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Memo To Staff

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The annual on air staff Christmas greetings have been cancelled due to, well, no staff. Thanks for your support.
 
Does anybody here remember the WKRP episode where they do a Scrooge type show with Christmas past, present, and future? In the future WKRP is nothing more than Herb Tarlek behind a console with blinking lights, there is no staff. Those writers knew what the future of radio would be like!
 
Memo to staff, "Your Christmas bonus has been used up with the paper and ink we printed this on. We would have sent you an email instead, but we wanted to connect personally. And you're fired anyway."
 
To make it realistic, the on-air greetings would need to air on December 26th, voice tracked by a staff member who had already been fired and wishing everyone a beautiful sunny Christmas day when there was a blizzard in progress.
 
Followed by dead air from a brokered show that ran previously via the bird that week after week the one remaining "Ops Manager" could not program the Nexgen robot correctly to switch back to a playlist :).
 
Those greetings ran on the 26 but on the sister station in Nashville. The intern in Cincinnati loaded the files into the wrong playlist. Memphis ran Birmingham's Greetings with weather and a week old traffic report from Charlotte.
 
wow. You could write better stuff. This would make a great sitcom. Who do you think they could get to plan John Hogan?
 
On the AM simulcast, when a song did finally play, it would only be the right channel audio of a very-stereo 60's oldie. And for some reason, apparently only I would notice or be bothered by that.
 
Because Christmas and New Year's Day are always on the same day of the week, there is the possibility that the Sunday playlist wouldn't be updated between Christmas and New Year's and that you could hear Christmas programming on New Year's. This Christmas and following New Year's Day land on Sunday.
 
"Jack Palance. I know, he's dead, but it could work anyway." Of course it would! Heck! Just get one of the 8 dollar an hour board ops turned into production directors to finish up their voice tracking on the country station and go down to production and find some old tapes of Jack to cut up and splice (via the Nexgen built-in audio editor of course) to make him say cool things. The audience will love it!
 
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