Wondering how stations are staffing air shifts on Thanksgiving.
Two reasons: There's been an outcry this year about retailers making their employees work on Thanksgiving. Toys R Us is opening at 5 pm. Wal-Mart at 6 pm. I know when I worked full-time in radio, I worked many Thanksgiving Days. In small markets, it was necessary to staff local high school football rivalries with play-by-play announcers and board ops back at the studio.
Also elsewhere on this board, there's been a discussion about automation. It's been suggested automation was made for overnights. Are stations relying more on automation for Thanksgiving, thus giving more DJs/board ops/news staff the day off?
Are you working a Thanksgiving shift? When? How long? Is your station giving staffers the day off and putting the station on automation? Are you using recorded shows (whether local or syndicated) and having board ops run them?
Just curious how, in the day of retail establishments being open on Thanksgiving, what the situation is for radio.
Happy Thanksgiving ... especially to those staffing the airwaves on this holiday.
Two reasons: There's been an outcry this year about retailers making their employees work on Thanksgiving. Toys R Us is opening at 5 pm. Wal-Mart at 6 pm. I know when I worked full-time in radio, I worked many Thanksgiving Days. In small markets, it was necessary to staff local high school football rivalries with play-by-play announcers and board ops back at the studio.
Also elsewhere on this board, there's been a discussion about automation. It's been suggested automation was made for overnights. Are stations relying more on automation for Thanksgiving, thus giving more DJs/board ops/news staff the day off?
Are you working a Thanksgiving shift? When? How long? Is your station giving staffers the day off and putting the station on automation? Are you using recorded shows (whether local or syndicated) and having board ops run them?
Just curious how, in the day of retail establishments being open on Thanksgiving, what the situation is for radio.
Happy Thanksgiving ... especially to those staffing the airwaves on this holiday.