I talked over what to do about this with a long-time friend who is the cofounder of a real estate firm that provides office space for high-tech companies. Together we came up with a plan. He had access to his company's Meridian telephone switch, which gives him the ability to program the calling party number, as described in the previous story. Whenever I needed to reach the program director and couldn't get a call through, I would ask my friend to program any number of my choosing to appear on the caller ID. Sometimes I'd have him make the call look as if it was coming from David's office assistant, or sometimes from the holding company that owns the station.