• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

1010 WINS X-rated blooper

Don't several feeds (weather reports, traffic reports, syndicated shows, even complete air products, share (multiplex on) the same private over the air channel or coax cable? Stations subscribe to and tune in the particular subchannel they want to put into their own air product, using a special receiver for that purpose. Occasionally they tune in the wrong program to take, or the wrong program was put on the subchannel the station normally takes from for that weather report etc.
 
These days it's all done over the Internet. Even when stations did have physical connections to bring in the weather and traffic reports, as far back as the '90s they were done over ISDN, not analog telco lines, so there was no possibility for "interference" -- instead of a mix of two feeds, it would just drop the connection.

Are the WINS anchors still mostly working from home? If so, then the fact that she cut her own mic while trying to fix the problem indicates to me that the errant audio came from her end of things. Watching/listening to non-work-related media on the same computer you use for your on-air work is never a good idea. We all know that media player apps love to magically un-pause and un-mute themselves at the worst possible times.
 
For the longest while now -- longer than some posting here have been alive -- 1010 WINS has played nothing over the air but voice material. All-news stations have no choice.
I forget the circumstances; it was back in the late 60's, when WINS was off the air entirely for some reason around 1PM. No carrier, no teletype splash, no voice. Off a pretty decent radio back near Kennedy Airport in came a faint WSID* Baltimore instead. It was the only time in my DXing life I ever caught them.
Lori Madden's tenure goes back to the era when not nearly as much info and audio came into the studio the way it does today. Certainly, the stuff was more manageable before touch screens and other blinking devices. When your station has no music to play, the instant immediacy must be, well, maddening at times. Having to babysit an FM simulcast of all the commotion can't be a piece of cake either.
Madden seems to've handled it well. Get the call right and explain things later if need be. And in a way, WINS *did* its part well, giving us a part of the world in that 22 minutes, even if was involuntary.

* For NJ listeners to 1010: The tiny, omni WSID Baltimore is and has been the reason that 1010 WINS has had to limit its signal in that direction.
 
If I were a betting man, I'd say a naughty/bored board op was watching something they shouldn't at work. And the business PC was potted up on the board. (Do WINS anchors run their own boards?)

Didn't get this bad, but we had a board op absolutely BLAST the Chili Pepper's "Love Rollercoaster" during the middle of a talk segment. He thought it was on cue, so he wasn't surprised to have it jamming loud in his headphones. And the host was so shocked, he just smiled and laughed, wondering if it was a bit. I went flying into air mix to let him know.
 
I think this was the work of a hacker. Remember the fake zombie apocalypse EAS alerts that aired on certain TV stations 10 or 20 years ago? I'd put this in the same category, except the content this time was very filthy.
 
MarkW said:
I think this was the work of a hacker. Remember the fake zombie apocalypse EAS alerts that aired on certain TV stations 10 or 20 years ago? I'd put this in the same category, except the content this time was very filthy.
Click to expand...
Nah...I think kevtronics has the right answer. She probably had some sound effects, music, or other content on her computer and something inadvertently fired. Honest mistake due to some sloppy housekeeping.
 
I relayed a story on another thread here that mentioned my Dad and his work. It was after some 25 years that his company allowed employees to have on a radio station at work*.
With all the current clamor about TSL and well-tested songs and commercial loads, it strikes me as odd it's been witnessing society in general having to acquire so many different means of escape and distraction from the job they're purportedly tasked to be doing. More and more people -- of all demos -- are carrying around their three-eyed Samsung and swooping it for info -- or whatever -- as if leaving it at home or turning it off might possibly cause them to be permanently erased from society.
So I find it hard to believe that Lori Madden will need more sources of information than she can handle while already AT WORK doing her job dispensing everything WINS has to report to the NY Metro. Having a soap opera go off over the air does not sound like the fault or behavior of a news anchor.

* Lol -- The one station that my Dad had on his work radio in the lab was WDVR, Beautiful Music, in Philly. He'd affixed a band of tape where it was on the dial. Serendipditously enough, it was the same place, the same 101.1 dial spot from Philly, same signal, where he would hear his own son some 17 years later on the air playing music.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
* For NJ listeners to 1010: The tiny, omni WSID Baltimore is and has been the reason that 1010 WINS has had to limit its signal in that direction.
Click to expand...

1010 in Baltimore is WOLB but you're right it's tiny. 250 Watts daytime 30 Night. Goodness knows how they're getting out at that power. I can't even reliably get one AM station here in Vegas with 600 watts at night. Well within it's coverage area
 
luperm said:
Nah...I think kevtronics has the right answer. She probably had some sound effects, music, or other content on her computer and something inadvertently fired. Honest mistake due to some sloppy housekeeping.
Click to expand...
Why would porn video audio be preloaded?

That's what went out over the air instead of the AccuWeather live read.

It's unclear if the issue originated at WINS or at AccuWeather.

I still think a hacker may have caused this.
 
MarkW said:
Why would porn video audio be preloaded?

That's what went out over the air instead of the AccuWeather live read.

It's unclear if the issue originated at WINS or at AccuWeather.

I still think a hacker may have caused this.
Click to expand...
Once again:
IMG_1871.jpeg

It’s already been explained to you & everyone else how it happened. And it’s not porn either. Like @Theater of My Mind said:

It's audio from Workin' Moms on Netflix, Season 2 Episode 7.
 
It's sexually graphic content nonetheless. Maybe the explanation of what caused the issue (in terms of that audio going out over the air) is correct and maybe it's not.
 
Does anyone on this board actually know Lori? Perhaps a text or phone call (with an assurance of "protecting the source") could clear this up in about 60 seconds.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
Spoiler alert: It's audio from Workin' Moms on Netflix, Season 2 Episode 7. and it does have a happy ending! Anchor Lori Madden, however, seems not so happy, attempting to explain it away as "another station" and "interference".
Click to expand...
That was no "interference" that was someone having Netflix audio up on a computer audio output that is part of the air chain (i.e. a input on a console somewhere).
 
The show was produced for and by the CBC, meeting Canadian broadcast content guidelines (the Puritan FCC of course is another matter). It's certainly not a show to air in the daytime, but we are certainly not talking about adult pay-per-view material or 'spicy audios' that went out over the air.

Just a couple nights ago the Brewers' Trevor Magill dropped what was called by Jeff Levering as 'more swear words than the Cubs had hits' in the NLDS over the Brewers radio network and outside those grumps who insist on being seated for every pitch of a game despite bedlam during the game, nobody will care (not even my friend at a station that broadcast the game who laughed when I joked about their job security after that on Facebook). Morning shock jocks have played much worse and got nothing more than management slapping them on the wrist and it seems like a very honest accident quickly addressed off-air and moved on from.
 


Back
Top Bottom