Re: Weather cancellations-correction

["Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>]

The hardest job I ever had was taking cancellation calls at WGAN in the
early 90's.  On busy mornings, the phone rings off the hook and it is very
stressful.  The people who do the job certainly earn their money.  I was
very happy when the station moved to Western Avenue and the job was
separated from my duties as the producer of the morning show.

As Chuck noted in his post, the people at WGAN do an excellent job on storm
coverage.

As a student in the University system, I don't need to rely on broadcasts
for cancellations.  They have a phone number for students to call to get
cancellation information.  A factory that a relative workers at has a
similar system.  I wonder if technology (the internet, e-mail, pagers,
sophisticated phone systems) will soon make broadcast cancellations
obsolete?

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine

----- Original Message -----
From: <dwcole@mediaone.net>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: Weather cancellations-correction


> I may "works" very well, but I meant to say "it" works very well.
> Two days of Operation Stormwatch and my brain apparently is fried
> if I cannot see a simple mistake like that.  :)
>
> Dan
>
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