[BC] Re: Radio Is Not what it Used to be

[Donna Halper]

>Jeff wrote--
>
>Nowadays, a young kid could take down the AudioVault by accidentally deleting
>one file. Carelessly connecting his/her laptop to the AudioVault network
>could cause a virus infection that would corrupt three AV systems here.

When I was consulting full-time, I began to see a lot of this.  Owners 
would invest in some fancy-shmancy piece of equipment like AudioVault but 
then they would invest no money in training.  They seemed to expect that 
somehow the chief engineer would show everybody how to use it.  Some 
engineers are very good at training.  Others are not-- they just get 
impatient.  And some engineers just did not have time to show anybody 
anything.  I was at a small market station last year (as you all may recall 
from a conversation we had about it) where various tones (and boy were they 
long) were being broadcast over the air, like the EAS tone, a weather alert 
tone, a tone announcing a network feed, etc etc-- and the person on the air 
had no clue how to stop the tones and just air the alerts or the 
announcements or the feeds.  I asked him about it, and he said he was told 
the tones had to be aired because there was no way to stop them.  I asked 
the CE about it, and oh did he get off on a rant about no time to train 
people, people don't listen anyway, people are stooooopid, etc.  Didn't 
sound like he was having a good day at all...