Hey all, it's Sharathon - our yearly time when we come to our audience and ask for monetary gifts - time of year. We are a 100% listener supported station, so this time is absolutely critical for keeping us off the air and commercial free. That's also one of the best things about our station...being that it's commercial free. Sharathon is a HUGE production to put on. We have 48 phones staffed 24 hrs a day (well it gets down to half that overnight, since we don't get as many calls then), which makes us need upwards of ONE THOUSAND volunteers to come in and take calls, do security, etc. We plan for months for this, and it all comes down to today, tomorrow, and Friday.
Today is day ONE of our three day Sharathon, and with it being the first day, we experienced the usual start-up-issues that we have had every year I've been here. Usually though, the issues we have are decent sized, but ones we can normally not affect the production. Not this year though. Things started smooth, and then the phones stopped working. Let me clarify that...the first 12 phones had no issues, but any calls past that would work until the volunteer picked up the phone. Once they did, they lost connection to the caller. After what seemed like eternity, we were able to get one of our phone guys in and found that the issue was caused by a few different things that I won't bore you with the details about. From then, it's been the usual "Hey, we need this to do that...that to do this..." etc, etc, etc type of issues to resolve. Now though, it's 2:45 (I came in at 5:30am), and things have seemed to calm down. I sneeked away to my office for a minute of calm and quiet since I needed it, and since my caffeine high is coming down. I'm working from 8:30am-6:30pm, but with it being a crucial time of the year for us, and with it being so much fun (not to mention, such an amazing thing to be around and be a part of each year), that I usually end up working more hours than that.
I'll try to update at least once a day on here, showing how we're doing with our goals and where we are currently...throw some pics on here, etc...but to hear and see what's going on, hop onto www.ksbj.org . You can listen to the webstream and/or watch the webcam that we have up that shows only a portion of "phone central". If you are listening or watching, drop me a comment and let me know what you think!
On a side note, Belinda's folks are coming in this evening, and her brother, Tanner, is getting in town tomorrow or Friday. It stinks that I will miss spending more time with them, so I'm praying that things run smoothly while I'm away to negate the need for me to come in more.
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