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Power 105 and Lite 106.7 dead air
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WOR is running Mark Simone podcasts back to back right now, since at least 10:00 AM. Their stream is dead air.
Likewise Q104‘s stream is silent.
10:24 update: WOR is now running a dated Len & Michael interview with Bill Bradley. But at least they ran a station ID beforehand!
11:00 update on WOR: They’re getting some commercials & promos in, between the stale Len & Michael interviews on 710. The WOR stream is back.
And now as of 11:07, Mark Simone is starting his show.
Likewise Q104‘s stream is silent.
10:24 update: WOR is now running a dated Len & Michael interview with Bill Bradley. But at least they ran a station ID beforehand!
11:00 update on WOR: They’re getting some commercials & promos in, between the stale Len & Michael interviews on 710. The WOR stream is back.
And now as of 11:07, Mark Simone is starting his show.
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This is what’s Great 😊 about this Board. Up to the second info & a Wide Variety of Subjects to talk about. Beats Reading something stale from May 29th
From what I have heard from an engineer friend, the entire cluster was down for approx 2 hours. I can only imagine the money lost. And what was interesting, is that while monitoring it from my SDR, 106.7 seemed to have their main TX and backup on at the same time for a brief moment while still dead air. And then their back up was on for a little while, and had about the same signal quality as WBAI (so I assume their backup is from there).
Talk about a major oopsie though. It's one thing for a small town station to go down, but the biggest stations in the biggest market? Wild stuff!
Talk about a major oopsie though. It's one thing for a small town station to go down, but the biggest stations in the biggest market? Wild stuff!
Id guarentee you they have business interruption insurance.
If they don't in a market like this, theyre penny wise and pound foolish
It would be interesting to find out if this a software, power issue at the studios in one non redundant equation rack or possibly an internet attack. IIRC Live Nation had cyber attack last week.
They do make-goods (a "make good" is a replacement spot for one not run). They likely will lose no revenue at all unless some spots were on the last day of an order... unlikely for a Tuesday.
There are a couple of steps in every station's operation that can break the ability to stay on the air. Most stations in larger markets have some degree of redundancy, but stuff happens.
Last week my own website was down for over 2 hours. The server site I use of theirs in Dallas has dual UPS supplies and dual generators. Power went out and a succession of one in a million issues combined to make nothing work. And that is with engineers on site 24/7 to handle several thousand servers.
That usually is written to cover things like a fire in the building, an earthquake, a hurricane, etc. Not short tech failures. And they can easily run make-goods.
I've never been at a station, from Lake City, FL, to NYC, that had insurance that covered an off air period of a couple of hours.
Accounting has no interest in off-air episodes. That is the concern of the manager, the sales manager, traffic and programming.
(At the majority of stations today, the "HD Signal" is generated in a unit that is part of the analog (FM) transmitter. Go to the sites of manufacturers like Nautel to see how they are sold. GV2 Series - Nautel Broadcast)
And now at 3:25pm, instead of Sean Hannity, WOR is running old Len and Michael interviews.
What a disaster for this heritage station.
And no news at 4:00pm. Just another evergreen Mark Simone interview.
IHeart’s disaster recovery plan needs some work.
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Makes having an alternate digital link or, OMG, even an analog audio link to the transmitters.
Some of us used to have a device at the transmitter that would be activated by a significant loss of audio from the STL. In our digital world, several hours of programming can be kept on a digital drive and that can be kept current with a little routine that updates it regularly.
I have not seen one listed in my current broadcast supply catalogs, but someone should make a unit that interfaces with the major program control / automation software to capture selected content and load it on an audio sensor and fill device at the transmitter and, if there is one, the aux site.
If I were doing this for a music station, I'd have software that read MusicMaster or Selector and grabbed the week's most played songs and assembled them in a loop with liners that said "a non-stop interruption free surprise music sweep from Z-97". All that could be done with nothing but an occasional check that it was working and available.
First of all, this only affected a small number of stations. The other AM/FM stations were unaffected.
Had there been an emergency, the iHeart transmitters were still up, so an EAS message would have still been sent.
As of 6:00 PM all iHeart FM stations appeared to be at reduced power or on backup facilities with no HD. WOR seemed OK. Programming was a mess with all kinds of malfunctions. I feel bad for whoever is dealing with this.
In the NYC northern suburbs, I was getting periodic reception of WVCW/Wilmington, DE instead of WBAI. Interesting day.
In the NYC northern suburbs, I was getting periodic reception of WVCW/Wilmington, DE instead of WBAI. Interesting day.
it affect the elvis duran show this morning too
Correct
Is there a single piece of cable or a data network that is common to iHeart's NYC operations? If so maybe a little bit of redundancy needs to be engineered into all the stations.
You can make good commercials but how do you recover from the lost PPM credits that could affect your ratings next release. Will Nielsen show you were lower due to technical issues?
You can make good commercials but how do you recover from the lost PPM credits that could affect your ratings next release. Will Nielsen show you were lower due to technical issues?
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