by Pete Fasciano, Executive Director 02/18/2024
“Well, it’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon.” This was the leadoff line to launch into Garrison Keiller’s wildly cheeky stories from ‘back home’ on his weekly NPR radio program, ‘A Prairie Home Companion’.
There are indeed actual quiet weeks.
They do exist. Even in our modern, digitally fast-paced, urgent world of business, there’s a saying that sums it all up.
“I wish like Hell it would slow down and I’m deathly afraid it will.”
In what might be viewed as ‘a quiet week’ there is necessary activity. It might not be filled with the flashy headliner action that offers up bragging rights. Rather, it’s the week that’s filled with all the nameless, (often thankless) invisible tasks and projects that make those notable, (braggable?) weeks possible.
The highlights:
Sunday: Gather and file all radio station program, transmitter and ‘Emergency Alert’ test logs for the previous week. Verify that the transmitter is in good order.
Update financial forecast information for our monthly board meeting.
Monday: Review and finish preparing information for the noon board meeting.
At 1:30p meet with MIAA to plan for upcoming ‘Power rankings’ programs.
At 4p, investigate audio issues in the Town Hall Chambers TV control room.
Tuesday: Scan/organize invoices, receipts, statements, notices and other docs.
Prepare all 2023 business files for our annual audit.
Wednesday: Work with Dell computer’s technician to replace a failed graphics card in Edit system 1. Coordinate the updates for our central video file servers.
Thursday: Record our radio program, ‘More Perfect Union’. Coordinate updates for our LAN device addresses and access codes.
Friday: Meet with Jim Derick, Nick Remissong and new volunteers for wfpr.fm.
Design, install new video distribution gear and wiring to update our program control system for Zoom meetings in the Town Hall Training Room.
Saturday: Prepare our program schedule and post online for the upcoming week – and write the weekly background story that you are now reading.
The days are also peppered with ongoing staff discussions about upcoming dates and programs. All in, it’s a humdrum ‘quiet’ week. A good week. One that makes those other weeks possible. Even in such a (supposedly) quiet week we wonder,
“Where does the time go?”
Thanks for listening to 102.9 wfpr●fm.And – as always – thanks for watching.
Get this week's program guide for Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) online http://franklin.tv/programguide.pdf
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