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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>When new technologies come through the door, they are frequently
not offered to older workers. Management draws a line between the new
"computers' and the old "tape machines" and offers what little
orientation and training is given to office girls and interns instead of
experienced operational people. Then when they have have cleared the
landscape of the "old school people who couldn't adapt," you get all
the blessings of robotic cameras -- lousy camera work, the same shot everyday
at the same point in every show, talent trying to rock around to get in the
shot, or every shot super loose so that it's not obvious the framing is wrong
or that the video is out of focus, almost no motion in the cameras at all
because nobody trusts them to be stable when you try to move them live, and the
inexperienced people who operate the console often don't have the knowledge to
improve the shots anyway. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> Then when you have the on air look of the
station determined by the low rent help over in the office pool you get all the
blessings of full station automation, competing spots hard cut video to video,
upcut programs, wildly varying audio levels, wrong events on the air like
yesterday's promos today, long periods of black when the computer doesn't
understand what the log service in Freakistan put into the list and
the maintenance guy has to drive in from the suburbs to the 'lights out' master
control and on and on. Yes, it's certainly good we've gotten those
expensive old farts out of the way so we can have all these new cheaper ways of
doing things. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Bob Bruner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>W9TAJ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>So it’s not just in the UK, that we have this problem
Bob<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Trevor UK member<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>G8CJS also<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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