I worked at a station that at the time operated at the transmitter site during overnight hours. The station had just picked up Talknet but couldn't run the program in the overnight hours. The satellite receiver (Scientific Atlanta DATS) was downtown and there was only one. The operator downtown would switch transponder on the receiver during the last Talknet break as to air ABC News. There was a STL hop to send the satellite audio to the transmitter site but the ability switch transponders didn't exist.
An engineer searching the SCPC receiver at the transmitter site found WHO Des Moines. It turns out it was a continuous feed and the station aired Talknet. The commercials were the same so a solution was found. Talknet was added to overnights with ABC news at the top of the hour.
Everything ran wonderful until spring arrived and the first wave of severe weather affecting Iowa. As a host was giving some kind of advice an EBS tone appeared. The operator removed it off the air as soon as possible but it didn't end there. He had to ride the fader the rest of the night for more tones and weather updates. The next day it was decided to purchase a second receiver and send it down an available STL. Problem solved.
An engineer searching the SCPC receiver at the transmitter site found WHO Des Moines. It turns out it was a continuous feed and the station aired Talknet. The commercials were the same so a solution was found. Talknet was added to overnights with ABC news at the top of the hour.
Everything ran wonderful until spring arrived and the first wave of severe weather affecting Iowa. As a host was giving some kind of advice an EBS tone appeared. The operator removed it off the air as soon as possible but it didn't end there. He had to ride the fader the rest of the night for more tones and weather updates. The next day it was decided to purchase a second receiver and send it down an available STL. Problem solved.