Search the site...

Jim Dedelow (JED) - Hammond, IN
  • Blog
    • About Jim
  • Blog
    • About Jim

God is testing us

12/10/2014

 
Stike three. 

On Thanksgiving Day, our main computer went out. Had to run the station off of an Itunes player for a few hours. And since we were gonna put in an entirely new automation system next year, we didn't want to spend a bunch of dough to fix the existing system. So we purchased the Arrakis system and we'll be installing it over the next few weeks. So for now we're limping around with a backup system that has trouble reading the satellite triggers. Some dead air here and there for a few moments. Yikes.
Yesterday at basketball, my dad warned me - You know, you keep having those moments of dead air and you're gonna lose customers, listeners.

That was really the final straw. Or was it?

​On Monday, Harlow the afternoon host sounded choppy. Not him but his feed from new studio to transmitter. Our network VPN guy and I spent hours this week trying to find the problem... and we determined that it's Comcast that's messed up. They're checking it. For now, we're operating on a backup AT&T system. Hooray for redundancy.

So that would be strike two. Last night, producer Ryan called a tech meeting. Kubic, Harlow, Amanda, Debbie, Rob Ellis, Ryan, Angel... did I miss anyone. We discussed the plan to roll out Arrakis, a training schedule and so forth. We're all pretty excited about the upgrade... and apprehensive about the installation and training. We have plans to train and install over the holidays and roll it out on Jan. 5. That's the plan... and God is laughing.

On the way out of the meeting at the new studio last night, Ryan and I did a live test of our backup system. Worked fine. Then we showed up and tried to start it up at 515 this morning.... and it didn't work. I nearly went futures trader and started throwing things. I may have even felt sorry for myself for a moment... before I got in my car to zip down to the old studio. Ryan called me during the drive. "Come back. I fixed it." 

Strike three. Today the Purdue Calumet Radio and TV Performance class did their final shows. They had callers, they reintroduced themselves several times during each of their ten-minute shows. They laughed. Their sound was decent. I am proud of them and can't believe the magic that can happen during live education on AM radio. I'm not sure where this discovery will lead but you never know. Good night.
    Wampum
    Picture
    I run radio stations and a streaming video network in Hammond, Ind., and write this blog.

     Blog Archives

    February 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    July 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    September 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    March 2013
    August 2005


    RSS Feed

Picture
About   |  Advertise  |   Contact
7150 Indianapolis Blvd, Hammond, IN 46324 |   Map
Office: 219.844-1230 |  Studio: 219.845-1100
​Debbie@wjob1230.com
Listen Live
© 2017 JED.tv and Vazquez Development LLC