Fete Lifestyle Magazine July 2016 - Tech Issue | Page 27

Welcome to 2016 where digital technology is widely used in radio stations throughout the country. Digital is great in the way that it makes everything easier to program with fewer technical issues. I don’t have to scramble to find the next song. No more stacks of records, carts or CD’s for my show. No more handling vinyl, no more cool album covers. Nope, I just sit there and push buttons. That’s it. I push a button and talk and then push a button to start the song. There are no more quick--fixes, no more thrills of figuring out how to fix the music. It’s all there for me. In other words, although all is great in music land perhaps we’d better be careful what we wish for.