Could The Bone stop screwing up Little Steven... Please?

[Mike]

Little Steven's syndicated show is supposed to air from 9 to 11 on Sun nites on The Bone. Rare is the week that it starts on time. I've heard it start at 8:30, 8:45, 9:10... I can't remember the last time it actually started at 9.

More importantly, for that past month there have been dropped or truncated segments, or playing last week's show, or some combination thereof.  Last night the show started at 8:45 -- his annual Halloween show. We got the first 3 segments, then we got segment 4 from last week's show, then we got about 5 minutes of segment 5 from last week's show, which stopped in the middle of a song, followed by dead air, followed by live Led Zeppelin (Steven never came back). WTF? Is anybody paying attention over there?  Once in a while is understandable, but every week? I've given up emailing them, it seems to have no effect.

[weav]

That's the kind of thing that happens when a station runs lights-out full-auto with nobody minding the store...
Not saying that's the story at 107.7 but the alternative is worse.

[punkdj]

That's the kind of thing that happens when a station runs lights-out full-auto with nobody minding the store...
Not saying that's the story at 107.7 but the alternative is worse.

yup. one of the many reasons  that automation blows.  Ive  heard jocks  on the  bone  introducing  the  wrong bands,   when  voice tracks  get   messed  up and   end up out of order. voicetracks playing on top of eachother... etc...  that  is  what  you get  when  you  cut  the budget so much  you cant afford to have a weekend  jock or a board-op  at the  very least.

[SFStatic]

At some stations, the PD, APD, Music Director, etc. has to be on call 24/7 and log in from home or elsewhere and fix this crap by remote. That's another winning management technique...make sure your programming managers are worn out and never get a second away from the product until they are ground down into dust!

[Todd]

Sad thats going on in market 4.  At the end of the day... it still takes people with pride in their work to download syndication.  Treat your employees poorly... pay them poorly... they will work... poorly.

[DavidKaye]

WTF? Is anybody paying attention over there?  Once in a while is understandable, but every week? I've given up emailing them, it seems to have no effect.

Nope.  Nobody is paying attention.  Sunday night is one of the least profitable dayparts of the week.  Overnight is even worse.  The way radio is today, many stations can't make money nights and weekends unless they use automation.  Nearly every station in the market is on automation after 7pm daily. 

[BnRinBayArea]

At some stations, the PD, APD, Music Director, etc. has to be on call 24/7 and log in from home or elsewhere and fix this crap by remote. That's another winning management technique...make sure your programming managers are worn out and never get a second away from the product until they are ground down into dust!

You know of what you speak, Static!  The 24/7 shift does exactly that... and in some cases, just being ground into dust would be a best case scenario.

[SFStatic]

David's generalization about Sunday night is correct for most, but at least one Bay Area radio station gets it's biggest revenues from a specialty show on Sunday night. Far more money than from morning drive. So the correct answer is "it depends," as is often true. There is always someone who breaks the mold.

[1069_KIFR]

Yes they could, if they wanted too.

[punkdj]

the  bone  has  no one in charge  of programming  at the moment.  so  no one's  gonna take responsiblity  to make  sure that stuff doesnt  happen .