Re: [HCDX] WRTH 2004

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andy:

Thanks for the comprehensive explanation of the dilemma this poses to a 
publisher of the WRTH (and a first-hand one at that.)  One question, 
though.

You say that the broadcasters all want to hold their information back 
until the last possible moment.  Then this is not just an accident of 
poor planning or last minute decisionmaking?
Why would a station want to do such a thing?  It seems so illogical.  
Can you explain further?

John Figliozzi
Halfmoon, NY

On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 01:52  PM, Andy Sennitt wrote:

> > For a consideration to WRTH publisher in the future.
> > Now we're aldready in mid November 2003 yet. Usually yearly WRTH is
> > published at the end of January the next year. As we all know
> > that the B-03
> > schedule was started at the end of October, so we're late getting
> > the latest
> > winter schedule for the period end of Oct 03 - Jan 04 if '04 edition 
> > was
> > published in Jan 04.
> > My question is: can WRTH be published early each year ?
>
> I am a former editor of WRTH. I don't have anything to to with WRTH 
> these
> days, but we used to get the same question every year. The answer is 
> that
> you can only compress the editorial/production process so far. I 
> believe I
> worked hard, averaging 70-80 hours a week from August-December. I once
> worked for 53 consecutive days, including weekends, without a break. 
> In the
> end my health suffered. But still we couldn't produce the thing in the 
> short
> time frame that readers want. Things are worse now because the winter
> schedule starts at the end of October (used to be the end of 
> September).
> Broadcasters all want to hold back their information until the last 
> possible
> moment, and two people cannot physically handle that amount of data in 
> a few
> days. Then when that's all done, you have to pray that the printing and
> production go smoothly. When WRTH was produced in the States, four 
> different
> production plants in four different parts of the US were involved. 
> Then the
> finished books had to be shipped to the warehouse for distribution.
> Sometimes this coincided with major snowfalls. I remember one year 
> when the
> books were in the warehouse but could not be sent out because the 
> trucks
> couldn't get through 10 foot snowdrifts!
>
> That said, the B-03 schedule lasts till the end of March 2004, not 
> january,
> so you are exaggerating the problem. I'm quite sure the current 
> publisher is
> doing his utmost to get the book out as fast as possible: time is 
> money in
> publishing, as in everything else.
>
> Andy Sennitt.
>
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