> What is wrong with this station? Technical problems?
> Continuously?
Most likely, yes. But that would only be specualtion on my part. Recently, Mike O posted about how the transition from KIKK-FM to The Wave, went smoothly. (Of course it did, I was there.) Okay it wasn't me however, the Scott system was already in place. What difference does that make? PLENTY!
Were any of you cats around when KILT/KIKK moved to 24 Greenway Plaza? Both operations, all 4 of them, changed from carts, cds and r to r to the all new mistake proof Scott system.
Oh yeah, that was a lot of fun.....for weeks! Examples: On KILT, I'm coming out of a stop set, which automatically jingles into the song. I was amazed at the ease of the transition, when suddenly I hear the jingle, "95 point 7, K-I-K-K!"
KILT jingles were on KIKK, KIKK jingles were on KILT. Promos for the other stations were appearing all over 4 stations. Everybody was running like chickens with their heads cut off. It sounded AWFUL!
General Gene Austin's last afternoon drive show was certainly memorable. He fired off the automation, it played the spot and the without warning it went through 2 hours of programming, music and spots, in 18 seconds. He picked up one of those brand new blue chairs and slammed it to the floor. That was the end of that chair and the end of over 20 years on Houston radio. He works at Walgreens in California.
We could time the many many crashes that would happen. We would get a call from KIKK-FM, they crashed! That mean't KIKK-AM was next, followed by KILT-AM, and finally KILT-FM. Irv Harrigan always had a cd in the player just in case. By the way, this went on for MONTHS! We never knew when it would happen. I will tell you this, I was pretty disgusted to hear these two giants sound like they were 1270 KIOX (a dead station you will see on my resume at ChuckTiller dot com.)
Back to my original statement, at the begining, it makes a difference when it is new. Not only did they have to deal with the changes to KIOL, but also, the Scott work station at KFNC. You start making major changes, and disasters may happen. I will state this, I like the Scott system. It performs wonderfully 95% of the time.
In the old days, are ya ready for that? In the old days, when you changed the format, all of the newly recorded carts which contained, music, promos and stagers were brought into the controlroom. About the only problems we had was assimilation to the 'new' way of doing it. Of course, one would get the occasional cart failure.
Yesterday afternoon coming out of the 4:20 set on KPRC, I hear, "9-50 K-P-R-C, Houston's place to talk." I like that liner. Unfortunately, it was on the same time as Hannity, who had already began talking. I hear that alot. Nobody wants to jump them about it. Oh yeah, I hear it happen on KNTH and KSEV, as well.
Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy! Either the board operator miss-timed the event or it was in auto.
In conclusion, if you aren't there, then you don't know what happend. KPRC/KNTH/KSEV/KFNC owes us, no explanation.
Just get it corrected and get on with the show.
Mike O (OH, I mean Chuck Tiller, for a second I thought I was Mike due to the length. My apologies for the lack of brevity.)(Insert laugh track here.)<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">
Edited by ChuckTiller on 06/16/05 10:44 AM.</FONT></P>
