WFAN

[Dan Billings]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: WFAN

> I think he - and some of the other old-timers like
> Rick Dees in LA - believe, not without justification, that the "classic"
> gear is more reliable than that newfangled digital stuff, and when you're
> selling AM drive spots at NYC prices, those make-goods can add up. (I was
> never privy to those stats at BZ, but I know we had a LOT of double audio
> and such during our transition to digital circa 1996-97, and I can just
> imagine what the makegoods must have looked like.)

>From my experience working with a digital studio at WYNZ, the new fangled
equipment was more reliable than the old stuff.  99% of missed spots were
due to human error.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine