RE: WMWM taking a week off...

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

Both in writing and in practice the FCC grants a lot of leeway to 
college/high-school stations to be off-the-air during normal holiday breaks.

That doesn't mean that it's inordinately stupid for a station to ever be 
off the air.  Well, okay...I can see regularly scheduled outages on, say, 
overnights.  As long as it's REGULAR...nothing random.   I have often heard 
the adage by students that they think their listeners would rather hear 
dead air than hear bad air or automation (no focus groups, research, or 
polling to back this up, mind you)...proving very effectively that:

1: Students often know far, far less than they think they do...and...
2: A student-run station should be required to have a faculty advisor.


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Aaron "Bishop" Read       aread@speakeasy.net
Fried Bagels Consulting   www.friedbagels.com
AOL-IM: ReadAaron         Brighton, MA 02135


At 06:34 PM 12/19/2002, Bill O'Neill wrote:
>Aaron writes:
>
> > Your interpretation of "running unattended" is a little
> > off, Peter...but in
> > principle I agree with you.   There's no reason for any
> > station to shut
> > down these days...it's just too damn easy and cheap to
> > set it up to run
> > with no physical presence at the helm.   "Saving heat and
> > power"??
>
>It also makes me wonder why the station wasn't a bit more forceful
>with the licenseholder-Trustees of the school to walk away from its
>obligations to the license to broadcast at least 12 hours per day.
>It isn't about the electricity.  It's about ignorance by the
>administration.  Don't get me wrong, as a former student station
>wonk, you WANT the school powers to remain somewhat ignorant in
>order that the student-freedom be perpetuated, but there are times
>when you can turn the tables on the school and toss the regs at them
>and wait for them to thank you for covering their collective arses.
>
>Bill O'Neill