Re: RKO...automated?

["Aaron [Bishop] Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 09:41 PM 8/17/2002, Sven Franklyn Weil wrote:
>On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Donna Halper wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
>The computers run Windoze and they keep crashing? :-)
>
>Seriously though....you don't expect a computer to be the most reliable
>thing in the world, do you? Especially when its handling such massive
>amounts of data (audio files) constantly?
>
>Stick with a live operator and a stack of CDs or carts for
>commercials...CDs are better though...they don't tend to jam...as much. :)
>
>--
>sven


Bah...at a lot of  places the computers (even Windows) are MORE reliable 
than the operators.  Rarely are they as FLEXIBLE as the operators, though.


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