C has been pretty good about deceit thus far -- C comes and confronts staff and board members about letting the Eeevil onto the air quite regularly, and has made C's intent quite clear in the scheduling thing.
"First dibs" has been problematic as well; we have such a scheduling crunch at the studio that to reserve timeslots for anyone would be unfair to those people who get bumped off the bottom -- I can hear the screams now "I got bumped, but P's show got a special reserved position! are you trying to *promote* P's show?" (I might even be the one screaming!)
I've been trying to think of a weighted lottery instead, or (crazy thought) some kind of Yankee Swap maneuver that would allow forced trades with somebody who's listed a different slot as a similar preference. But that seems kinda overkill. I'm also wondering if we could pass a staff rule that "competitive/blackout scheduling is discouraged; we're here to give alternative voices a chance, not to restrict each other's points-of-view" so that at least we could call this behavior out. Maybe (I hope!) that's all that might be needed.
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Date: 2004-01-27 05:16 pm (UTC)"First dibs" has been problematic as well; we have such a scheduling crunch at the studio that to reserve timeslots for anyone would be unfair to those people who get bumped off the bottom -- I can hear the screams now "I got bumped, but P's show got a special reserved position! are you trying to *promote* P's show?" (I might even be the one screaming!)
I've been trying to think of a weighted lottery instead, or (crazy thought) some kind of Yankee Swap maneuver that would allow forced trades with somebody who's listed a different slot as a similar preference. But that seems kinda overkill. I'm also wondering if we could pass a staff rule that "competitive/blackout scheduling is discouraged; we're here to give alternative voices a chance, not to restrict each other's points-of-view" so that at least we could call this behavior out. Maybe (I hope!) that's all that might be needed.