[BC] Negativity

[Dana Puopolo]

(I) Don't blame Clear Channel or any company for the situation broadcast
engineers are in. To their credit, CC actually pays well and runs clean
engineering shops.

WE are ther ones to blame for our situation. Like I posyed earlier, the guy
who offered $3.35 an hour (then couldn't find anyone) has two choices. Either
pay more or leave the tower unclimbed.

Same with us. If we as a group refused to work for low paying or poorly
managed stations, those owners would have the same two choices. Unfortunately,
there's always someonbe willing to whore themselves out, and they drag the
rest of us down with them. As a result, all of us lose.

If my toilet is leaking and I call a plumber, he quotes me a price and I have
two choices: either pay his price or keep mopping up the floor. Same thing
with a car mechanic. Yet, in broadcast engineering there alwsys seems to be
someone who will work for a few dollars cheaper...THAT's the reason that
contract engineering rates really haven't gone up in Boston in over a decade.
We don't cheat the owners, WE CHEAT OURSELVES when we  allow things like this
to happen. With regards to Paul's comment, that's fine whenh you're single
without a family to feed and house, but it doesn't cut it for the majority of
us.

-D

------ Original Message ------
Received: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:55:33 PM EDT
From: RichardBJohnson at comcast.net
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] Negativity


Paul,
I never claimed that there might still be some radio station 
somewhere that still has engineering discipline and might actually be 
a good place to work.

In response to:
 > Think before you speak
I did do my homework and I do know what I am saying. Do you see the 
tree growing at the base of a tower at Clear Channel's WKOX? 
http://gallery.bostonradio.org/miscellany/100-01124-med.html I wonder 
it this was included in their pattern calculations. Here is another 
view of the all too typical Clear Channel transmitter site. 
http://gallery.bostonradio.org/miscellany/100-01122-med.html Just 
like I said, just satellite dishes and weeds. Note that tree is 
between the towers!

This is just one of the Clear Channel stations that was bought so 
that they could have a tow-hold in the Boston market, actually in 
Framingham to get around some of those pesky FCC rules.

For your additional entertainment:

http://www.clearchannelsucks.net/
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A265001
http://www.salon.com/ent/clear_channel/
http://archive.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/05/30/clear_channel_employees/index.html
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/clearchannel.asp

--
Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson


  -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting at gmail.com>
 > I happen to know a Clear Channel engineer who now works for anhother
company
 > in the South... and by golly, their stations were ALOT more then a sat
dish
 > and overgrown weeds.
 >
 > As for WRCA-AM(Ex WCRB), Yeah, it's lost it's heritage... but I've seen
 > their tower site and their owned by a decent company.
 >
 > Think before you speak.
 >
 > Paul Walker
 >



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