KTRH, KPRC, and iHeart Oddities

[ThatVoice22]

I was listening to Coast-to-Coast-AM with George Noory on KPRC AM 950 from about 11pm on Wednesday night, then switched over to KTRH AM 740 to hear the 1130pm news which started normally.
Then at 1131, total silence. Tuned back to KPRC, total silence. Back to KTRH, then KPRC, all silence….
Suddenly, several commercials came on KTRH, same exact audio was also on KPRC. This odd simulcast of commercials lasted about 4 minutes.
Then, a public service message came involving Bexar County. Wait-what?
THEN, on came a promotional for WOAI San Antonio (in Bexar County) which happens to be the flagship station of all of iHeart Radio and the corporate center for holding company iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications)
Suddenly at 1137pm, KTRH started airing Coast-to-Coast AM which it shouldn’t be playing at that time. Same audio on KPRC where Coast-to-Coast should be airing prior to midnight.
One minute later, KTRH switched to Our American Stories, the correct program.
KPRC maintained Coast-to-Coast, so all had returned to normal.
That was a brief radio window of weirdness, probably caused by an engineering error at WOAI. Perhaps this mistake occurred on every iHeart station across the country.

 

[ChuckTiller]

I was listening to Coast-to-Coast-AM with George Noory on KPRC AM 950 from about 11pm on Wednesday night, then switched over to KTRH AM 740 to hear the 1130pm news which started normally.
Then at 1131, total silence. Tuned back to KPRC, total silence. Back to KTRH, then KPRC, all silence….
Suddenly, several commercials came on KTRH, same exact audio was also on KPRC. This odd simulcast of commercials lasted about 4 minutes.
Then, a public service message came involving Bexar County. Wait-what?
THEN, on came a promotional for WOAI San Antonio (in Bexar County) which happens to be the flagship station of all of iHeart Radio and the corporate center for holding company iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications)
Suddenly at 1137pm, KTRH started airing Coast-to-Coast AM which it shouldn’t be playing at that time. Same audio on KPRC where Coast-to-Coast should be airing prior to midnight.
One minute later, KTRH switched to Our American Stories, the correct program.
KPRC maintained Coast-to-Coast, so all had returned to normal.
That was a brief radio window of weirdness, probably caused by an engineering error at WOAI. Perhaps this mistake occurred on every iHeart station across the country.

It could have happened locally. I remember listening to KNTH on my way to work around 2:45AM. I heard KNTH and KKHT on KNTH. Somebody had loaded the KKHT playlist on KNTH. It was a mistake that is easily made in the ENCO system. It will allow to load multiple playlists, but it can bite you. That person was checking to see if the right elements were loaded for KKHT, but forgot to unload it when he was through. At midnight, the ENCO played both. What a mess. It bit him.

 

[tb_]

I heard something similarly odd on KQBT midday Sunday while scanning around -- they were running spots and liners on top of music at the same volume level. Think it went on for a good 20-30 minutes, couldn't stand to listen to it the whole time.