[rfu-membership] AON Qs, William Jones

[Noel L. Vivar]

dan blah wrote:
> 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.
> 

I concur. They are being fairly blatant about flaunting the rules. It is 
the dj's responsibility to screen whatever he/she puts on air (cd, 
guest, whatever). Also, it doesn't help that they didn't respond to your 
  email.

>> 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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