Re: WFNX --> WNHQ ?

["Chris Beckwith" <beckwith@ime.net>]

SteveOrdinetz wrote:

> I can't imagine WFNX being able to hear Sanford).

That would explain a lot, eh? :)

> we've had become really anal on making sure all :60s are EXACTLY
> :60 to the tenth of a second. Once you get things running properly
> it sounds good, but it takes vigilance.

Vigilance is the word!  I still hear stupid things on some automated 
stations like spots ending early (which leaves an obvious gap 
between events) or being cut off because they ran beyond :30 or 
:60.

At one of my old stations we had to run an Eventide Harmonizer on 
almost everything because the bulk of our spots primarily ran on a 
sister station that wasn't automated (I pity the statons that don't 
have a Harmonizer!)  This station had a very early digital 
automation system that didn't have enough channel capacity to 
overlap events, so you had to throw in another tenth of a second or 
two to allow for transitions.  Even that didn't ensure success, of 
course, because timing could still be thrown off depending on the 
number of spots in a local break!  Back in those days automation 
was even more of an art than it is now.

Take care,

Chris

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