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		<title>Engineering Follies &#8211; Focus on the Engineer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barry Mishkind]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2015 07:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Got a story? &#8211; please share it with us!) Sometimes you get out there troubleshooting and run into something that really is almost hard to believe. Yes, sometimes even the engineer can be the problem (There have always been some silly/cranky/brain dead engineers out there, too). So, engineers tell some stories on ourselves. In fact, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Engineering Follies &#8211; Dealing With the Station Staff</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Wallington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 07:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Exhibit 3 &#8211; Restarting the Automation Years ago, I received a call from the Sunday Morning Gospel DJ saying that the Maestro automation had locked. I proceeded to tell him to put a CD on and reboot the computer. Of course, I was then asked how to do that. I told him to click on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barry Mishkind]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Exhibit 5: Kate, our morning drive Co-host, also does voice-tracking for an evening music-oriented couple of hours. Kate was talking with a listener, one day. During the conversation, the listener stopped to ask again, who was she speaking with &#38; what was her position? Kate said she was the Morning Co-host, which is her official [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barry Mishkind]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Exhibit 11: GM: Don&#8217;t Hang Up On Me! I once had a station go off the air while I was in the studios, so I hightailed it to the transmitter to see what was up.  When I got there the phone was ringing with the station&#8217;s G.M. on the line.  I asked him if I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Brain Dead DJs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barry Mishkind]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Exhibit 10: The Poor Man&#8217;s Arbitron Some people got high school summer jobs in the local McDonalds. My high school job was on the air, spinning records at the local AM daytimer during the long summer days. The station&#8217;s antenna just happened to be in a tidal swamp. One day I started my shift at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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