[SBE] I'm retired, what Hoiday, every day is a holiday!!!!

[A9xw at cs.com]

Happy 4th folks.  Unless some local brain job opens up, I have filed for my 
SS and have retired from broadcasting.  Tending to the dog kennel biz.  A 
160 foot commute to work. 

In case you are wondering, there are no openings at WYIN.  The last project 
was to make it fully automated and unattended operation. Half or more of 
the staff are gone from a few months ago.  My assistant will be busy.  For 
sports and news remotes, he has to run the sat truck, use the on board computer 
to set the satellite gear at the studio, unless its a PBS transponder in 
which case the automation will catch the feed, and uses LOGMEIN to look at the 
FM and TV transmitters. There is an auto dialer if the TX goes off the air. 
 no MC ops, no transmitter ops, no maintenance.  Everyone is looking for 
work elsewhere.  My guess, the 8 TV and bunch of radio will operate from 
Indianapolis with some kind of Internet return link if any.  EAS set on auto.  
Traffic person has a VPN from home so she can work 24/7 keeping the Titan 
automation on line.  No one there to answer the phones, videos and tapes likely 
will be consolidated to an outside service to fulfill membership purchases. 
Production has 3 syndicated program series and what ever sales they can 
manage to generate. News is down to 2 cameras and their broken ones will not be 
fixed. They will have to share with Production.  Not sure how long the 
sat/production truck sales person will be there, I was getting it more jobs than 
he was.   

1963-2010,  long enough to see it all. 

Henry Ruhwiedel
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