Automation: Agent of Radio Change
Cassandra Lynn Stone · NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) · 1979
Although radio station managers have recognized as a major problem that automation limits spontaneity and ready response to community needs, they have capitalized on its increased efficiency and consistent sound while experimenting with the system to overcome its build-in disadvantages. Even though an automated system can be adapted for response to immediate community needs, many programmers have not obligated themselves to adapt the system toward serving the public interest.