(Reposted from a private group, so you folks know why I might be taking some time off to recuperate mentally….)
Until today, I could honestly say that the shortest radio job I’d ever worked was for XXX XXXX. I was hired as a temp to board-op and babysit WFPG-AM on Christmas Eve and New Years’ Eve one year when I was between regular gigs. Employed for one week, two shifts.
Until today, I could say that I’d only been forced out of a broadcasting job because I was gay once.
Both those things changed today with the end of my two days’ employment by Colonial Broadcasting.
I had been brought on as Assistant Operations Manager for their Olean NY/Bradford PA cluster. In addition to the various management duties I was going to be tasked with revitalizing the cluster. The owners were in town this week, and they wanted to make sure I was a good fit for their operation and that I was up to the job.
I proved to be more than up to it, as three hours going up and down a mountain to a transmitter site with the owner proved as we debugged a problem with the news transmitter he was using to put a translator on the air that day. I mastered ENCO within 24 hours and showed how much of a dab hand I was at Cool Edit Pro. They had me voicetrack two stations, WXMT and WNMB, for the midday shift to show I knew what I was doing. I learned how to retrieve syndicated programming and where to put it in the system. I’d even spent two hours calling contest winners from my own cell phone because they didn’t have any working phones in the building other than what the sales department was using, and plans were underway to have me track for five different stations in the company’s different markets.
(Reposted from a private group, so you folks know why I might be taking some time off to recuperate mentally….)
Until today, I could honestly say that the shortest radio job I’d ever worked was for XXX XXXX. I was hired as a temp to board-op and babysit WFPG-AM on Christmas Eve and New Years’ Eve one year when I was between regular gigs. Employed for one week, two shifts.
Until today, I could say that I’d only been forced out of a broadcasting job because I was gay once.
Both those things changed today with the end of my two days’ employment by Colonial Broadcasting.
I had been brought on as Assistant Operations Manager for their Olean NY/Bradford PA cluster. In addition to the various management duties I was going to be tasked with revitalizing the cluster. The owners were in town this week, and they wanted to make sure I was a good fit for their operation and that I was up to the job.
I proved to be more than up to it, as three hours going up and down a mountain to a transmitter site with the owner proved as we debugged a problem with the news transmitter he was using to put a translator on the air that day. I mastered ENCO within 24 hours and showed how much of a dab hand I was at Cool Edit Pro. They had me voicetrack two stations, WXMT and WNMB, for the midday shift to show I knew what I was doing. I learned how to retrieve syndicated programming and where to put it in the system. I’d even spent two hours calling contest winners from my own cell phone because they didn’t have any working phones in the building other than what the sales department was using, and plans were underway to have me track for five different stations in the company’s different markets.
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