[BC] Silence sense? -

[DHultsman5@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/7/05 9:44:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
kzerocx at rapidcity.net writes:

Many  people who hold the "program director" title do not listen to  their
stations except, maybe, during their board shift.  The remainder  of the
time, many of them go into hiding.  Whether cell or landline,  any attempt to



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Years ago the program director of our station even ran a radio all night by  
his bedside.  He could tell if the transmitter was off or if the jack had  
fallen asleep.  The jocks used to claim he listened 24 hours a day.  I  could 
always trust his judgement on technical complaints.
 
TODAY many program directors,  like engineers,  are taking care  of 
programming on more than one radio station.  With some programming  local, other from 
satellite, and other voice tracked, they can't really keep up  with everything 
on the air. 
 
Results more problems that take longer to correct.  Also no  personnel at the 
station makes it very difficult.  I heard a station  in a nearby  state have 
some kind of lockup in their hard drive that  ran the same 5 to 7 minutes of a 
talk show for over an hour.   This was on a Saturday and I am certain that 
people were calling the  station complaining but no one to answer the phone. 
Silent sensors don't have  any common sense when audio is present.
 
Possibly a solution would be for all the stations in a market to forward  
their main office number to common answering service that would answer with  
"Radio Station" and when a problem is reported the service call the PD or CE of  
that station.  At lease a person would be available.
 
Dave Hultsman