Re: Verizon coverage and sponsorships

[Chuckigo@aol.com]

In a message dated 08/19/2000 12:46:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tklaundry@juno.com writes:

<< Two issues with this,  this assumes that, as the only jock in the
 building,  you have your eyes glued to a tv set or wire.  It has been my 
experience
 that jocks do not check wires during their shift even when (IF the station is
 even set up with one) a flashing light goes off on the board that indicates
 the wire needs attention. >>

Dave...
    you crossed a line on this one.  there may be jocks who don't care about 
the wire or the tv or the events or even the freakin' newsroom....
   I AM NOT ONE OF THEM.

   don't ever, ever, ever pretend to clump me in with "most jocks".  i ain't 
one, and that's why i still are one.  okay?   additionally, you may ask any 
one of the "News Journalists" at Morrissey Blvd who the person is who not 
only keeps an eye on the wire, but has helped them all through the learning 
process of NewsBoss and who is the person who has AP or UPI e-mail his person 
account with the latest news summaries when the satellite equipment does not 
function as it should.  (hint:  it ends with "...ckigo@aol.com")

dave then writes...
<<Second, Verizon strike not withstanding, even if a jock does find out
about an airline disaster that requires such a decision, managers are
available 24/7,     they are at most 10 numbers away via telephone.>>

    gotcha.  so when your traffic person is away for the weekend and your 
program director is away for the weekend and your sales manager is away for 
the weekend  (after all, they don't work saturdays or sundays and they do 
have lives)...  they are not always 10 numbers away.  on this point, you may 
feel i'm wrong.  i simply feel you are delusional.

and finally, i've stopped reading dave's missive here:
<<  Ahhh yes, the good old days when stations did those things,  How many
    "music" stations covered the Concorde or JFK Jr. plane crash outside of
    regularly scheduled MORNING newscasts? (since most if not all don't have
    any newscasts scheduled at the times Chuck listed above) >>

   I DID, DAVE.  IT WAS ON A SATURDAY MORNING.  IT WAS ON TV.  IT WAS ON THE 
WIRE.  AND DAMNIT, IT WAS ON 105.7 WROR.

wow.  i've never, ever gotten any kind of inkling that news journalists feel 
this way about all "jocks" without first finding out about what kind of 
"jocks" they are.
sorry, Dave, but you are way off base on this one.   sit down and have a 
beer.  (i'm now having my second...)    
  (*chuck peeked at the end of dave's note here:)
   as for your "rule"...  i'd be willing to buy YOU a second beer if there is 
NOT a station out there with the same standing rule still posted somewhere 
(vis a vis airline crashes and airline commercials).   man, you come from 
some really "anal" stations if you've never once been trusted to use your 
common sense.

- -Chuck Igo