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manager Graham Nystrom.
The station’s staff and volunteers had to
create and adjust to the new process.
“That meant creating all new systems:
getting the gear, recording tutorial videos,
writing instruction sheets, fi nding volun-
teers to coordinate exchange of equipment
and sanitizing it between uses,” Nystrom
said. “Also, once they record the shows,
how do we get it from their house to our air
wave? We had to build a new system of fi le
management.”
Longtime KMUN volunteer Merianne
Myers has been in charge of tracking, trans-
porting and trouble shooting recording
equipment as it’s loaned out to each volun-
teer producing a show.
“It’s a big jigsaw puzzle,” Myers said.
“There are a whole bunch of us building
that puzzle and we’re not all in the same
room.”
Myers has been helping to carry the load
for the station’s small staff.
“I have a database. I hand out equip-
ment and keep track of it, take it back and
make sure everything is working, and give
it to the next person. That’s my job,” Myers
said. “I think of it as a librarian with tech
support.”
All three stations leaders said the pan-
demic has been unchart ed territory for their
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operations.
“There’s no game plan. There’s no map
to follow,” Barbosa said.
The stations leaders are not sure when or
if they’ll be able to return to how they pro-
duced radio before. In the meantime, they
are adapting to keep community voices on
the air.
“There’s been a lot of dancing and cre-
ativity, thinking outside the box and fi gur-
ing out solutions,” Nystrom said.
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