[BC] Thought For The Day

[Bob Tarsio]

When I was chief engineer at WLTW in NYC we really had a much different
attitude about the air staff. I always engaged them in the process when we
designed studios or were about to make fundamental changes. I never had the
thought that I had to know better then them or to protect them from
themselves. These were bright, professional people and I had a great deal of
respect for these people. I know that Margaret's comments weren't meant to
demean the air staff and were meant as a joke but it got me thinking about
how many places I worked where that WAS the attitude. This may vary from
market to market I don't know. Input gave our air staff the satisfaction of
knowing that they had a hand in the design. In addition they had no one to
blame but themselves if they didn't like the way things turned out!

Bob Tarsio
President
 
www.Broadcast-Devices.com

 
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Margaret Bryant
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 16:15
To: broadcast at radiolists.net
Subject: Re: [BC] Thought For The Day

At WMAQ the motto of our engineering department was "protecting people from 
themselves".
Needless to say, we didn't let the air staff know.  But keeping it in mind 
when were designing systems for air use came in handy more than once. We 
really thought hard about every way they could mess it up before we 
released the equipment for general use.

Margaret
Former Group W Engineering manager


>Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 23:27:33 -0400
>From: <miltron at mindspring.com>
>Subject: Re: [BC] Thought For The Day
>To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
>
>Waaay back, my hometown station had a sign on the inside of the control
room
>door that said EMPLOYEES WILL BE FIRED WITH
>ENTHUSIASM................................
>The first place I worked was where I coined the phrase 'They've achieved a
>high degree of mediocrity"....
>M



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