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

[Craig Bowman]

Only if everyone with a deposit account could not earn interest on their 
accounts while the computers are down.  There are really no parallels to 
Broadcasting which is why, despite all it BS, we are here.

Craig Bowman

Robert Meuser wrote:

>
> 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
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> 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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