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Dial Global running old Voice Tracks?

MarcB

MarcB

I was listening to WATR 1320 out of Waterbury, Connecticut yesterday afternoon. They run one of Dial Global's Oldies formats (not sure which one. Before Dial Global and Jones got married and Jones ceased to exist they used to carry Jone's Good Time Oldies Network). Anyway the Female DJ on Dial Global yesterday afternoon said it was "The Birth of MTV Weekend." The birth of MTV was August 1, 1981, so either she's off by 2 weeks or they were running an old Voice-track. I heard a couple other stations doing "The Birth of MTV Weekend" specials 2 weeks ago.
 
This is actually not as unusual as it might sound. Some clusters must have almost everything on a centralized server. Because you can occasionally not only hear outdated/repeated voice tracks, but commercials or even IDs/voicers/jingles for OTHER stations in the cluster and it's the only way I can explain it. Kinda stupid doing it that way, considering how close one error is to crazy meltdown if you have more than one station on it.

The technology is one thing, but it all comes back to the person programming it all in.....
 
MarcB said:
I was listening to WATR 1320 out of Waterbury, Connecticut yesterday afternoon. They run one of Dial Global's Oldies formats (not sure which one. Before Dial Global and Jones got married and Jones ceased to exist they used to carry Jone's Good Time Oldies Network). Anyway the Female DJ on Dial Global yesterday afternoon said it was "The Birth of MTV Weekend." The birth of MTV was August 1, 1981, so either she's off by 2 weeks or they were running an old Voice-track. I heard a couple other stations doing "The Birth of MTV Weekend" specials 2 weeks ago.
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Are you sure she didn't say it was the 30th Anniversary of the MTV weekend? Perhaps it was a two week old voice-track (hardly that old), or she figured anytime during August was close enough. I was in NYC less than 2 weeks ago, and WCBS-FM DJ Ron Parker (presumably live on air) was talking about the 30th Anniversary and "CBS-FM" was celebrating by running the songs that were some of the original MTV videos. That was about August 8th.
 
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