[BC] Fallout from Unattended Operation

[Tom]

Indianapolis:

W I B C:  "Live! Local! First!" - except; they run 3 minutes of 
commercials at the top of the hour during Rush, THEN the news.  Or until 
7:30 PM every day - canned news between 8:00 pm and 5:00 am; (To be 
fair, there's a live local program until 8:00 pm, so they COULD, I 
suppose, get something during that last half-hour... and it's even 
earlier on weekends - about Noon or so on Sunday; and maybe 3 or 4 pm on 
Saturday.  I quit listening shortly after they switched to FM, except 
during Morning Drive... and only in bits and pieces then.   FM-3 (105.7) 
has I believe a local program on until 10 pm, but everything else is 
running off the computer(s) - and it's not even a GOOD automation system 
- or else no-one there knows how to program it.  Upcuts, downcuts, dead 
air, multiple sources on at once... and this is Emmis' FLAGSHIP 
station/cluster!

Sheesh!

Scott Cason wrote:
> >>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.
snip
>  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.
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Tom Spencer
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