[BC] Making format choices

[Bowen, Jonathan]

I shouldn't say this but it made me laugh. We do 2 out of 3 of these strikes :) No artist or title mentioned AT ALL... No request shows. Well no live announcer at all. But with some nice smoke and mirrors plus a complex automation system and a lot of programming hours we make it look like he is live. No joke people call in and complain that our main announcer never gets a vacation. If he worked the hours we play him he would work like 12 hours a day everyday including holidays.

We don't play 5 or 6 features but we have at least 3 sometimes 4 during out music hours. Unless we have a 15 min or more show. Oh and segue what's that? Cause we don't segue ANYTHING. Our station sounds like a big CD player with 38000 songs that was set to random.

But I'm the engineer and changing those things is above my pay grade :) We play what the owner wants how they want it and smile. It's their station and they sign my checks that's all I care about.

We are now trying to implement our first music scheduler. So trying to get Powergold to enforce our "rules" has been my assignment for the last 3 weeks. With 38k general songs not counting seasonal and over 90k cut numbers in the database between voice tracks and programs, I have been putting my computer and Powergold through some rough times. Scheduling a full day of music takes upwards of an hour of just number crunching. Lets just say it has been an adventure so far. BTW Powergold is very powerful and can do what I am asking it if I could just get good data. 15 years of people putting music in the library and different people every few years has cause some data discrepancies

The music people told me that a tempo of MS means the song is medium slow OR that it starts medium and ends slow. Yah I just walked away after that one.

On the good side we are broadcasting in stereo :)

-----Original Message-----

IMHO, WIHS has several big "strikes" against it:

#1, they do NOT announce the Titles and Artists. It's against their "rules".
(The only exception is during two, 1-hour request shows on weekends.) A few
weeks ago, I heard their morning announcer coming out of a song, talking about
"this artist" that he had seen in concert before, who was coming to the area in
a few days. He spoke about "this artist" for a minute or so, and used that
term: "This artist" at least 3 times. I couldn't believe my ears!

#2, their format is "fractured". They must be playing 5 or 6 "short features"
every hour. During music segments, you're lucky to hear a segue' every now
and then, because there are so many "short features".

#3, they are broadcasting in mono.

Willie...
www.wphafm.org
(Details about this dream are at my WEBsite!)
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