[BC] WTEM--Chief engineer

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He had an excellent Chief Engineer.  At the time, his cluster in DC  
was three FAR FLUNG stations.  Just driving between the three was an  
all day job.  He then made his Richmond and Tidewater stations part  
of the CE's responsibilities (forgive me for not knowing the stations  
-- I could not possibly care less about sports.  I would rather  
listen to a proof!).

You cannot blame him, his qualified Chief found a much better job.   
Now, the DC cluster actually has some DC stations, two majors and I  
think a minor.  One of the majors is way out in the suburbs too, and  
in another direction from any of the others in town.

I wouldn't take that job for $250k a year!  Now, at $500,000 a year,  
I MIGHT, as long as I cold redirect some of my salary to other help.

OH, the Chief is also responsible for stadium studio stuff.  It is  
abusive.

To be fair, the 980 site is right on a creek.  Though I have only  
been there once, from my memory, I believe it would be possible for  
flooding to get over the insulators.  AS I RECALL, the building floor  
is more than few feet up off the ground, so there was planning  
involved back in the day that NBC owned it (WRC-AM).

Even the best Chief Engineer cannot keep it on the air when the water  
gets to the RF!

On Sep 8, 2008, at 3:04 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

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> From: Jeffrey.P.Bottalico at kp.org
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> DCRTV reports that WTEM 980 was off the air Saturday afternoon to  
> midday
> Sunday due to weather.  Red Zebra (Dan Snyder of the Redskins) does  
> not
> have a chief engineer for his cluster.  Penny wise but pound  
> foolish??????