Can’t Stand The Heat

It happens to every radio announcer. They get stuck in a studio or control room with an uncooperative thermostat and have to spend an entire show freezing or frying.

I vividly remember a much younger and less mature me attempting to cope with the oppressive heat in the CKSL on-air studio. I wrote long, passionate diatribes to the engineers, as if I was the only person to ever have to endure such a tragedy! I have to laugh when I think about my “threat” to start wearing a bikini to work. I wonder now if that’s what actually prevented the pocket-protector crowd from moving very quickly to repair the problem.

We’re experiencing a similar situation in our control room now. We turn the thermostat to fridge and it gives us oven. We set it at igloo and it keeps the room at a steady incubator. It’s very humid and sticky and I’m grateful that I can at least put my hair up in a ponytail. The guys just have to sweat it out.

The only respite we get is on our occasional dashes to pee. The newsroom temperature is very comfortable. We don’t understand it. This is a state of the art set-up with separate thermostats for everyone. It was designed specifically to overcome this very problem.

These days, we don’t dress for the weather outside but the temperature inside. It doesn’t matter that it’s been 22 and cloudy for a couple of days. In our world, it’s in the 30′s with a humidex factor of about 10 more degrees. Every once in a while one of us remarks on how uncomfortable it is, but mostly we just get on with it. So far, Paul hasn’t threatened anyone with a Speedo so we’re hoping the problem gets fixed soon.