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MELTDOWN at KC-101.3

That's surprising. I know Fred and his crew run a pretty tight ship, engineering wise. They must of had something major "soil the linen" for that to happen.
 
Clearly it's a screw-up with their automation. Perhaps someone forgot to load the next day's music playlist into the computer. If all it sees is spots, that's all it can run. Who knows.

At least management will be happy that no spots need to made up. ;D
 
So if they played all those commericals does that mean KC 101.3 can play music for a couple hours maybe 5 straight hours of music. Just a thought as they just played all those commericals. Whatever happened to Clear Channels sorter commericals lol.
 
MarcB said:
Maybe I'm naive in my thinking, but since Brady was the last DJ to leave the building at 12Midnight shouldn't it have been his responsibility to check the music log in the automation computer to make sure everything was in order? Ultimately I believe it was the Music Director's fault, but you know they're gonna blame Brady.
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not to come to Brady's defense but if it's still the way it used to be, he voicetracks from 10p-12a and so he's probably out of the building by 9:45-9:50. You have until 11:59 to get the playlist in for the next day so if it's not in by 9:45 thats really not his fault at all. Whoever uploads the playlists didnt have their playlists loaded and NexGen will just keep playing whatever it has on the log. The traffic log was clearly uploaded but it was never merged with the music log until AFTER the fact it had been playing commercials for so long. Clearly, someone didn't do their job and Im pretty sure this has happened more than just this one occassion.
 
No horse in this race - I'm far, far away; but this has happened to me when my automation system fails to make the transition into satellite programming and all that's there to play for an hour or so are the commercials scheduled to merge with sat. prog. Just a thought...
 
unreal256 said:
not to come to Brady's defense but if it's still the way it used to be, he voicetracks from 10p-12a and so he's probably out of the building by 9:45-9:50. You have until 11:59 to get the playlist in for the next day so if it's not in by 9:45 thats really not his fault at all. Whoever uploads the playlists didnt have their playlists loaded and NexGen will just keep playing whatever it has on the log. The traffic log was clearly uploaded but it was never merged with the music log until AFTER the fact it had been playing commercials for so long. Clearly, someone didn't do their job and Im pretty sure this has happened more than just this one occassion.
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Okay. Point well taken, but even if Brady is VT'd then whoever was the last LIVE DJ in the building should've checked. Or they should have a utility person on staff in the overnight hours like they do (or did) in Hartford. I remember seeing an opening on the CC Hartford site a year or 2 ago they were looking for a utility person to babysit the 5 stations during the overnight hours.
 
But there have been dozens of postings here and other places that having anyone "babysitting" a half dozen stations would be the end of radio. It would cost too much they claim.

Ha!
 
MarcB said:
unreal256 said:
not to come to Brady's defense but if it's still the way it used to be, he voicetracks from 10p-12a and so he's probably out of the building by 9:45-9:50. You have until 11:59 to get the playlist in for the next day so if it's not in by 9:45 thats really not his fault at all. Whoever uploads the playlists didnt have their playlists loaded and NexGen will just keep playing whatever it has on the log. The traffic log was clearly uploaded but it was never merged with the music log until AFTER the fact it had been playing commercials for so long. Clearly, someone didn't do their job and Im pretty sure this has happened more than just this one occassion.
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Okay. Point well taken, but even if Brady is VT'd then whoever was the last LIVE DJ in the building should've checked. Or they should have a utility person on staff in the overnight hours like they do (or did) in Hartford. I remember seeing an opening on the CC Hartford site a year or 2 ago they were looking for a utility person to babysit the 5 stations during the overnight hours.
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except Mark, Brady would have been the last LIVE DJ in the building and im sure it has happened on more than one occassion that the music log wasnt merged with the traffic log so therefore im sure he assumed that it would be there within 2 hours. As far as having a board op, or something there to babysit is not logical for Cheap Channel, i mean Clear Channel anymore because they are cutting budgets like crazy right now. No more overnight voicetrackers because they cant pay someone for 2 hours to voicetrack the overnights? cmon now. Clear Channel is killing radio.
 
Killing radio?
I think it's just about dead.
Sad that there's no creativity. God forbit, someone wants to make a music request or a jock wants to play something a little bit different.
 
kms575 said:
Killing radio?
I think it's just about dead.
Sad that there's no creativity. God forbit, someone wants to make a music request or a jock wants to play something a little bit different.
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There's no creativity BECAUSE of Clear Channel. All of their new less is more ideas and "lack of jock talking," is killing radio as we know it. Since when has commercial FM radio ever been an outlet to honestly get requests played. Long long time ago. It's companies like Clear Channel that have made it so corporate that they do it the way their "research" comes back. It's BS.
 
Maybe they're making up the spots that were missed in the last week. I remember a few years ago, WPST 94.5 got struck by lightning and went off the air for 6 hours. When it came back on, it was in the middle of a song, and then 30 minutes of spots. From a sales perspective, it's better to screw up by playing too many spots than to play none at all.

When did KC101 finally stop airing spots?
 
I see a new trend, Infomercial Radio. half hour blocks cheap dayparts,Late nights 1 hour blocks for the rate as 1/2 hour.hahaha heck with the music and talk shows.ok I hope the clients will not be charged for the over runs that night from KC101 and CC radio.I remember a long time ago on WDRC in the late 70's I heard Harry Chapin's "All My Life's A Circle" about 8 times in a row.
 
unreal256 said:
kms575 said:
Killing radio?
I think it's just about dead.
Sad that there's no creativity. God forbit, someone wants to make a music request or a jock wants to play something a little bit different.
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There's no creativity BECAUSE of Clear Channel. All of their new less is more ideas and "lack of jock talking," is killing radio as we know it. Since when has commercial FM radio ever been an outlet to honestly get requests played. Long long time ago. It's companies like Clear Channel that have made it so corporate that they do it the way their "research" comes back. It's BS.
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Total BS....couldn't agree more. Try listening to the "less is more" format on Kiss 95.7. It sounds awful. No professionalism at all.
 
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