[rfu-membership] AON Qs, William Jones

[dan blah]

On 4/23/07, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I finally had a chance to listen to AON's show for Friday, Apr. 27.
> Things were better than before -- at least they were pulling things
> _after_ they had obvious issues of content. But this is still missing
> the point that this stuff needs to be previewed before broadcast -- and
> technically they lost their show based on that alone.
>
> It seems from the banter on the show that someone other than the DJs may
> be cutting their CDs. The DJs seem to feel they can let things slip
> through and then chastise whoever it is didn't follow the rules -- but
> it is the DJs responsibility to do that and the DJs who will lose the
> show for not previewing their stuff for any potential problems in advance.
>
> It doesn't help that no one from AON responded to my email, came to the
> meeting last week, or asked for clarification so that they could be sure
> not to run into the same problem again.
>
> So, based on the decision at the last RFU GMM, they should lose the
> show. What does everyone think and what should be our next step?
>
Agreed, they should be done.

> Also, William Jones called me Sunday afternoon about the combination. A
> long conversation ensued, where he thought we should be in contact with
> him before cancelling the show. He claimed to have submitted the survey,
> but I never saw a copy of it from him. I noted he never responded to our
> various compiled lists asking for corrections in case an error was made.
> Of course, if he'd bothered to ever attend a station meeting, this would
> not be the problem it currently is for him.
>
> I told him that he would need to send RFU-membership a message about
> this, but I see nothing yet from him in the archive and told him that
> only the RFU GMM can restore the show at this point.
>
Yeah he knows this from talking to me Sunday afternoon and the sheet
that was on the door.

> The basic problem here is his attitude that once he got the show, he
> need make no further effort to be involved with the station as he has a
> mistaken sense of ownership of this slot once it was granted to him.
> This is exactly the opposite of how the relationship should be between
> programming groups and the station. People have to be proactive members
> and can't simply ignore all other requirements for meeting attendance
> and participation, including staying on the relevant email lists so that
> they  know what's going on with the station.
> Mike Lehman
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-- 
Daniel