Live and Local in the Overnights?

[spilot113]

I was told that the each of the five studios in GM's Dorchester facility requires a board-op or personality 24/7, though that may no longer be the case.

WBOS 92.9 doesn't require anyone anymore......either board ops or listeners. ;-)

(...since it is 100% automated)

Really? I know someone who I had thought was board-oping 92.9 WBOS post-flip... perhaps said person is doing something else over there.

I think originally there were board ops...but once the AV got set up over there....It's automation all the time.

 

[Retro]

WBMX has Mike somebody doing overnights.

 

[CapeRadio]

The general wisdom pretty much everywhere Ive worked is keep someone in the building 24 hours a day. I work in a 3 station cluster, and one station is live 24/7. The other two are another story. And these havent all been major markets. I think thats why so many CBS stations in Boston have overnight guys, and in other (even larger) markets thats not the case. Overnight guys at CBS in the rest of the country seem to be a thing of the past.

Where I work now we use maestro. Its incredibly unreliable, and it does something rediculous and goes off the air on a regular basis. Where i worked last used nexgen, and even that used to crash on me from time to time. And nexgen crashes are bad because they involve multiple computers. 4 run the air studio computer. (air studio terminal, the actual computer that plays the music, the stream computer, and the studio router)

But you only need one person to respond to these kind of problems. For weather there is someone on call, so a first responder to hold down the fort until he gets there, power failures, etc. A friend of mine who was doing overnights in NH actually saved her transmitter building from burning down (and kept her station on the air the entire time).

So anyway, think one person per building, and every boston cluster I can think of does this, except maybe medford and WFNX.

 

[JustinT]

WBMX has Mike somebody doing overnights.

WBMX is an EAS primary, though, which at last check means they must be staffed 24/7.

 

[Xkrusdx]

i know it's out of area. . .but check this site out. . . www.wbcb1490.com
1490-WBCB Levittown, PA (suburb of Philadelphia) live and local 24-7-365. and yes, they still play cd's instead of music off of a computer.

--Dave--

 

[WFNERBSHX]

i know it's out of area. . .but check this site out. . . www.wbcb1490.com
1490-WBCB Levittown, PA (suburb of Philadelphia) live and local 24-7-365. and yes, they still play cd's instead of music off of a computer.

--Dave--

I stream WBCB occasionally. The overnight guy, Nick Cataldi, plays an eclectic blend of music (a lot of rock and bluesy stuff i've never heard of). I enjoy listening to him, though I usually fall asleep fifteen minutes into his show.

WIRY in Plattsburgh is another quality local station that, until recently, had live programming from 12A-5A. In fact, they had a great request and dedication show from midnight-2 that seemed to have a lot of listeners, judging from the number of calls in.

 

[Retro]

WBMX has Mike somebody doing overnights.

WBMX is an EAS primary, though, which at last check means they must be staffed 24/7.

Now is this something new? They didn't have any announcers during the overnight back in 1996 at all.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

WBMX is an EAS primary, though, which at last check means they must be staffed 24/7.

Now is this something new? They didn't have any announcers during the overnight back in 1996 at all.

A qualified board-op could have taken care of the EAS even if there was no announcer.