In any organization of significant size, there’s a sales department and an operations department. There are three principles that apply:

• They need each other.
• They don’t understand each other.
• Often, they flat-out hate each other.

So it is with radio stations. When an advertising salesperson sells a commercial schedule, the vision of the client travels from the client through the seller to the Production Director. And although the technology has changed since this was recorded in 1995, the interaction still goes a lot like this:

Hat tip to my ex-colleague Bill Cooper for alerting me to this. And a salute to Clear Channel Production Directors past and present: Matt Jones, Bill Stevens, and Todd Tolces.

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