[BC] Last Stands

[Rich Wood]

------ At 09:46 AM 1/6/2006, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote: -------

> > It took station staff about an hour to figure out which circuit breaker to
> >  open to kill the board.  It made the Detroit papers.
>
>It *should* have only taken them a few *seconds* to patch-out the CR and run
>a show from Prod. Too bad they didn't know how to do that. (Or the station
>wasn't set-up to allow it. It should be.) They could have also just 
>pulled the
>*main* breaker, too, and got him off-air in seconds. God forbid if something
>like that ever happened here, I'd have patched him out in seconds 
>and started a
>"Technical Difficulties" loop. Call 911, and wait for the Police- 
>then kick the
>door in and (hopefully) resume normal programming.

Substance abuse counselors will tell you the clergy often have 
serious alcohol problems. There could have been no more appropriate 
end to an era than doing exactly what he did. Had it continued, the 
station might have found its ratings skyrocketing and the new format 
kicked off with a flair. Or flare, in the case of ignited booze.

That's the problem with our industry today. No sense of humor. I 
would have given the guy a raise and a new show.

I sure wish Fr. Guido Sarducci had been in my Parish instead of real 
life church ladies.

Rich