[BC] Fallout from Unattended Operation

[Scott Cason]

 >>I don't really believe in complete automation without a real live 
person being there. especially when
you say you are the towns spoke person of the air, the home town radio 
station.
someone needs to be there if something happens bad or good, and relate 
the story to the listeners.


It's just a matter of time before that happens here in Louisville.  On 
the weekends, WHAS is totally automated with no local news anymore.  
News at the top of the hour is from Kentucky News Network.  I'm waiting 
for the day all hell breaks loose with the weather or some other spot 
news event and WHAS is stuck re-running Rush's Friday afternoon show.  
Since they have cut local news during the week (two minutes at the top 
of the hour if you are lucky) I have started turning over to WFPL, our 
local NPR affiliate, that does 5 minutes of local news at the top of the 
hour with a live body in the control room.  Like WHAS /used/ to do.


Scott