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

[Adrienne Abbott]

No commute and you can truly say you're working with some real dogs-sounds
like an improved work environment to me! Give yourself at least a year to
get through the process of winding down from the pressure cooker of
broadcasting and to learn how to not blame yourself for the changes that are
way beyond your control. Life is too short to spend it being angry. You've
just made a smart choice on a tough decision. Congratulations.

Adrienne

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

From: A9xw at cs.com 

To: sbe at sbe.org 

Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 5:19 PM

Subject: [SBE] I'm retired, what Holiday, every day is a holiday!!!!

 

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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