Ready for AP satellite shut down?

We've converted. And it sucks. Some of the folders don't even have anything in them. They don't purge, so we have to remember to clear them out manually or else the old, old, old computer the files are stored on bogs down, which bogs down all our computers. And we don't get things on a consistent basis. Some days, we'll get all sorts of agate and graphics. Then the next day, we get nothing.

We've been using AP Exchange much, much more than the web feed.

 

No. You get everything that is on Exchange, but the content feeds right into an existing editorial system.

 

We converted over the summer. And we too get a lot more stuff (the expanded and wide boxes, prep scores and stories from other states). and a few things (like AP Top 25 poll) end up in a different folder than the rest of the agate.

Our tech guys haven't got the coding down yet on football boxes, so we have to adjust the score by quarters, team stats and paragraph the individual stats. They were working on it over the weekend, so hopefully that's fixed.

The one advantage the new system gives us is that when it goes down, it automatically goes back to move all the missed wired copy. Whereas if the satellite went down, we had to call AP for resends on stories (Always a pain if you aren't completely sure what had and hadn't moved).

 

AP has the worst customer service support this side of the DMV.

 

Yes, unless absolutely necessary

 

So, how is sports doing without AP for game reports, notes, agate?

Are they just rewriting the stuff and not identifying it?

 

We're in the process of switching over. No problems so far,

 

Thanks. I checked with my ME to make sure sure we were switched over. We had been for a week. But then I looked at our feeds on Exchange vs. the text side, and we were already getting full sports wire on the web, but not on text. I let the techie know.

 

We switched to webfeed and all of a sudden started getting South Dakota volleyball scores. It's like taking a sip from a fire hose. I had to change every one of my searches.

Not only that, but it made our servers go goofy and seize up at least once a day, sometimes twice and once right before deadline.

 

When our webfeed first got going, we were getting high school football scores from Michigan and volleyball polls from North Dakota. I'm in Kansas and there hasn't been any high school stuff from my state on it yet.

 

Since a couple of our locals haven't been calling in road games, been tempted to run those Minnesota volleyball scores ...