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

[Bob Reite]

What are they going to do about the "human presence at the main studio" 
rule?

A9xw at cs.com wrote:

> 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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