[BC] Board Op Licenses

[Rich Wood]

------ At 04:04 PM 11/15/2005, Alan Kline wrote: -------

>As a means of controlling indecency...I'm not sure it would pass 
>muster.  I think
>that rightly or wrongly, the First Amendment types would be all over it.

I think it would be in the courts for decades.

>As a means of ensuring that stations have technically competent 
>people operating
>in a technically competent manner, I'm all for it.  I've seen too 
>many people pass
>through our doors who can't find their tushie with both hands...

The original license was required to operate a transmitter. If there 
was a fulltime engineer I don't think it was required. If it were 
used for indecency, every guest on an interview show would need one. 
Also, why should a board op be punished for for something said by the 
talent? At a Talk station the talent is always right. The mistakes 
are always someone else's. Are you going to fire Hannity for being 
awesomely dumb? No. The blame will lie with his board op.

Rich