[BC] The Main trouble with radio..

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

I just found out what happened to Carl Grande, one of the finest broadcasters
in the Northeast.

http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18124468&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7592&rfi=6


He died two years ago of cancer.

Richard B. Johnson


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Gary Glaenzer" <gglaenzer at hqradio.com>
> Paul;
> 
> Sadly, it is 'the norm' in many clusters
> 
> The total degree of staff-trimming must be seen to be believed
> 
> G
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting at gmail.com>
> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 5:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [BC] The Main trouble with radio..
> 
> 
> > I gotta wonder how they "aired the wrong format" for 8 1/2 hours ... and no
> > one noticed. That's just.. well, goes beyond way wrong.
> > 
> > And Im assuming when the stations would pop off the air and the only call
> > you got was from the remote control that it was in the overnight hours.
> > However, if it was earlier then that and people were in the building..
> > that's unacceptable.
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 9/30/07, Alan Alsobrook <radiotech at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > Case in point recently on a holiday the "morning show" of the #1 station
> > took the day off in a top 50 market. Some automation errors occurred,
> > and the station started running a completely wrong format at 0600.. This
> > was not discovered and corrected until it managed to trip a silent
> > sensor around 1430.  Do you think this could have happened in the 80's??
> > I sure don't, hec if the overnight DJ played a single out of format
> > record at 0342, he would have probably known about it in less than 15
> > minutes.
> > 
> > Currently, several times I've noticed some of my client stations trip
> > off the air for one reason or another. I would go to the transmitter and
> > get the station back on the air, usually about an hour, and never
> > receive a call from anyone except, the remote control.
> > 
> > Gary Glaenzer wrote:
> > > or too few owners
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "wini" <wini at intrnet.net>
> > >>Hey...consider this.
> > >>Maybe there are not  too many radiuo stations.
> > >>Just too few formats.
> > 
> > >>>>The best thing that can be done on AM is fewer stations, higher power.
> > >>>>R
> > 
> > This sounds like a typical New York answer, Translated - "if it doesn't
> > help New York, who cares." :)
> > 
> > Actually, if you want to improve local service, Take down all the 50's
> > and put a bunch of 1's in their place. Then you would start to see radio
> > that would serve its community.
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