As of 12:15AM 102.9 DRC-FM is still of the air. I don't know when they went off the air as I didn't notice until I set my alarm at Midnite to wake me up at 7AM. I often fall asleep to DRC-FM and when I need my alarm to wake up in the morning. There is some noise coming out on 102.9, but it's not music. I got home at 6:45PM and they were fine.
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DRC-FM Currently Off-the-air
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MarcB said:
Necrat said:
Or, "overnight maintenance"?
n1sfe said:
I know all that. All from experience. When I was brokering my own show on WXCT 990 once my CD started skipping and I threw the station into tens minutes of PSAs and PI Commercials, while I went into the lobby and let my anger calm down.
Another time I was running late for my show so I didn't take any of my CDs off the shelf and I began my show telling a story. When I was done telling my story I pressed F3 (or something like that) on the computer keyboard to start a stop-set so I could get my CDs off the shelf. Unfortunately for me I pressed F3 and nothing happened. I tired several more times without any luck and screamed for the General Manager to come into the studio. I was caught with my pants down so to speak. Not prepared for a problem, which resulted in dead-air. The GM said he had been changing PI Spots and PSAs on the automation computer and apparently messed something up so it wouldn't play anything. He got it working fairly quickly.
And yet another time I got tongue-tied trying to tell a story about my vacation and I threw the station into dead-air for 10 minutes. There was nothing else for me to do. It was the end of my show. I had put away my CDs during the last stop-set and there were no commercials left to play in the automation computer.
The whole tongue tying thing made me realize I could never be a talk show host and anything I wanted to discuss on my show would need to be written down - a script so to speak to follow.
MarcB said:
Oh, come on! Surely your vacation was good for more than one story!
meatslab said:
Not to mention the sweat soaked chair!
He could have just opened up the phones and let his listeners share their vacation stories for 10 minutes. Oh, wait, that's right ... "listeners" ... oops.
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