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98 Rock "whoops"

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xmusicmatt

From:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-98-rock-knocked-off-the-air-mickey-idiot-host-20120504,0,5901565.story

"If you have ever spilled a cup of coffee onto your computer keyboard, you need to listen to this recording of 98 Rock's morning team as it reacts to Mickey Cucchiella after he knocked a cup of coffee onto the console in the station's studio Friday morning. The station was off the air for 20 minutes, according to the show hosts."


Can we say whoops?

[What I don't understand -- 20 mins off air? even when I worked in small market at a clear channel cluster I could switch automation direct in like 2 seconds bypassing the control room]
 
I know - there's three different subchannels on the frequency, including WBAL. Perhaps he didn't have authorization to pipe into these feeds?

And by the way... Is there any audio at all of this mishap?
 
DToTheJ said:
I know - there's three different subchannels on the frequency, including WBAL. Perhaps he didn't have authorization to pipe into these feeds?

And by the way... Is there any audio at all of this mishap?
Click to expand...

Perhaps the only way to switch between feeds was in the same room as the air studio. And if the board is smoking, well, keeping the carrier on the air is not the main concern. The engineer was probably trying to salvage the board because those things are expensive to replace.

It obviously wasn't a stunt because no major market station would go off the air for 20 minutes in morning drive intentionally.
 
The Starbucks Syndrome

(Refers to Sat Night Live sketch The Pepsi Syndrome, itself a spoof of the China Syndrome;
when Pepsi is spilled into a control board at a nuke plant, the result is that due to radiation,
Jimmy Carter (Dan Aykroyd) and a janitor (Garrett Morris in drag) become giants)
 
Longtime Boston morning host Charles Laquidara has the told the story of a time back in the 70s
when some girl brought in a snowball wrapped in a green ribbon as a bit of a gift for him. They must have placed it on or near the board; a short time later, the board shorted out. When they went to try to fix it they found a little green ribbon...hoo boy...
 
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