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Post by BrettVW on Jul 16, 2006 18:06:13 GMT -5
This morning while I was at work I logged on to Kiss Cincinnati's website to listen to the AT40 stream because I wanted to hear Christina Aguilera guest host.
I was immediately treated to Coldplay's "Speed of Sound" at #32. For anyone who has followed any chart, you would know that song was quite old. Ryan was at the mic, yet this wasn't a simple "whoops we played a show from last week or a few weeks ago" They were playing a show that had to have been a year old!! Speed of Sound, Disco Inferno/50 Cent, Incomplete/Backstreet Boys and many more from a year ago were all featured hits on AT40 this morning on WKFS. Working at a station that dubs AT20 each week, I have NO idea how this would happen. With AT20 we simply re-save into the same files each week. Which does explain how the whole "last weeks show repeats itself" problem happens all too often. No one dubs the current show and the computer is scheduled to play the files anyway, which still hold the old show. However, somehow this old show was in the computer and managed to play itself this morning on WKFS. Unreal!! I believe after Hour 3 the station just went back to local music.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2006 22:21:26 GMT -5
If that happened to me, I would have let the show just finish running and when it was over tried to save face by calling it a best of or something.
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Post by Radioman on Jul 18, 2006 1:20:41 GMT -5
Hmmm ? That's really strange ! Maybe this wasn't an accident .......
Maybe they had no interest in having a dirrrrrrty host this week, so they've tried to do some kind of "Flashback for the new millennium".
I bet X-Tina was a "natural talent" at the mike ........ like all the other celebrities in recent years.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2006 4:12:47 GMT -5
Hmmm ? That's really strange ! Maybe this wasn't an accident ....... Maybe they had no interest in having a dirrrrrrty host this week, so they've tried to do some kind of "Flashback for the new millennium". I bet X-Tina was a "natural talent" at the mike ........ like all the other celebrities in recent years. It was a mistake, as Brett pointed out, they just stopped airing the show in the third hour and just went to aimless music. |
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Post by bandit73 on Jul 18, 2006 16:06:40 GMT -5
This is yet another reason why we need to repeal the Telcom Act of 1996. And if Congress doesn't, the states should.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2006 17:31:53 GMT -5
what was the telecom act of 1996?
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Post by bandit73 on Jul 18, 2006 19:29:46 GMT -5
It was the law that lifted ownership caps for radio and TV stations.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2006 19:56:56 GMT -5
Thats what I thought, and so that would make sure stations aired the right weeks show in the age of computer run weekends how exactly?
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Post by bandit73 on Jul 18, 2006 22:18:11 GMT -5
Because then there would be someone at the station to make sure a mistake like that didn't happen.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2006 4:59:52 GMT -5
How does caps on how many stations you can own guarantee someone will be in the studio?
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Post by bandit73 on Jul 19, 2006 13:15:00 GMT -5
If I'm not mistaken, the law didn't just remove the caps. It also got rid of the requirement that a person is at the studio at all times.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2006 19:53:03 GMT -5
Had the act not been imposed it would have never been able to hold up in court in this day and age. The only true reason someone would have needed to be in the studio in the old days was in the case of an emergency situation that needed to get out to the masses. Computers and newer technology have made even that need irrelevant I would now assume. Also, based on what I have read now by you on this board, I am glad the telecom act went in effect. I do not like government imposing on businesses the type of way they should run their business. If "x" radio station can run without the need of a person, and all the important fuctions such as emergencies can be handled without someone there, then they should be allowed to do so. Do I like necessarily that radio is so impersonal now and mistakes such as this latest AT40 one happen some? No, but I also do not believe for the sake of AT40 running properly that congress should repeal anything.
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Post by bandit73 on Jul 20, 2006 11:57:16 GMT -5
The only true reason someone would have needed to be in the studio in the old days was in the case of an emergency situation that needed to get out to the masses. Computers and newer technology have made even that need irrelevant I would now assume. The emergency isn't just going to announce itself. There was a very dangerous styrene leak in my area about a year ago, and none of the stations I listened to even mentioned it, because they were all voice-tracked and nobody was even in the studio. That's what governments do. Governments impose labor and environmental regulations all the time. I don't think anyone here would argue that we should let a chemical company dump boron and benzene in the river. I don't think anyone here would argue that we should let any company employ 5-year-olds to work 90 hours a week and then not pay them. So why should we let radio companies leave their stations unattended during emergencies? Even though stations are privately owned, the airwaves are a very limited public trust, and the government has to decide which prospective owners are best suited to own a station, as there is very limited space on the radio dial. Up until 1996, broadcast regulators had to follow these phrases: public interest, convenience, and necessity and diversity of voices. Since 1996 these concepts have gone pell-mell out the window. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2006 17:14:41 GMT -5
Ok that was extreme. No one was talking about a chemical plants, no one was talking about child labor. I am talking about a radio station who has a computer run it's music, two very different things. The latter is not going to cause harm to anyone.The regulation phrase you spoke of that was in existence until 1996 quite frankly is none of the governments business. I can see we are going to disagree as to governments role on this matter. I've never considered the airwaves to belong to the public, it belongs to whomever pays enough to operate them. You as the public have the right to turn the airwaves off.
If I am wrong about emergency broadcasting, then I am wrong. I know however that in my car if there's an emergency the radio changes automatically to an emergency channel or tells me to do so.
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Post by bandit73 on Jul 20, 2006 20:05:25 GMT -5
I've never considered the airwaves to belong to the public Airwaves belong to the public. I studied broadcasting in college, and this was one of the first things we learned. Most radios will not do this. |
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