[BC] Negativity

[Steve Newman]

Scott..

This is funny. I wasn't even thinking about CC when I wrote the message! I 
was looking beyond that. I was just trying to say that 
nothing..NOTHING...replaces experience. I have absolutely nothing against 
CC. I've never worked for them. I don't really know anything about them. I 
do know they do effort to run first class operations. I have the greatest 
respect for Steve Davis who posts from time to time and I make it a point to 
read his messages. Again, this was not about CC.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Fybush" <scott at fybush.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Negativity


> Steve Newman wrote:
>> Sure wish you would respect people who have experience. I respected my 
>> teachers in the business and still do. I didn't know it all at 23. I've 
>> never met Richard but read between the lines. His reality may not be 
>> yours but he's been down some great roads. I hope you go down some good 
>> ones as well and remember to be mindful of what you see during those 
>> journeys.
>
> I'm somewhere on the age and experience spectrum between Paul and Richard, 
> and while I respect Richard's experience and have learned a lot by reading 
> his posts, I do (again, respectfully) disagree with him where CC's 
> corporate engineering is concerned.
>
> I've been to a lot of CC stations in my travels, and my experience is that 
> "a satellite dish and tower surrounded by unmowed weeds" is a much more 
> apt description of where a lot of those small stations were BEFORE CC came 
> to town, not afterward.
>
> It's been my experience that CC's stations are generally well above the 
> national average in terms of quality engineering, especially in smaller 
> markets where they can tap corporate resources that simply don't exist for 
> the mom-and-pop guys. (The mom-and-pop owners don't send a dozen local 
> engineers to Vegas for winning "Engineer of the Year," as CC did last 
> week - and that's a level of support I've got to think any engineer would 
> like to have from corporate.)
>
> One certainly can't argue with the FCC record - it's exceedingly rare to 
> see any CC station cited for the FCC's usual violations (unpainted/unlit 
> towers, missing ASRNs, missing EAS, day power at night, etc.)
>
> As with any large corporation, what's true in one market and under one 
> local manager may not apply in every market or under every local manager, 
> and I certainly know a few folks who've had less-than-happy experiences 
> with the company, but that's par for the course with any company that has 
> that many stations and that many people working for it.
>
> But to tar CC, by name, with the "sloppy engineering" brush just doesn't 
> fit with what I see as I visit stations and transmitter sites.
>
> I'm pretty sure Steve Davis and Jeff Littlejohn at least lurk on this list 
> from time to time. If there are really CC sites that are as bad as Richard 
> describes, I know they'd like to know about them so they can get them 
> cleaned up.
>
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