Re: RKO...automated?

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com>]

Donna Halper wrote:


>So riddle me this, you engineers on the list.  I was in Vermont and NH 
>doing research last week, and I heard some incredibly bad radio from a 
>technical standpoint-- spots playing over each other, elements not 
>starting when they were supposed to, dead air... I thought a lot of 
>stations these days are on hard drive and/or satellite (as opposed to the 
>cheap-o automation some stations used to have), so why would these 
>mistakes still be occurring?


An automation system is only as good as what's fed into it.  It will do 
exactly what it's told to do, not what you thought you told it to do.  Keep 
in mind that problems during satellite programming could be the fault of 
the network, too.