I just heard eight minutes of dead air on Oldies 106.7.... Saturday 8/22 7:47p-7:55p....hmmmm? Maybe live weekend dj...? 
Posted on August 22, 2009 - 07:57 PM
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Maybe a computer crash. That happens when you are using Windozzzzzzzzz.........
Posted on August 22, 2009 - 08:14 PM # -
Those things happen all the time with automated unattended stations. Eight minutes sounds like the time it would take for the silence sense to dial enough numbers to find someone who could do something to get it going again.
Posted on August 23, 2009 - 09:21 AM # -
I made a couple calls myself...just trying to help out and look out!
Posted on August 23, 2009 - 10:59 AM # -
If a tree falls in the forest, but there's no one there to hear it, does it still make a crashing sound? :-0
Posted on August 23, 2009 - 03:30 PM # -
If a man says something and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
Posted on August 23, 2009 - 05:15 PM # -
If a tree falls in the forest, but there's no one there to hear it, does it still make a crashing sound?
Maybe that’s one for Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman to tackle.
Posted on August 23, 2009 - 05:51 PM # -
...um I was listening....that's how I heard it. Just because you're in radio doesn't mean you can't still love the music you were raised on. Crazy coming from a 21 year old, I know....
Posted on August 23, 2009 - 06:22 PM # -
The sad part is situations like this are now considered standard operating procedure and are expected, as well as an acceptable business practice. Billion dollar companies offering a 5 cent product and wondering why revenues and listenership is down....
Psst.... you are too thin in the in house people department. Glad I could help.
Posted on August 24, 2009 - 09:01 AM # -
Having worked in large government and large business situations, with respect to production management, the story is the same -- nothing will change until the organization recognizes the problem. Radio won't change until advertisers, who pay the freight, tell the sales people, "Sorry I won't advertise on a radio station that doesn't care about the programming it is broadcasting!"
Posted on August 24, 2009 - 12:23 PM # -
Years ago, when I was at WITR (Henrietta, NY), we were using a Power Mac both as a replacement for the cart machines and as a crude automation system. When this computer crashed, an alert sound--the quack of a duck--would play. It was the dreaded Dead-Air Duck!!
Posted on August 24, 2009 - 02:32 PM # -
Ha ha ha that's great!
Posted on August 24, 2009 - 05:35 PM #
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