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Any NPR stations that still sign off?

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Just curious...

I remember NPR stations were usually the last station in a market to go 24/7 and many were still signing off from 12am-5am into the mid 1990's (Peach State Public Radio and SC Educational Radio come to mind)

Then Classical 24 and the BBC World Service came along and it seems everybody went 24/7 pretty quick.

Are there still any NPR affiliates who sign off at night? I'd imagine not since NPR is distributed via the bird and it would be quite easy to pull the World Service or a classical format via the same means

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We did until 2007. The pd and I (engineering) asked to take it 24/7. We run BBC at night. Our rating have went up in morning drive and overall. Several people have called and thanked us. Also, our transmitters gave less failures due to just running them since there isn't the constant heat and cooling thing going on regularly now.
 
Personally I'd rather discover a problem at night and casually fix it than have a big ugly supprise early at 5 am when the broken thing finally is discovered. It gives me enough time to react to the prob before drive time when no one can be happy the station is dead in the water.
 
OKCRadioGuy said:
Personally I'd rather discover a problem at night and casually fix it than have a big ugly supprise early at 5 am
Click to expand...
Besides, lightbulbs always pop when you turn them on.
Therefore, leave equipment on and it should last forever.
Honestly though, I was told many years ago to keep my hard drive running always.
I have, and with all the software issues I have confronted, I believe it is afraid to crash.
 
ai4i said:
OKCRadioGuy said:
Personally I'd rather discover a problem at night and casually fix it than have a big ugly supprise early at 5 am
Click to expand...
Besides, lightbulbs always pop when you turn them on.
Therefore, leave equipment on and it should last forever.
Honestly though, I was told many years ago to keep my hard drive running always.
I have, and with all the software issues I have confronted, I believe it is afraid to crash.
Click to expand...

KWSU 1250 AM Pullman, WA still signs off at night. They do have a 24/7 FM translator locally though, so I'm not sure if that counts......
 
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