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The reason for a board op at all times

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truthsayer

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The Countdown show ran on Sunday mornings on Hot 95.7 had a glitch. The feed was blurping in and out every 1 sec and the program was un-listenable. This was an obvious tech glitch. Too bad there was noboby there to quickly correct or begin regular programming earlier in the show. I think all radio stations need manned 24 x 7!! I was driving on the Southwest freeway from Sugarland into downtown. around 8:40am to around 9:15am in the car. When I got back in my car at 10:45 am and all was good.
 
Could have a sat rcvr trouble, or a drop out in the audio feed and something TECHNICAL a board op cannot fix.....dont ASSUME anything........
 
Also, who's to say it wasn't manned? I remember running a countdown show a few years ago, and the CD was bad; every track skipped. I called the PD. He told me it was Sunday night, and no one was listening anyway. So, I was to keep airing the countdown on a skipping CD.
 
In these modern times I'm willing to assume the show was downloaded into a server, the local breaks were inserted and it was scheduled to air. In this case no one ever heard the show all the way through before it hit air. And I'm also willing to assume no employee was listening to it air and no one was answering the phones either.

All valid assumptions nowadays. Yet another argument for staffing your stations 24/7.
 
On the upside, they saved 10.00/ hour in labor, which will help with budgets. If Walmart ever needs new blood, there's plenty of management folks already well qualified to count nickles and dimes.
 
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