Thank you, Amy. She's doing okay so far. No negative reactions to the Chemo since Monday morning.
As for the Station...I really don't know what can be done. The Alumni are not alone in thinking that students aren't interested in keeping WBNY around. There's a very small handful of people at the station that even remotely seem to care what happens to the place. Caroline, Tom McCray, Karl, and a few others have all in their own way brought this exact issue up to the e-board several times. I know that the consensus among them is that none of us seem to want their help. That's not necessarily true, but it's not entirely false either. To me it seems like there is a major lack of communication on both sides. It's been addressed before, but nothing's been done about it.
A huge problem is that the e-board (as a whole) is not doing anything. And the one's who are doing something often have to put their own tasks aside to do something someone else isn't. There's also a good portion of us that don't know what kind of work and time committment their position entails so nothing gets done. Our General Manager and Program Director are afraid of confrontation, suspension, and running the whole show. If someone screws up -- oh well! They are allowed to stay because "we don't have enough people as it is to run the station." The Production Director can't do much of anything because our engineer cannot get new carts on the digi-cart and the old cart recording machine is broken. Therefore the Underwriting Director isn't getting underwriting recorded. We had a complete lack of promotions this year in the way of promoting the station AND gaining new staff members. It's sort of a snowball effect.
Things have just gotten worse this summer. I'm the station for a few hours a day once or twice a week and it's pretty much deserted. I'd venture to say we're only on the air about 6-9 hours a day this summer -- and that's on a good day. The only living people I've seen around the station have actually been Alumni. I've been lying through my teeth to industry people trying to assure them that WBNY is on the air and we're still going strong. It's really sad to see things in such poor shape, especially considering the 25th anniversary and all.
As for the Station...I really don't know what can be done. The Alumni are not alone in thinking that students aren't interested in keeping WBNY around. There's a very small handful of people at the station that even remotely seem to care what happens to the place. Caroline, Tom McCray, Karl, and a few others have all in their own way brought this exact issue up to the e-board several times. I know that the consensus among them is that none of us seem to want their help. That's not necessarily true, but it's not entirely false either. To me it seems like there is a major lack of communication on both sides. It's been addressed before, but nothing's been done about it.
A huge problem is that the e-board (as a whole) is not doing anything. And the one's who are doing something often have to put their own tasks aside to do something someone else isn't. There's also a good portion of us that don't know what kind of work and time committment their position entails so nothing gets done. Our General Manager and Program Director are afraid of confrontation, suspension, and running the whole show. If someone screws up -- oh well! They are allowed to stay because "we don't have enough people as it is to run the station." The Production Director can't do much of anything because our engineer cannot get new carts on the digi-cart and the old cart recording machine is broken. Therefore the Underwriting Director isn't getting underwriting recorded. We had a complete lack of promotions this year in the way of promoting the station AND gaining new staff members. It's sort of a snowball effect.
Things have just gotten worse this summer. I'm the station for a few hours a day once or twice a week and it's pretty much deserted. I'd venture to say we're only on the air about 6-9 hours a day this summer -- and that's on a good day. The only living people I've seen around the station have actually been Alumni. I've been lying through my teeth to industry people trying to assure them that WBNY is on the air and we're still going strong. It's really sad to see things in such poor shape, especially considering the 25th anniversary and all.
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