NOT....Re: [BC] Clear Channel Wants More?

[DANA PUOPOLO]

One guy can handle seven stations IF AND ONLY IF:

1. The transmitter sites aren't all over the place. Back up
transmitters/generators/alternate audio paths, etc. are everywhere.
2. The equipment is in basically good shape, and has been maintained.
3. The expectations of the staff are realistic (ie: No spending half the day
fixing printers and the Internet).
4. The studios aren't all over the place.
5. The engineer is allowed to use outside people (ie: plumbers, roofers,
generator repair people, telephone system repair/upgrade people, computer
repair people) to do non-engineering  work.
6. The engineer does not have to do remotes.
7. The staff is intelligent and speaks a language the engineer can understand
(ie: english).
8. The engineer has the TOTAL support of management and the TOTAL support of
corporate.
9. The engineer has been trained or schooled in the maintanance of the major
equipment (IE: DX-50 school, Microsoft server school, etc.).
10. For directional AM's, the patterns are all stable and "in".
11. The physical plants are all in good shape (ie: TX buildings, studio
buildings, etc.).
12. The engineer has a reasonable repair and capital budget.

If any ONE of these things do not exist, the engineer WILL be working over 50
hours a week every week.

I highly doubt that every cluster can say ALL these things exist at their
stations.

Comments?

-D

------ Original Message ------
Received: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 12:21:29 PM PDT
From: "Mike Gideon" <mikegideon at comcast.net>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: NOT....Re: [BC] Clear Channel Wants More?

Right. Acually, one guy can handle seven stations if he isn't bogged down 
with a lot of the day to day stuff that the big market guys have to deal 
with. In my experience as a regional, you almost never have to force 
anything with a GM. Most things can be fixed by making the GM understand the 
situation. There are only three options... adjust the budget, adjust the 
expectations, or change horses. In a couple of rare circumstances, we had to 
change the horse, with my blessing.

>
> That's rather sad and very unusual to hear in my experience with the
> company.  Perhaps a friendly phone call or email to his regional 
> engineering
> guy is in order.  Sometimes it takes a little intervention from the top to
> get a GM to see things different.
>
>
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