Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2018 22:12:16 GMT
Hobby Meets Business
Talking about my own stations, but the same circumstances could arise for anyone...
At the time I entered into "program agreements" with producers, particular terms and conditions were agreed to.
Let's take WFMT, the World's Fine Arts Classical Network.
I introduced my station as KDX Worldround Radio and agreed to carry the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Wednesdays at 8 PM CDT. That created the responsibility to practice careful scheduling so that when 8 PM on Wednesday rolled around the earlier schedule didn't run overtime, or, if it ran short, I had to fill with something until it was officially 8 o'clock.
Something I couldn't do under that agreement would be to run the Los Angeles Philharmonic on my other station, KHZ.
If I moved the Philharmonic to a different time I was obligated to notify WFMT.
All those details are more businesslike than they are hobby-like.
Many free programs come with "agreements". Another example being a program like "Law and Disorder", a weekly program from WBAI offered by leading civil rights attorneys. They ask for the time of transmission in exchange for placing a link to my KDX Website, and again I need to watch that I stick to the right time and station.
This all came to mind yesterday when I flipped the stations and put all KDX programming on KHZ. I started wondering how many agreements were being violated, so now I'm going to switch back to the original plan rather than notify producers about changes.
It's a lot like a marriage. My radio station wants a diamond and a fur coat.
Talking about my own stations, but the same circumstances could arise for anyone...
At the time I entered into "program agreements" with producers, particular terms and conditions were agreed to.
Let's take WFMT, the World's Fine Arts Classical Network.
I introduced my station as KDX Worldround Radio and agreed to carry the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Wednesdays at 8 PM CDT. That created the responsibility to practice careful scheduling so that when 8 PM on Wednesday rolled around the earlier schedule didn't run overtime, or, if it ran short, I had to fill with something until it was officially 8 o'clock.
Something I couldn't do under that agreement would be to run the Los Angeles Philharmonic on my other station, KHZ.
If I moved the Philharmonic to a different time I was obligated to notify WFMT.
All those details are more businesslike than they are hobby-like.
Many free programs come with "agreements". Another example being a program like "Law and Disorder", a weekly program from WBAI offered by leading civil rights attorneys. They ask for the time of transmission in exchange for placing a link to my KDX Website, and again I need to watch that I stick to the right time and station.
This all came to mind yesterday when I flipped the stations and put all KDX programming on KHZ. I started wondering how many agreements were being violated, so now I'm going to switch back to the original plan rather than notify producers about changes.
It's a lot like a marriage. My radio station wants a diamond and a fur coat.
