Bah Humbug Beaumont Hospital

bbability

I heard the awful news this evening from a current presenter on Beaumont Radio, the hospital have decided to pull the plug on the hospital station for good only a week after Glen Lee's untimely death. I am shocked and appalled by their decision. I think everyone knows the station was not in the condition it was many years ago. However closing it a few days before christmas and a week after its longest serving presenter dies is a bit of a disgrace if you ask me. Anyone who is or was involved with Beaumont Hospital Radio over the past twenty years will know about all the good times and the bad. More recently the lack of interest from Hospital management and staff who were being paid to run the station but left it all to Glen to run. The heat in the studio was a problem on and off for the past couple of years. Log books were removed from the stations studio but having said all that the BCI never once took a real interest in the problems out there. They won't have to worry about it anymore. Not that they did anyway. As one person from hospital management said to a presenter the other day or something along the lines off "hospital radio is a thing of the past". She got her way in the end...

monkeyfudge

That's a real shame.

I did a lot of work setting up a computerised system that could automate the station when there weren't any presenters on air and I even gave training in digital sound editing... But it never worked as the computer would constantly overheat from the temperature in that studio. Getting the air conditioning fixed was always next to impossible due to the ridiculous chain of bureaucracy in that hospital.