Topics discussed on this morning’s Coffeebreak:
Rick opened the show with discussion of the window sticker that has been grabbing attention of UK fans–“G: The Coach.” If you haven’t heard about this latest craze in UK fandom, you can find the story that was published in the Lexington Herald-Leader at .
Rick plans to get in contact with Ashley Keith, the sticker’s creator, to see about distributing them at the station.
Rick reminded the listeners of the game that will be taking place on the hilltop tonight; and to tune in at 7:00p.m. for the pre-game show, followed by live coverage as the Harrison County Throrobreds battle Lexington Catholic.
Rick extended thanks to Steve Moss, yesterday’s guest.
The first caller for this morning’s open mic forum was Charlene, from Southside Elementary School, who notified everyone of the tailgating party that will begin at 5:30 in front of the school. Concessions will be sold to benefit the fund for the Southside fifth grade-class’ year-end field trip. With the purchase of a $5 ribeye-steak sandwich combo or a $3 hotdog combo one aids the fifth graders in visiting Shakertown, and finalizing the trip with seats to see the Lexington Legends.
The second caller of the day asked what problems the station was experiencing, for they had noticed that the signal had grown week. Rick and Terry explained that a component had burned out on the new transmitter, and was sent off for repair/replacement. Hopefully withing the next few weeks the part will return, be installed, and allow the station to broadcast with a clearer signal.
Rick and Terry mentioned the streaming audio available on WCYN.com.
Rick asked a question as to whether anyone saved any money this year on gasoline, due to the drought. Terry exclaimed that he felt as if he had saved a bit, furthering his statement by explaining that he hadn’t mowed his lawn in nearly two months.
Terry reminded Rick and the listeners that Chris Winkle will be back in the station on Monday. With Chris’ return, morning listeners will once again be able to awake to “Wink in the Mornings” with news, announcement, and much more.
After the first break, Charlie Garnett of the local 5/3 Bank called for a live on air advertisement. 5/3 announced a competition among the local branches in opening the highest number of student/minor checking accounts–with this challenge, Mr. Garnett is asking for Harrisonians to come to his aid. The student/minor checking accounts are “free” accounts, that offer five free non-5/3 ATM transactions. In addition, anyone amongst the first ten student/minor a checking accounts opened today with a minimum of $50 has the opportunity to earn $53 should they keep their account in good standing for the first six months.(Certain rules and conditions may apply. Visit your local 5/3 bank or the website for details). The branch will be open until 6p.m. tonight.
The third caller this morning was the lady who had asked about the Pleasant Street Bridge on Monday’s show. Rick notified her that he had contacted Mr. Fryman at the State Highway Department, and discovered that the state is responsible for the maintenance of the bridge. The caller also asked as to what the excitement at the new recreational park is. Rick explained that there are soccer games going on at the park.
Another woman called in, to suggest that Rick interview the chairperson for her graduating class of UK. Her fifty year reunion is this year. The woman also mentioned that the Lexington Herald-Leader ran a story on tonight’s game.
In the following call, a woman called about the Texaco sign on the side of the garage at the residence on the corner of Church Street and Oddville Avenue. The woman is concerned that the sign may be a hazard of some sort for motorists that pass by. She explained that she had drove by the residence last night, and at first thought that the bright red glow emanating from the side of the garage was a fire.
A few moments later, another woman called to simply state that she loved the Texaco sign.
Rick openly asked to Terry and the listening audience as to whether he was remembering correctly that Northfield Oil had been a Texaco distributor–no affirmation to this query was made.
A gentleman residing on Church Street called in to express his liking of the Texaco sign. He stated that he didn’t see it as a nuisance, nor had he heard of any neighbors complaining. The listener mentioned that he recalls their being two Texaco stations in Cynthiana; one being the location where Custom Cuts now operates, and the other having been located on the corner of Pike and Church streets.
Theresa Philpott called in to state that she loved yesterday’s show, and to offer her opinion that Amber will not stray from local television, for she is more of a hometown girl. Theresa also expressed her joy in seeing people at the new recreational park–she stated that it is a “Welcome sight.”
The final caller announced that Connersville had received 3.1 inches of rain overnight. He, too, stated that he liked the Texaco sign and seeing the use of the new park.
In recap of the show, Rick mentioned the story in the Herald concerning tonights football game. Rick also reminded the audience of the tailgate party at Southside, the promotion at 5/3 Bank, tonight’s pre-game show and live coverage, and invited anyone who wishes to come down to the station to see the “G” sticker.
Today’s Coffeebreak sponsors were:
The Harrison County Board of Education, BluegrassTradingPost.com, Cockrell’s Auto Center, Whalen & Company, Eastside Pharmacy, Jetubs, Bourbon Community Hospital, First United Methodist Church of Cynthiana, and 5/3 Bank.
Man! That one took a while to write… Two hours, in fact…
Okay, so here’s why it took so long:
What I had been doing prior to today was listening to the broadcast over the radio, and take notes in semagic, then reorganize those notes into actual lines and paragraphs during the breaks. Today, I did things differently. I decided to record the show on the computer. So, I killed all unnecessary apps, opened up the stream through Media Player, and recorded with Audacity. I then sat with pen and paper taking notes from the radio, popping the PC headset on whenever I missed something. After the show was over, I reloaded all my extra programs, and set out to transcribed the show. And it took two hours. (Some of that time was taken up by having to review the recording twice to catch what two of the callers had said.)
Anyway, I do have a couple things I’d like to add here…
The title of this entry came from a joke Terry made at the beginning of the program. Rick had stated that things were a bit mixed up this week, and that he had moved things around a couple of times. Apparently there had been some issues with arranging guests (that’d be why we had an open mic day on monday). Terry responded by saying that we had been doing the “coffeebreak shuffle.”
Another thing I’d like to mention is that where the guys mentioned the streaming broadcast, Terry was a bit off in mentioning the delay. Terry had said that there is a delay of one or two seconds. I had a delay of two minutes today. I haven’t timed the delay any other time, but I believe that he’s way off. I dunno. I’ll try again some other time.
I’m also going to see about messing around with the software they’re using… I downloaded it this morning–haven’t played with it yet. I’m guessing that the only tricky part will be to assign some special port, and to open it up on the router and firewall. I doubt If I can get anything to stream without serious latency, for we’re only paying for the el cheapo package… (and this desktop is on it’s last leg)…
oh, yeah, i forgot to emphasize why two hours to blog the show is such a big deal… I had been able to do it in 45 minutes or less… and that was inclusive of fully formatting the post–writing it out, searching for and including the links, tossing in any images, proof-reading, etc…