Re: Hutch

[DonKelley@aol.com]

Roy:  Here's your original post:


>Is Greater Media that cheap? How about recruiting some
>warm bodies from Emerson Collage to help out with
>weekend scheduling? Even in the Summer months, there
>most be some ambitious talent looking for on air work
>needing some extra spending money. Give poor Hutch a
>chance to play 18 on a nice Saturday like the rest of
>us. ggeeeshh..hope you're not a smoker Hutch!

>Roy Lawrence

That is not a post defending Hutch.  No one attacked him.  That is a post calling Greater Media cheap for not hiring weekend jocks from Emerson.  I'm trying to point out a couple of flaws in your post:

1) That "cheap" is a non-issue when it comes to hiring weekend talent.

2) Hutch working on two stations is good for him and for both stations.

3) College students with no experience are not ready for daytime shifts on major market stations.  There are a zillion subtlities of performance that they have yet to learn:  losing a regionalism, learning how to finesse a mike, how not to pop their P's, how to pronounce W, how to sound knowledgable and excited about music they didn't choose to play and might not even like, how to follow a strict format, why quarter-hour-maintenance liners are important, why ratings make or break you, how to talk to a demo they're not in yet (especially a demo that is, say 20 years older and of the opposite sex). That's the stuff that you learn through experience - working at paid jobs out there in the real world.