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Sahisko

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I consider myself as a radio geek but as far a technical aspect of radio, I am a novice so I figured you guys might know the answer to this since all of you love radio and some of you have a lot of experience in radio...

I went to listen to Art Bell on 1360 WPTT AM (online of course since you can't pick it up at night) and for a while you were hearing commercials on-top of each other but when they went back to the show it went to dead-air except if you can listen closely you could hear the 1320 WJAS stream on the 1360 stream. Anybody know what this may be caused by? They must not have a board op at night at 1360 or if they do he is probably the only one there and maybe he fell asleep. haha. Night board op, now if I could get a job like that I would be in heaven. lol.
 
Most places don't use board ops overnight. They let the computer run things.

Sometimes things go a little haywire. I had 3WS overnight on one night, and the spot breaks were playing Sean McDowell from some summertime DVE remote.
 
And most places use one server for streaming and/or one server for all the stations' voicetracks and automated playlists.

When dealing with computers on their own...
 
Sahisko said:
I consider myself as a radio geek but as far a technical aspect of radio, I am a novice so I figured you guys might know the answer to this since all of you love radio and some of you have a lot of experience in radio...

I went to listen to Art Bell on 1360 WPTT AM (online of course since you can't pick it up at night) and for a while you were hearing commercials on-top of each other but when they went back to the show it went to dead-air except if you can listen closely you could hear the 1320 WJAS stream on the 1360 stream. Anybody know what this may be caused by? They must not have a board op at night at 1360 or if they do he is probably the only one there and maybe he fell asleep. haha. Night board op, now if I could get a job like that I would be in heaven. lol.
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If they're streaming the direct over-the-air feed over the internet, there could be some bleed-through on the STL, if they're shooting it via microwave. When I worked at the old Rebel 104.7 (in 1993), you could hear Y-108 faintly in the background if you allowed a couple of seconds of dead air on 104.7. There's not much you can do about it.
 
They recently upgraded their automation system, and the bugs are far from worked out, so what happens is sometimes, tones aren't recognized properly as opens or closes to breaks, this leads to either two audio feeds being open at the same time, or one closing (or not opening), thus leading to dead air. For thebrecord there is usualy just one person there overnights manning all three stations, and as for the bleed through, not sure what might cause that, you could say it is above my pay grade.
 
The bleed through is from their STLs which have been an issue to varying degress since they moved to their present location. They are a prime source of the multi-path hell that is Greentree Hill.

The rest is the automation sytem. Its too basic for what they are trying to make it do and sometimes when they ask it to do too much its response is to do nothing. Their chief is doing the best he can with what he's been handed.
 
I continuously hear mistakes being made on the air, especially at night and on weekends, that 20-25 years ago would have gotten me fired immediately but because it's a computer making the mistakes that somehow is okay with managment. The standards have sunk to rock-bottom.
 
They were paying you, they already paid for the automation system.

Besides nobody cares about ads on an AM station anymore after sunset unless you are one of the mega market mastadons still left standing. None of them are around here. Everyone else is leaving the transmitter on just so their frequency is on your radio when you wake up in the morning.
 
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