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Galaxy's Traffic dept mess

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ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?! Today I was doing some monitoring of local stations and flipped to K-Rock only to hear a promo about some movie passes they are giving out for some horror movie on WEDNESDAY JUNE 22nd!!!! TODAY IS FRIDAY JUNE 24TH. Are you that inept over there where you aren't catching this??? what a bunch of clowns. thats pathetic
 
> ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?! Today I was doing some monitoring of
> local stations and flipped to K-Rock only to hear a promo
> about some movie passes they are giving out for some horror
> movie on WEDNESDAY JUNE 22nd!!!! TODAY IS FRIDAY JUNE
> 24TH. Are you that inept over there where you aren't
> catching this??? what a bunch of clowns. thats pathetic
>
Hey, at least it wasn't for Wednesday DECEMBER 22nd! In a perfect world, all spots and promos would be correctly labeled with kill dates, which in theory would prevent an outdated spot/promo from airing. Of course, we don't live in a perfect world and these things happen. And they do happen from time to time at virtually every media outlet that deals with dated material. And errors such as this will continue to happen until computers evolve to the point at which the human factor can be totally eliminated.
 
shut your mouth. you messed up and you know it, no excuses, not on this board, not in this town.
 
More stations mess up

> ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?! Today I was doing some monitoring of
> local stations and flipped to K-Rock only to hear a promo
> about some movie passes they are giving out for some horror
> movie on WEDNESDAY JUNE 22nd!!!! TODAY IS FRIDAY JUNE
> 24TH. Are you that inept over there where you aren't
> catching this??? what a bunch of clowns. thats pathetic
>
If that's all you can come up with, then they're doing better than the other stations in Syracuse because I finally heard a 95X-fest promo, the day after. LOL. They 95.SUCK.
 
> shut your mouth. you messed up and you know it, no excuses,
> not on this board, not in this town.
>
First of all, I didn't mess up. I don't even work for the company in question. I haven't even worked in the State of New York in close to five years. But as a traffic manager with over a dozen years experience in markets large and small, from mom and pop operations to large national corporations, I can tell you that these things happen EVERYWHERE from time to time. And 9 times out of ten it is NOT the fault of the traffic department if an outdated spot or promo runs. Most of those who work in traffic, myself included, are perfectionists when it comes to our job. We also spend a great deal of time covering our asses with a paper trail so that an error such as the one you described can be traced back to the source, wherever that may be. You are right about one thing, though. There are no excuses for what happened, only explanations. What will be done to prevent it from happening again will show the difference between a good GM and a warm body collecting a GM's paycheck. Just my two cents. Have a nice day.
 
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