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How's that mid day voice tracking working out?

Today I heard a announcer break come in with a good minute left in the song, so for a minute it sounded real professional ??? ??? and then the mid day VT'er starts reading some real crappy copy about Boz Scaggs playing the Hampton Beach Casino this weekend, and how it is a must see show (I hope it is a better show than last summer because last summer it %^&*ed) but when she was recording the VT she screwed the copy up in a BIG way, so she'd stop, and try to pick up where she left off, in hopes of editing it all together at some point to get a good break. Guess what, after her 5th try someone at 104.9 must have noticed, because they tried to fix it, dump into an ID, the usual, and when they tried to come back out of it they were still playing the faulty file.

They blew out a talented professional with 20+ years at the station for this crap?

Live radio is good radio!
 
MRBIboredop said:
How's that mid day voice tracking working out?

Today I heard a announcer break come in with a good minute left in the song, so for a minute it sounded real professional ??? ??? and then the mid day VT'er starts reading some real crappy copy about Boz Scaggs playing the Hampton Beach Casino this weekend, and how it is a must see show (I hope it is a better show than last summer because last summer it %^&*ed) but when she was recording the VT she screwed the copy up in a BIG way, so she'd stop, and try to pick up where she left off, in hopes of editing it all together at some point to get a good break. Guess what, after her 5th try someone at 104.9 must have noticed, because they tried to fix it, dump into an ID, the usual, and when they tried to come back out of it they were still playing the faulty file.

They blew out a talented professional with 20+ years at the station for this crap?

Live radio is good radio!
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This is unacceptable but I've heard live jocks make major mistakes too. Live or tracked, good radio is good radio and bad radio is bad radio!
 
Just FYI, the problem you heard was caused by an automation screwup, not by anything our midday host did or didn't do. Show me the automation system that doesn't crap the bed now and then and I'll buy it...it's the nature of the beast.

Not sure why you'd object to Catherine doing pickups in her track; jocks who VT routinely edit their work, or do if they care at all how it sounds.

And for the record, our previous midday jock Jacky Ankeles also voicetracked her show.

Charlie Curtis
North Shore 104.9
 
then while we are on the subject, why was she let go just to replace her with another voice tracked host?

How did the un edited track make it into the automation system? Didn't anyone notice the cut length was abnormally long? I know when I program our automation system it is pretty clear to me when something is longer than it should be.

the automation system I work with NEVER screws up, at least in the time I have been there which is going on 7 years now. Which is a good thing because I get to sleep through most of my shifts (only kidding Jeff!)

That was some of the worst radio I have heard in years. The copy was horrid, the multiple attempts to get it right, the attempt at recovery was worse than the mistake.

If I wasn't in Southern NH when it happened I would have been listening to 99.1, and there are times when they VT, but I can't tell when Audrey is there or not unless she tells me.

WRKO screws up their mid day automation all the time but I expect that from a company that doesn't care about their product
 
Live people - radio or clubs screw up too. I had a brokered music show on 990 AM in Hartford and one night the CD started skipping. I switched over to a commercial break. The same thing at The Club in Wolcott where I'm in training. One night I was playing "Play that Funky Music" and the CD started skipping. I potted it down and got another song going. I always have a back up CD ready to go just in case, but this other DJ at the club - he let a song skip for 5 minutes. He was too busy making out with his girlfriend to notice and he also didn't have a back up CD ready to go.
 
I would venture to guess that voicetracked disc jockey A (as in Ankeles) was replaced with voicetracked disc jockey B, probably because voicetracked disc jockey B makes less money than a seasoned veteran in voicetracked disc jockey A.

Maybe Charlie can tell us for sure.
 
DToTheJ said:
I would venture to guess that voicetracked disc jockey A (as in Ankeles) was replaced with voicetracked disc jockey B, probably because voicetracked disc jockey B makes less money than a seasoned veteran in voicetracked disc jockey A.
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In one of the newspaper articles about this, I had read that the new host had already been working at the station in an off-the-air position. That lead me to wonder whether perhaps she is now doing both her previous off-air work and her tracked airshift for not much more (or even the same) salary that she already had for just the off-air work before. Many stations (and other businesses) reduce payroll by having one employee wear two (or more) "hats" these days, especially with time-saving technology such as voicetracking.
 
Hey Charlie -

Since you're up here taking some hits - I'd like to pass on an "atta boy" to ya.

Last week - not sure what night - I was heading up to Amesbury to pick up my daughter at work and had WBOQ on listening to the Red Sox. Well, as radio would have it, mid pitch, the darned feed went dead. Hoping against hope the board op wasn't in the can at the time (which is usually when stuff like this happens) - I waited. Waited all of five seconds until a promo popped on the air. Couple of spots later, the BO must have called a dial in back up number, and the game was back on the air. Granted it sounded like a phone feed, but it was back up and running.

Nice to have a live person in place. Good catch and quick moves by the board op.

Marc Lemay
 
Thanks, Marc...I needed that! :)

Our Sox radio line has been playing hide and seek the last few days. Verizon says it's a CO problem and they're working on it.

Our board op Pete Kelley gets the credit for being on the ball.

Charlie Curtis
North Shore 104.9
 
Hats off to WBOQ both for oldies and the Red Sox. I only wish your signal more consistently captured the frequency in the Framingham area. Now that WODS has abandoned the oldies format, you have the best playlist in the Boston area. I still have to deal with the occasional funkiness of WEEI's nighttime signal to the west when listening to Sox night games however.
 
WRKO's automation system problem's are not always theirs. Just because your system never fails, isn't an indication that you are doing anything better than anyone else.

When Laura Ingraham's producer hits the wrong tone, or miscalculates his break time it throws the entire network off.
 
MarcB said:
Live people - radio or clubs screw up too. I had a brokered music show on 990 AM in Hartford and one night the CD started skipping. I switched over to a commercial break. The same thing at The Club in Wolcott where I'm in training. One night I was playing "Play that Funky Music" and the CD started skipping. I potted it down and got another song going. I always have a back up CD ready to go just in case, but this other DJ at the club - he let a song skip for 5 minutes. He was too busy making out with his girlfriend to notice and he also didn't have a back up CD ready to go.
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I DJ as well, at a place called Orleans in Somerville, MA. The other night I was "spinning" from my Laptop - had my OTS Turntables on as the main program. While I was in mid song, for some reason iTunes was opened (must have accidentally double clicked on a file) and for 10 seconds or so I had a hard rock song playing over the La Roux pop song I was playing with the other program. Now THAT was embarrassing..but it happens. You quickly recover and hope that no one noticed.
 
Hey Charlie -

Since I've got your ear - have you guys tweaked the EQ on 104.9? Monday night, doing the drive thing to Amesbury, the air chain sounded "fuller".

Just curious,
Marc Lemay
 
Good catch...did a little tweaking on the ol' Optimod recently. We'd always used one of the presets and it sounded great right out of the box. Good to know it sounds even better now.

Charlie
 
I was driving from Woburn to Cambridge and heard WBOQ play Blood, Sweat & Tears' version of Billie Holiday's "God Bless The Child" from that wonderful 1969 second album (with "You Made Me So Very Happy," "Spinning Wheel," and Laura Nyro's fantastic "And When I Die."). I can't remember the last time I heard that great album cut on the radio. Very interesting playlist!!!!
 
MRBIboredop said:
Anyone else notice former WROR personality ( and former WZLX weekender?) Kim Collins doing vacation fill in for Charlie Curtis?
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Haven't caught that yet, but I've been hearing her doing traffic reports on various stations (Metro?)
 
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