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Brief Dead Air During 'If U "See" Amy' On 92.3 Now

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

At around 5:55 PM, right into the first minute of the Britney Spears song "If U See Amy" (radio edit of "If U Seek Amy" - if you "spell" out the title, you'll know why) there was a good twenty seconds or so of dead carrier! For this to be happening during this controversial track, of all songs, was really interesting! (Maybe they were checking to see if the "dump button" leftover from the old morning show was still active? :D )

Anyone else hear this?

An odd moment during the very first hour of Now's young existence, that's for sure!
 
So the transmitter really did shut off during the song. I bet they played the wrong version at first, someone panicked and reached for the transmitter switch. Or it could have been a power surge, but the other NYC stations were still on.
 
Never heard that song after the flip, but that clip was kinda weird where they go from this song to static. I guess maybe WSPK's K104 in the HV listening area plays "If U Seek Amy" which is the radio edited version just to clear out the profanity that Z-100 refused to play that song. I heard that on "Board Reflections" a while back where Allan Sniffen discussed about the song "If U Seek Amy", the real version.
 
after 20 years of rock on 92.3 maybe the sound processors were not ready to hear hip hop with the big boom box beat lol..
 
At first I thought it was a problem with my radio. Good to see that someone else noticed the "dead air"
 
Dead air is the carrier wave on with no modulation (silence)
Off the air is when you hear static or another station on 92.3. It sounded like it was off the air because I could hear 92.5 XTU bleeding on to 92.35 and static on 92.30.
 
I have an HD radio in my car, and the station was fading in and out all day (both before and after the flip). Normally that only happens with HD2/3 channels, while the main channels just revert to an SD signal. Is this related to what's being discussed here?
 
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