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Friday, August 27, 2004
Subscriberthon Update
The RRR FM subscriberthon went quite well. They managed to break the 10,000 subscribers barrier for the first time in the station's history. I'm a little bit dubious about that number though, because I've seen how the subscriber database works. If a volunteer is entering subscriber details and they go back a screen to check something, when they hit the button to go to the payment screen again a new subscription is created in the database. So there are a lot of duplicates in there. In addition, while most people pay for their subscription on the spot with a credit card, some choose to pay later, and I'm sure there a few who decide not to follow through on their pledge. But still, it was a great effort.
And having been a phone volunteer (phone-voll) for four years now, I've learnt a few things:
Putting Faces to Names/Voices: One of the big benefits obviously is seeing your favourite show's announcer/s. I'll never forget the time I turned up to a Tiger Beat slot and ended up describing the taste of fish rice porridge to David Vodicka on air. Bastard.
Pizza/Chips/Snakes: The phone room coordinators (henceforth known as 'phrcs') do their best to load up the volls with pizza, jelly snakes, chips & coffee, so that the volls don't become sluggish. I don't know how much energy you really expend moving a mouse across 6 square inches of desk, but at least eating helps pass the time. And of course if you're a student, a few jelly snakes and a bowl of chips is probably your biggest meal of the day.
Drinking: Those night time slots can go pretty slowly. When you hear presenters say "there's 8 lines free so ring up and subscribe" they actually mean there are 10 lines free and no-one's called for about 15 minutes. And the last caller didn't actually subscribe - they just wanted to request Public Enemy & Anthrax' "Bring tha noize". That's why I like to deposit a six-pack in the fridge and work my way through it over the next three hours. Offering someone a tin is also a nice way of building trust with the voll sitting next to you. And drinking is much better than Solitaire. Speaking of which:
Solitaire: Start-->Programs-->Accessories-->Games-->Solitaire. Go for it.
Avoid the Breakfaster slot: The Breakfasters slots are usually pretty busy, and often quite manic. There is a core group of volls who do Breakfast - they gather every year, stake out their favourite chairs in front of the studio window and then catch up on how the kids are going etc. One guy always brings some home baked treats, another guy maniacally tries to answer every call, and they all sit around talking about Chris Hatzos and Kate Langbroek. This isn't a bad thing, it's just the way it is. They're all very nice, but it's all too freaky for me.
Final tip: Don't ever let the Station Manager get away with bagging loud guitar music. Every time a presenter plays a Fugazi track she stands in the phone room saying "Oh that loud guitar music drives the subscribers away". If that were true, all the RRR subscribers would be listening to 3MP Time Warp Radio.
And having been a phone volunteer (phone-voll) for four years now, I've learnt a few things:
Putting Faces to Names/Voices: One of the big benefits obviously is seeing your favourite show's announcer/s. I'll never forget the time I turned up to a Tiger Beat slot and ended up describing the taste of fish rice porridge to David Vodicka on air. Bastard.
Pizza/Chips/Snakes: The phone room coordinators (henceforth known as 'phrcs') do their best to load up the volls with pizza, jelly snakes, chips & coffee, so that the volls don't become sluggish. I don't know how much energy you really expend moving a mouse across 6 square inches of desk, but at least eating helps pass the time. And of course if you're a student, a few jelly snakes and a bowl of chips is probably your biggest meal of the day.
Drinking: Those night time slots can go pretty slowly. When you hear presenters say "there's 8 lines free so ring up and subscribe" they actually mean there are 10 lines free and no-one's called for about 15 minutes. And the last caller didn't actually subscribe - they just wanted to request Public Enemy & Anthrax' "Bring tha noize". That's why I like to deposit a six-pack in the fridge and work my way through it over the next three hours. Offering someone a tin is also a nice way of building trust with the voll sitting next to you. And drinking is much better than Solitaire. Speaking of which:
Solitaire: Start-->Programs-->Accessories-->Games-->Solitaire. Go for it.
Avoid the Breakfaster slot: The Breakfasters slots are usually pretty busy, and often quite manic. There is a core group of volls who do Breakfast - they gather every year, stake out their favourite chairs in front of the studio window and then catch up on how the kids are going etc. One guy always brings some home baked treats, another guy maniacally tries to answer every call, and they all sit around talking about Chris Hatzos and Kate Langbroek. This isn't a bad thing, it's just the way it is. They're all very nice, but it's all too freaky for me.
Final tip: Don't ever let the Station Manager get away with bagging loud guitar music. Every time a presenter plays a Fugazi track she stands in the phone room saying "Oh that loud guitar music drives the subscribers away". If that were true, all the RRR subscribers would be listening to 3MP Time Warp Radio.
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