With reference to 'wiping' programmes. A certain local radio station employed an unpaid disabled man to wipe and splice tape, for re-use. When DAT came in it was copy or lose. When DAT was superseded, it was copy or be erased, when 'Radio Man' came in, (£14 million of complete crap without the ability to make a music edit) it was automatic erasure after 30 days.
'So don't think you can have a four week tour and record your show, and we're not paying some one to put it on for you. Find a mate if you've got any, and he'd better come in when we say so, we've sacked the night staff. Don't think you can come in and work after 9pm on a Sunday! We switch the alarms on, we don't care that your show goes out until then.
No you can't have a key for the alarms, we don't care that you've been here 30 years, you're not mainstream and never will be, you'll have to find time to record it if your going off somewhere playing ..what was it again? Oh yes Folk Music or some other sort of rubbish. You fit in with us, after all we are the mighty BBC.
Yes an aptly named thread.