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

[Robert Meuser]

If Wall street were that enamored, I would be wealthy. I have stock 
options worth three times the current stock value.  New Orleans is a 
different discussion, but that was not radio business as usual by a long 
shot.

R


Craig Bowman wrote:

> Good one.  Tell that to Wall Street or the people of New Orleans. I am 
> done.
>
> Craig Bowman
>
> Robert Meuser wrote:
>
>>
>> I think you are viewing radio as being far more important than it 
>> really is these days.
>>
>> R
>>
>>
>> Craig Bowman wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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