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Q105 Middays - Automated And/Or Voicetracked?

InSearchOfGear said:
badjef said:
JoJo Walker said:
Giving the time and temps doesn't mean that you are a time and temp jock, simply a sign that you are live, not voice tracked. To do the forcast and not give the current temps...what's the point???
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Somebody on the boards could probably explain a "time-temp" jock better than I could but it is essentially: one who breaks open the mike and that is the first thing they say. I think it originated with the Boss Jocks, but I may be mistaken. Just because someone does weather twice and hour does not make them a "time-temp" jock.

And in answer to your question, with us at 91x, we were only delayed 6 hours, in San Diego the weather did not vary that much from day to day, let alone in six hours. The temps did change within a couple of miles so we would give the valley and the beaches. Most of the time it would change 15-20 degrees. Otherwise, I would have to defer the questions to the PD's that have done it and their philosophy.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
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Always loved the way the JOCK gets blamed for being about "time and temp" when he's simply fulfilling directives from his program director. In the pre PPM era, there was actually a strategy behind doing this. Weather is a basic service element that people expect from their local radio station and will sit through a song or two waiting for it, which of course helps TSL.
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The old addage works here: "Your parents make you who you are, it is up to you to stay that way or change." A personality has to grow. Howard and Rush started out as "time-temp". If it works for you, great, I always felt the more versatile I could be, the more valuable. Can't say it was without its flaws, but I never regretted the decision.

Why so many radio stations have voluntarily ceded this image to news/talk is beyond my limited I.Q, I guess.

Time in morning and afternoon drive is also a service element for those commuting to or from work, though with most cars now having digital clocks front and center on the dash is not as relevant as in the past. Still, it can't hurt.
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I don't understand a lot of programming decisions. There are stations still give their ID's at the :50 break, if you are going to sweep the TOH, fine, if you are going to stop there ayway, what's the point? I think some do it because it is a "monkey see, monkey do" mentality. If you have other answers, I'd be listening for them. Be happy of the area your station serves, the client is or he wouldn't be there.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
Hey Jeff, does this mean that Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta used the be "Jeff At The X"....?
[/quote]Yes, and I have sneakin' suspision that you were "Ralph"!
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That would be correct, sir.
 
JoJo Walker said:
The easy way to tell if they are voice tracked is this: do they tell you the time? And when doing a forecast, do they give you the current temps? If they don't...they are voice tracked, plain and simple...
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I'm told that the midday jock on the oldies station in New London, CT, Kool 101, is voice-tracked. I notice the jock, who goes by the name of Dave Wright, will usually give an exact time on some breaks; since I listen to the station online, I couldn't validate whether or not there is a delay between his time announcements, and what the exact time is. But during his shift, I notice every weather break - which includes a current temperature, if I am not mistaken - is always given over a full weather music bed; whereas the other jocks in live dayparts will cut it off and go back to the music when done; I can tell Dave has a tendency to "stretch out" his weather breaks.
 
DToTheJ said:
JoJo Walker said:
The easy way to tell if they are voice tracked is this: do they tell you the time? And when doing a forecast, do they give you the current temps? If they don't...they are voice tracked, plain and simple...
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I'm told that the midday jock on the oldies station in New London, CT, Kool 101, is voice-tracked. I notice the jock, who goes by the name of Dave Wright, will usually give an exact time on some breaks; since I listen to the station online, I couldn't validate whether or not there is a delay between his time announcements, and what the exact time is. But during his shift, I notice every weather break - which includes a current temperature, if I am not mistaken - is always given over a full weather music bed; whereas the other jocks in live dayparts will cut it off and go back to the music when done; I can tell Dave has a tendency to "stretch out" his weather breaks.
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It isn't all that difficult to give a time check; NexGen gives you the expected time that the voicetrack will run when you go to record it. But the problem is that NexGen seems to have a bug that even though it knows the length of each program element. the time may be a few minutes off when it actually runs that voicetrack. So I typically am deleting songs to get the time back in synch..
 
They fired Hank Shaw their overnight jock about 3 weeks ago....so the answer would be no!
 
Anybody know if the overnight show on WUSF is VT'ed or live?
 
noflufftampa said:
Automated And/Or Voicetracked?.....Ain't it the same thing??? ???
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I thought automated was generic for anything not live like voice-tracking, robo-jocking, or just using liners like WDUV.
 
Not exactly. Every station these days runs some type of automation system... like ENCO, Scott Systems, Prophet. These systems basically hold and play what used to be music on CD's and commercials on carts. Each day's log of music, commercials, liners, jingles, etc. is loaded into the automation system and it plays and plays and plays... until a jock tells it to stop - live assist mode or the system crashes. So, let's say Mason Dixon is live in the am - the automation system is running until he pauses it for a break. Midday guy could run in during his voicetracked shifts (which are put into the automation kind of like commercials) and stop down after a song and do a live contest.
 
How do I know Q 105 is automated/voice-tracked by people who don't know much about Tampa? This weekend I heard a jock promote a Gasparilla event. He pronounced it "gas-pa-REE-uh".

Sigh...
 
yeah, you can always tell the voice tracked from local and live. I heard one pronounce a town in our area as "Me-deen-uh" when it's pronounced "Ma-dine-ah" [Medina] and another one one pronounced "Akron" as "ACK-ron" with the emphasis on "ACK" when it's pronounced more like "Ack-run"
 
Interesting as the edit didn't stick. Bearss is Ave, not Blvd. I knew it didn't look right when I originally typed it, which is why most simply refer to it as Bearss, even though they still cannot pronounce it properly.
 
one of the biggest I've noticed is Bradenton. A LOT call it Bradington. How anyone puts an "ing" in there is beyond me....
 
BIGRIGGER said:
one of the biggest I've noticed is Bradenton. A LOT call it Bradington. How anyone puts an "ing" in there is beyond me....
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A lot of locals pronusticate it that way, too. Oneco is pronounced "One-Co" only by drive-bys, though.
Same people who call it "Kiss-a-me".

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
Kabrich said:
Interesting as the edit didn't stick. Bearss is Ave, not Blvd. I knew it didn't look right when I originally typed it, which is why most simply refer to it as Bearss, even though they still cannot pronounce it properly.
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The further west you go, the less Ave, St, Ln, Blvd, etc., are used in conversation. I have yet to hear the traffic people refer Bearss (Ave), Dale Mabry (Hwy), Fowler (Ave), or Hillsborough (Ave) by their suffix. Busch Blvd and Tampa Bay Blvd is the only one I can think of off hand they use.

At least you spelled it correctly.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
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