[BC] Dial-Global Will Make Progressive Radio Work

[Dana Puopolo]

If you spent 5 minutes at the TRN network, you'd know why they have so many
technical foul ups. The wiring looks like it came out of a spaghetti colander!
It is one of the biggest messes I have ever seen! Their NOC is in a garage,
and looks it. Names like Mackie and Numark are all over the place. They have
two automations hooked up, Google and Simian. Some of the shows are on one,
some on the other. If you forget to physically turn one off, BOTH fire tones
down the network, but because they both use their internal clocks, their times
aren't synced and you get double tones sent.

They won't put any money into where they are, because they are supposed to be
moving into new studios, "someday" yada, yada, yada....

They're not bad people to work for, but the frustration of working at that
physical plant results in a revolving door of engineers and IT people, which
makes it even more difficult to keep the place running. What they really need
to do is build new studios elsewhere without bringing a single piece of
equipment or wiring from the old place, cut over, then haul most of the old
place away in a dumpster.

-D

>Rich wrote:
> Knowing the people involved, I'd doubt they'd have a problem with him 
> originating from Washington. At WOR we would occasionally have Joan 
> Rivers originate from London. As I recall, not a problem. Most 
> networks originate shows form all sorts of places. Usually the problem 
> is at the originating end because there's no engineer involved beyond 
> setting it up initially. I've heard complaints from stations about the 
> awful quality of Michael Savage (technical, not content).