[BC] Radio training

[Steve Lewis]

Mass Communications students are not there to learn the electronics of the
equipment they use - they have an interest in production, the business end,
or talent.  To learn the equipment, what makes it work and what gets it on
the air requires (generally) a different type of person with completely
different interests.

You generally don't want "Special K" the DJ messing with settings on
processors, transmitters, antenna tuning units, etc.  You certainly don't
want him popping the door off a transmitter unsupervised.  The state college
has little business in trying to teach such things without exhaustive
coursework bordering on an EE or at least technical degree.

There are a few of us that can/do walk the edge of the razor sharp
separation of production and engineering without getting sliced into two
pieces.

-----Original Message-----

First, it's a State College. There are NO outside donors to it. It now sits 
there, running automation, and maybe one kid helping out.  They don't teach 
engineering at that school!  And no, it does not serve the community. It's
too 
worry about being a "Metro Nashville" station, than our towns station. The 
people here in town, if they want local, listen to the two AM Stations. To
my 
knowledge, there has never been an engineer come out of that school. It's
was 
designed strictly to learn mass communications classes. The school has a
"paid, 
on staff" engineer that fixes the equipment if it goes down. He's been there
for 
about 25 years or so.  The students are NOT allow to fix anything!  This is
a 
situation that is out of date.