[BC] Good and bad remotes...

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

Crazy? Oh, you meant lazy.... oops... *keeps mouth shut* LOL

Paul



On 4/3/07, Kent Winrich <kwinrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Indeed good remotes can turn out well!
>
> We did a remote with all six stations (all broadcasting live) in our
> cluster
> 2 years ago, for Katrina support.  We ended up with 18 semis full of food
> and water and 4 semis full of clothes.  We were a tad overwhelmed with the
> reponse.  Listeners came out to help us load and stuck around for hours.
> The car line to get in was backed up for well over a mile.  Listeners were
> there with HUGE smiles helping to load trucks and pallets.  Talk about
> getting close to your community.  And the companies that donated trucks
> and
> pallets and food and the like received a great response.
>
> Done right and with some creativity or at least some thought, remotes work
> great IMHO.  Setting up a table with a high school kid does not make a
> remote.  But then again I have met a lot of lazy broadcasters.
>
> Kent Winrich
>
>
>
>
> On 4/3/07, Burt I. Weiner <biwa at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > I did a Sports Talk remote from a tire store once.  Hardly anyone
> > showed up.  Could it have possibly been that it was 6 AM on a Sunday
> > morning and the store was closed that day?  I remember asking
> > beforehand, "Are you sure of the date and time???)
> >
> > I've seen remotes - in recent times - work very well.  Especially if
> > they're planned and something more than the sports guy sitting at a
> > card table in the corner of a shoe store on Tuesday at noon.  A good
> > remote can build listener loyalty.  A good remote can turn out a
> > stadium full.  A bad remote can barely turn out the promotions guy.
> >
> > Burt
> >
> > At 10:00 PM 4/2/2007, you wrote:
> > >Subject: [BC] No More Remotes
> > >To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> > >Message-ID: <01f901c7758a$0f74adb0$6401a8c0 at KKTY3>
> > >Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="iso-8859-1"
> > >
> > >Emmis/Indy puts the knife to remotes. Interesting presentation.
> > >
> > >www.nomoreremotes.com
> > >
> > >
> > >Heaven forbid sales should actually have to think about what they're
> > >selling...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Dennis Switzer
> > >KKTY AM/FM
> > >Douglas, wy
> >
> > Burt I. Weiner Associates
> > Broadcast Technical Services
> > Glendale, California  U.S.A.
> > biwa at earthlink.net
> > K6OQK
> >