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When the Saints don’t come marching in

It’s time now for the first “work bitch” post.  Today was Game 3 of the Saints preseason.  Around 6pm I get a call from the board op telling me that there is nothing coming down the network feed that should be putting out the Saints pregame show.  I ran down to the station and verified that there was no signal.  I called my boss who told me that the kickoff was delayed for an hour (which is wasn’t).  I called the engineer and he told me to go up and reboot the satellite receiver.  This required me to venture into unknown territory....I had to walk upstairs!  This is the first time that I had ever been upstairs by myself.  KNOE is setup so that everything technical goes on upstairs with all the studios and offices being downstairs.  The upstairs floor is basically a labryinth of hallways that all lead you back to where you started.  It took me a while but I finally found my way back to where all the magic happens.  I was very impressed with the wall-o-equipment.  I rebooted the receiver which did no good.  We put the game through on the telephone until I was able to get ahold of someone down the network to fix the problem.  If I got one thing out of today’s experience it was the ability to navigate around upstairs without getting lost.

Since I’m on a work theme, I’ll go ahead and post the FM 102 news which by now isn’t really news anymore.  FM 102 is changing.  We’re trying to become more of a traditional CHR station.  This means including more R&B and hip hop songs.  We now play Nelly, “Fiddy Cent”, and the Black Eyed Peas to name a few.  This all started effective Friday.  Also, we have streamlined our playlist from 500 songs down to about 150.  Nothing in our playlist is more than 3 years old.  The clock has also been adjusted so that we are doing something after every song now.  Apparently this is how you gain and retain listeners.  Who knew?

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