Hilltown Families

[Stefan Ward-Wheten]

Not to add to everyone's plate, but it seems as though Hilltown Families has gone rogue. This is the third time I've heard one of their shows this week in blocks where they aren't supposed to be; obviously Station Playlist is pulling their shows into general automation for some reason. I'm currently listening to Christmas music in March on Valley Free Radio. Incidents like this are why I've advocated for greater curatorial focus on our open slots.

Here's the minutes:

[Joshua Braska]

I heard something last night that said J Magic was coming up next on my way home at midnight. I think something must be mixed up in automation.

Sent from my AyePhone.

On Mar 14, 2013, at 10:00 PM, Stefan Ward-Wheten <swardw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Not to add to everyone's plate, but it seems as though Hilltown Families has gone rogue. This is the third time I've heard one of their shows this week in blocks where they aren't supposed to be; obviously Station Playlist is pulling their shows into general automation for some reason. I'm currently listening to Christmas music in March on Valley Free Radio. Incidents like this are why I've advocated for greater curatorial focus on our open slots.
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[Bob Gardner]

Yes Josh!  That makes a lot more sense [than Sienna has gone rogue].  We should always investigate first, before

jumping to such a conclusion. By-the-way, who gets the email valleyf...@googlegroups.com?  I never heard

of that one.  -bg

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I heard something last night that said J Magic was coming up next on my way home at midnight. I think something must be mixed up in automation.

Sent from my AyePhone.

On Mar 14, 2013, at 10:00 PM, Stefan Ward-Wheten <swardw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Not to add to everyone's plate, but it seems as though Hilltown Families has gone rogue. This is the third time I've heard one of their shows this week in blocks where they aren't supposed to be; obviously Station Playlist is pulling their shows into general automation for some reason. I'm currently listening to Christmas music in March on Valley Free Radio. Incidents like this are why I've advocated for greater curatorial focus on our open slots.
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[Stefan Ward-Wheten]

I didn't mean to suggest that the producers of the show were somehow responsible for inserting it at odd times into the player. Clearly this is a software issue rather than a human error. I bring this up only to make the point that exercising more oversight on what goes into the blank spots on the weekly schedule map might make problems like this easier to avoid and generally improve the quality and topicality of content played in those hours.

The email issue is unclear. I'm fairly confident that I sent my previous email to the GoogleGroups email for the board, since I used one of the previous threads to get the address. Maybe this is a duplicate listserv or an abbreviated name for it?

-Stefan

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[Steve Truempy]

Someone told m there was an amazing show on around 7 to 9 pm.

Trumpy

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Stefan Ward-Wheten <swardw...@gmail.com> wrote:

Not to add to everyone's plate, but it seems as though Hilltown Families has gone rogue. This is the third time I've heard one of their shows this week in blocks where they aren't supposed to be; obviously Station Playlist is pulling their shows into general automation for some reason. I'm currently listening to Christmas music in March on Valley Free Radio. Incidents like this are why I've advocated for greater curatorial focus on our open slots.

Here's the minutes:

[Bob Gardner]

Stefan: yes, maybe I was myself was jumping to conclusions in interpreting your email. 

I thought you thought the show was being devious.   -bg

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From: Stefan Ward-Wheten <swardw...@gmail.com>
To: Bob Gardner <masss...@yahoo.com>
Cc: Joshua Braska <joshua...@yahoo.com>; "valleyf...@googlegroups.com Radio" <valleyf...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [valleyfreeradio:7073] Hilltown Families

[Steve Truempy]

On the email thing. Bob when you signed me on to receive emails this was one of them. 

[Doug Reuter]

It looks like some shows were made into spot groups (these are what's psas and show promos would go under ). I will fix it this wknd.

Looking at that hour there are also a lot of tracks that are crossed out.

These two things mean someone was both in Creator and the audio files on the PC changing, renaming,  moving, or deleting them. This simply cannot be done.  When that happens files don't play, hour length shows get played when a station id should play, and you hear Christmas music on Pi day.

If this email doesn't make 100% sense then please don't change any files on that computer. Don't add, delete, make new folders, or do anything on the automation computer.  If you want music added put in in a folder and put it on the desk top and I'll add when I see it there. It won't play that same week anyway automatically regardless.

I'll change the set up around so more local music gets played. If you know what type that would help immensely for the flow.

Thanks,
Doug

PS please don't change anything on that PC and Johanna I'll add 4days of Pakman at the same time

On Mar 14, 2013 10:00 PM, "Stefan Ward-Wheten" <swardw...@gmail.com> wrote:

Not to add to everyone's plate, but it seems as though Hilltown Families has gone rogue. This is the third time I've heard one of their shows this week in blocks where they aren't supposed to be; obviously Station Playlist is pulling their shows into general automation for some reason. I'm currently listening to Christmas music in March on Valley Free Radio. Incidents like this are why I've advocated for greater curatorial focus on our open slots.

Here's the minutes:

[Karen Doherty]

Can someone direct me to information about how to unsubscribe from this list?

Thanks!
Karen

[Bob Gardner]

At the bottom of this page is an unsubscribe link.  If that doesn't work let me know. Bob

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