That's funny!
It reminds me of my experience at a very remote Native-American
reservation radio station I've worked at. It took me years to get them
to actually start building a "log" for their BSI Simian based system.
They kept using the Simian version of "rdcartslots" manually throughout
the day.
But then I have to forgive these nice folks as they only got electricity
in 1980 and a few years after that I unknowingly caused "shock and awe"
when I showed up with the first vacuum cleaner they had ever seen.
They've come a long ways since then as they now have their own mobile
phone tower and ultra-high speed Internet in the form of fiber to their
door steps! They also have their first "convenience store" that is
ironically next door to their new "health/fitness" center that was meant
to help combat rampant obesity and diabetes problems in their society.
On 5/26/2015 10:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:30:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rob Landry<[email protected]>
To:[email protected]
Subject: [RDD] Grrrr, Aaargh
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<[email protected]>
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OK, so I explained to the folks at [call letters deleted] that it's really
simple: you walk into the studio, and the next spot you're supposed to run
is at the top of the rdairplay screen; all you have to do is push the
green button. Rivendell will keep track of when all the spots run and then
when it's time to reconcile the logs, the process is straightforward.
They're not running their music from Rivendell, just spots, and it seems a
lot of spots aren't showing up in the reconciliation report even though
the airchecks clearly show they're running. It turns out that people are
mapping them to Sound Panel buttons and running them via those. And
nothing run via a Sound Panel button will show up in reconciliation, so
the spots aren't getting billed.
This appears to be a classic illustration of the reality that fools are so
ingenious that nothing is foolproof.
Rob
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