Completely disagree. She’s perfect. It’s a much needed relief* from the hard hitting shock jocks that surround her throughout the rest of the schedule. Not to mention, Szeps during arvos on the ABC.
*Don’t get me wrong - I enjoy the shock jocks and Szeps. But Knight brings with her what is a relaxed program, which I think is much welcomed.
Sunday Herald Sun reports that the “Is that You, 3AW” cash giveaway competition has ended up costing 3AW almost $20,000.
On the final day of the competition, $18,000 was up for grabs on Neil Mitchell’s program, and a listener was awarded it when answering “Hello, is that you 3AW” and correctly naming the code word. However, listeners complained that she shouldn’t have won because she said “Hello”.
3AW acknowledged the error but let her keep the prize, and decided to keep the competition going by putting $19,000 on offer, which was won by a caller to Tom Elliott’s Drive show.
I get the feeling these type of comps just don’t work on talkback stations. It’s almost as if all the announcers would simply prefer to talk news & current affairs than to run FM-like tactics.
Poor Ray having to put up with the same tech difficulties everyone has to deal with from time to time.
Provided this wasn’t caused by a tech being reckless, that’s completely unacceptable behavior from Ray. Sure some of the buttons and screens weren’t working, but they were still able to get audio out so he should have been able to continue.
OB’s are something you have to test out well in advance long before you are on air - if you turn up 1/2 an hour before you are due on-air and something is amiss you leave yourself nowhere to go. For important networked OB’s like say State of Origin coverage which usually starts at 6pm, you need to be there at 3pm or even earlier to setup and check everything is ok. If not you have 3 hours to sort it.
I would question Nine’s technical staffing at 4BC - there seems to be a preference in radio nowadays for production types rather than old school tech’s. The old techs used to plan this stuff out and even had a plan B to get on air - the talent just had to turn up 1/2 an hour before. Obviously not so nowadays
This would’ve been the first networked OB at the Ekka. Previous programs were 4BC shows only, so I’d imagine the issue was because it was Hadley’s networked program.
4G is notorious for working fine when the venues are empty but getting congested when they fill up with people because at least half the visitors have a 4G handset on them. A landline data service is the only guaranteed way to get an OB running from a crowded venue - use 4G as a backup if it’s an important OB. Perhaps Ray’s problem related to foldback from 2GB if he was networked.
Sorry @FootyKick for replying to your 6PR post - a small mobile is not the best user experience on MediaSpy.