<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9111">Bottom line: Program Director is responsible for keeping the steady stream of programming going out on air. Job description may differ according to place, time, etc.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9125"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9112">Liz (former PD at K-elsewhere)<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9009"><span></span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9013" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9012" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9011" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9035" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9010" size="2" face="Arial"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9050"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9049" style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> King Collins <king@greenmac.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, November 4, 2015 8:55 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Kzyxtalk] "fact" checking<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9015" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv1014240657"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9014">Fact checking _ work of the Program Director<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9021"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9017"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9016"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9020">Jim Heid wrote:</div><br class="yiv1014240657Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9019" type="cite"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9018" class="yiv1014240657Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;">Do you know what a program director does, John? I do -- my father was one for many years at radio stations in San Francisco, Tuscon, and Pittsburgh.</span></blockquote></div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9051">It would be much more interesting to be more empirical. Jim, you know your technical stuff and you are very personable (collegial). You and Bob (Laughton) have a very good program "Point and Click."</div><div><br></div><div>1)What, in your view, is the work of a Program Director? I'd like us to be more scientific about the discussion, which includes laying out what the discussion is about. </div><div><br></div><div>Some questions for Jim:</div><div><br></div><div>And also, to understand this we need to know more about your Dad's experience. I don't mean these questions to be personal. But the nice thing about your Dad's experience is that it actually happened!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9084"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9083">2) What kind of technology did he use?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9082"><br></div><div>3) What was the demographic of his stations? Size of potential listening audience? Power of the transmitters </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9081"><br></div><div>5) Were they commercial or public or community stations, urban or rural.</div><div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9080">Thanks for bringing this discussion down to earth.</div><div><br></div><div>For KZYXtalk,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9079">King Collins</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446659085695_9078">KZYX board member 2003-2005</div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>