[BC] Silence sense? -

[Robert Meuser]

Interesting take on an old concept.

A station in a small town automated AM and FM in the 70s. The reason was 
to improve quality and get the kids off the air. They also established 
an answering service and an alarm monitoring service on premise. The 
station therefore was manned and monitored 24/7. They had 6 first phones 
hanging on the wall.

R



DHultsman5 at aol.com wrote:

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