[BC] Future of Radio Eng. /was/ Computer based audio

[Robert Meuser]

Maybe insurance was a band analogy. Think banking. Look at the 
technology at the major processing ceneters, like flywheels backed by 
gensets and multiple UPSs. They stand to loose many 10s of millions in 
minutes if they are down.

R


Craig Bowman wrote:

> If, for that period of down time all the customers of the insurance 
> were irrevocably uninsured that would be a good analogy.  When a radio 
> station is off the air all of its customers are affected.
>
> Craig Bowman
>
> Sid Schweiger wrote:
>
>>>> When was the last time a computer jock answered a 3 AM call?<<
>>>>     
>>>
>>
>> Please stop perpetuating this myth.  There are plenty (myself included)
>> who do it all the time.  It's just as inconvenient and unacceptable for
>> an insurance company's computers to be down for maintenance, repairs or
>> upgrades during the business day as it is for a radio station's
>> transmitter to be off during the business day for the same reasons.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sid Schweiger
>> IT Manager, Entercom Boston LLC
>> WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WMKK - WRKO - WVEI
>> 20 Guest St / 3d Floor
>> Boston MA  02135-2040
>> Phone: 617-779-5369
>> Fax: 617-779-5379
>> E-Mail: sid at wrko.com
>>
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