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AI weather announcer on Ontario radio
I have an MP3 audio clip where the weather is given over CIHR Heart FM Woodstock by someone / something that self-identifies as "AI Lola". YouTube no longer supports my Firefox browser. Is there another easy way to post a clip here, or somewhere I can link to, here? I didn't know AI was being used for more than liners and such.
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So it's AI Layla, not AI Lola. Interesting to see the same station referenced in the article. Thanks.
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AI is possibly a fairly cheap option, though I honestly don't know what costs and other factors might be involved. But I do wonder what stations might do about overnight or other on-air talent. My first thought would be to engage young people to do overnight drives. Give them a range of music options, with parameters, but acknowledge it's overnight hours and the CRTC isn't fussy and the listenership is low. Hire responsibly, give them some training on the equipment and what to do on air, and give them increasingly free rein. Maybe tie in with high school and college co-op and college education programs or internships. I realize overnight is a burden because students need to be awake and functional during the day. But there may be ways to deal with this - for instance, some internships and co-ops are / could be in segregated blocks or periods of time. But I do see benefits from engaging local community members in your operation. I'm not purporting to have a neatly packaged idea here - more that management thinking needs to change. Betcha some of the young punks would pick up on the technology really fast and even eventually eclipse what the regular personnel know.
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Re: AI weather announcer on Ontario radio
The ship has long sailed on training students in the overnight hours....... it's more profitable to have nobody on at all, there's no difference in ratings
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torontostan wrote:
The ship has long sailed on training students in the overnight hours....... it's more profitable to have nobody on at all, there's no difference in ratings
There's an argument that's it wouldn't be specifically about those shifts, but rather creating bench-strength.
Problem is, the students wanting to do that don't exist, nor mostly the programs themselves.
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The ship has long sailed on training students in the overnight hours....... it's more profitable to have nobody on at all, there's no difference in ratings
There's an argument that's it wouldn't be specifically about those shifts, but rather creating bench-strength.
Problem is, the students wanting to do that don't exist, nor mostly the programs themselves.
Not that it matters but are full overnights rated now? IIRC, the window from 1a-5a wasn't rated when I worked overnights.
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The ship has long sailed on training students in the overnight hours....... it's more profitable to have nobody on at all, there's no difference in ratings
There's an argument that's it wouldn't be specifically about those shifts, but rather creating bench-strength.
Problem is, the students wanting to do that don't exist, nor mostly the programs themselves.Not that it matters but are full overnights rated now? IIRC, the window from 1a-5a wasn't rated when I worked overnights.
They are but it doesn't matter. The odds of a meter wearer being influenced whether someone mediocre is on or nobody is on is very low.