't staff a radio station on overnights and weekends just in case an emergency happens. People have phones, and you can reach them quickly and get them in if that's required. Or else they go to their home studio, record a few breaks, and load it via ftp to the hard drive and reprogram the automation. Easy peasy. It does help if someone is monitoring the police in case something happens. But you don't have to be in the radio station to do that. Just about everything can be handled by remote, and it's been that way for over 25 years.
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I work for/with people who care like I do or I dont work for them. I was full time at this station for 2 years.. and I went to work there in part because of their comittment and involvement in the community. And we had fun doing it.

BUT... i say that to say this.. people who needed to, knew how to get ahold of us when they needed us, we knew how to get ahold of others.. and we followed all the important facebook/twitter pages, etc
 
I miss the loseness of overnight live radio. The jocks were not worried about anyone listening and would take live requests.
 
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