Re:Re: RE: Labor Board Issues Three Complaints Against WW1

[tklaundry@juno.com]

Garrett wrote:
It's not (or shouldn't be) the air talent's job to gather the traffic
information.  That's the job of the ``phone force'' call center,
scanner monitors, and the highway department.  Listen to a Chicago
traffic report some time: there are traffic speed monitors on all of
the expressways, and IDOT provides travel times for major
sources/destinations to all the stations (or their outsourced traffic
services).  Since Mass Highway and the Turnpike Authority are
apparently not prepared to provide this information, the only way to
come up with it is to go out and actually observe the conditions --
and you don't do that sitting in a studio in Cambridge.


Dave writes:
In a perfect world the air talent would just sit there and have all the information presented to him/her.  The reality is that is not how it works and you need an experienced person who knows how to effectively work the phones, develop a good working relationships with various departments as well as do exceptional airwork.   Hire someone looking for their "big break" for $13 an hour and you aren't going to get the expertise to be able to do the job right.