Funny technical problems on 104.1 this morning

[Stanislav]

Tuned in to the "Best of Real Radio" on 104.1 this morning around 5 only to be assaulted with a cacophony of sound. They had two separate audio streams running simultaneously. Now, I've heard this happen before on other stations (most notably 1080 AM, which sometimes gets two satellite feeds up at the same time, and they don't realize it for hours), but the interesting thing about the glitch on 104.1 is that the two audio streams were the same program running about 7 seconds apart. That leads me to believe that someone had the delay on (which wouldn't have been needed for taped shows) and that somehow they had both the pre-delay and post-delay streams up at the same time!

At any rate, they were playing a taped excerpt from The Shannon Burke Show, and it was hysterical because it sounded like Shannon, Kevin, and the rest had somehow been cloned, and were all trying to talk at the same time, ignoring the others. (Although, come to think of it, the show usually sounds a lot like that anyway...) ;D

 

[Stanislav]

They acknowledged the problems on the Monsters (which started late at about 6:09 as they sorted out the trouble). According to Tuddle (consider the source, though), it had something to do with them doing some transmitter work overnight, using what he called an "emergency feed," then forgot to switch off said feed when they were finished. Perhaps what he meant is that they were originating the pre-taped "Best of" at the transmitter site instead of the studio (which they would do if the STL went down) during the work, then switched to the same tape from the studio (which was not in sync) without killing the "emergency" feed. Does any of this sound like a plausible explanation?

 

[MusicMan11]

plausible or not, it was probably more interesting than anything else on the radio at that time of the morning.....

 

[DJ Mo]

Yep. I noticed it driving to work at 3:30am when I stopped to listen to Beatles "We Can Work It Out" overlapping each other. It was a train wreck.

I guess it went on for a few hours until someone was actually inside the studio. I hate the fact that there's not a soul inside most radio stations 24/7 so the simple problem could be corrected immediately. They probably need to do a lot of make-goods for the commercials that ran overnight.

And yes, I flipped on a CD after the double Beatles song since I lost more respect for FM radio.

 

[FrankF]

Yep. I noticed it driving to work at 3:30am when I stopped to listen to Beatles "We Can Work It Out" overlapping each other. It was a train wreck.

WTKS plays the Beatles? I thought they were alternative.

 

[DIZ Guy]

Technical problems can be pretty funny. A couple years back, I heard a disaster at a classic rock station in another state. The jock was voice tracked, but the music was not playing, so all that you heard was the guy talking and spots and liners....pretty funny...

And this went on ALL NIGHT!!!!!

 

[larnov]

There was a time I think it was a Miami or Tampa station was playing the Yankees feed from WCBS and when the game ended it stayed a WCBS New york till 6 am the next morning..

 

[Stanislav]

Once back in the 70's, NBC canceled a show on short notice, and filled the time slot with a movie. The movie ran 10 minutes short, and for the balance of the hour, the entire network was carrying local WNBC-TV PSAs and promos.

 

[MarcB]

Technical problems can be pretty funny. A couple years back, I heard a disaster at a classic rock station in another state. The jock was voice tracked, but the music was not playing, so all that you heard was the guy talking and spots and liners....pretty funny...

And this went on ALL NIGHT!!!!!

Similar thing happened at KC-101.3 the CC owned CHR station in New Haven, CT a month or so ago. They were playing nothing but spots and liners all night long. I would imagine this screwed up their webstream as they usually cover up the local commercials on their webstream.

 

[MarcB]

There was a time I think it was a Miami or Tampa station was playing the Yankees feed from WCBS and when the game ended it stayed a WCBS New york till 6 am the next morning..

Yeah. My guess is the board op went home. A station I used to intern at used to run the Sunday Night NFL Game of the week from Westwood One. The board op (most of the time it was the GM/PD it was a small-time operation) would leave at Midnight. And when the game was over you'd hear "CBS Channel 42 Beep" continously until the station manager would come back for his morning show at 7AM. Then again not too many people would notice as they're only 80 watts at night. But the power up is done automatically so it would go back up to 2500 watts so a few more people would hear that.

 

[Froggy]

Technical problems can be pretty funny. A couple years back, I heard a disaster at a classic rock station in another state. The jock was voice tracked, but the music was not playing, so all that you heard was the guy talking and spots and liners....pretty funny...

And this went on ALL NIGHT!!!!!

Similar thing happened at KC-101.3 the CC owned CHR station in New Haven, CT a month or so ago. They were playing nothing but spots and liners all night long. I would imagine this screwed up their webstream as they usually cover up the local commercials on their webstream.

We've had that happen in SIMIAN when the Satellite refuses to kick in.The only items on the Local COMPUTER are 2-4 Hours of Commercials that are supposed to play during a COUNTDOWN SHOW-If the Show is a no show-guess what???Commercial marathon!

 

[DJ Mo]

Actually, they're pretty diverse in their music selection. They played Faithless "Insomnia" & Portishead before. I love it. They're like WPRK 91.5, a station I myself appear on from time to time. No format rules.

Yep. I noticed it driving to work at 3:30am when I stopped to listen to Beatles "We Can Work It Out" overlapping each other. It was a train wreck.

WTKS plays the Beatles? I thought they were alternative.