Is anyone minding store at 1360

[Logic Al]

So over the weekend I was listening to 1360 because I wanted to hear basketball games as I was driving around town. Lo an behold station was off the air. Called WLW on air number and an actual friendly voice said thanks, he would fix it and he did. Then Tuesday night at 6:45 came a blurb, "The following is a special presentation ... " followed by dead air. After running some errands and checking back around 7:45 p.m. still dead air. Called WLW number again and was put on hold without talking to someone. Stayed on hold for about 10 minutes and hung up. Checked back around 8:30 and listended to NIT for a little as I finished up errands until a commercial fired, then another commercial fired on top of it and game was lost to garble, then dead air. Called WLW again, was put on hold again for 10 minutes and finally gave up. Nice of CC to give a damn.

 

[DJJack1]

Yeah when I used to listen to 1530 for Bob Costas, I had the same problems. The trick is do what it sounds like you did. Call the studio line at 700 and let them know.

You shouldn't *have* to do that, mind you, but....

I haven't even posted about what I heard the day the Daytona 500 was in a rain delay. I love catching raw network feeds advising stations of when they'd be back on. Repeatedly. My wife and I had a good laugh out of that, but I didn't have my phone with me to call the station.

 

[jry]

There is this great invention called a Silence Alarm.
200 bucks or so.
Of course, you have to program a phone number or two, so it can make the call.

 

[DJJack1]

Heck, my first job was part time at a country station with an oldies AM. Silence alarm went off in the FM studio; you went in and fixed it. This was twenty years ago in a small market along the Ohio River. If we could do it then....

 

[techie2]

There is this great invention called a Silence Alarm.
200 bucks or so.
Of course, you have to program a phone number or two, so it can make the call.

You also have to actually have enough employees left that there is someone for it to call

 

[Thomas Blixa]

Most station engineers have a pager that will sound an alarm if there is more than one minute of dead air. I have come across this problem on occasion and I usually will get a call from our engineer saying "You have dead air' on such station!

 

[del_griffith]

I haven't even posted about what I heard the day the Daytona 500 was in a rain delay. I love catching raw network feeds advising stations of when they'd be back on. Repeatedly. My wife and I had a good laugh out of that, but I didn't have my phone with me to call the station.

I was in Savannah the weekend of Thanksgiving listening to 630 am. They must have been expecting a sports feed, because the network line was open with a countdown to air going on. Nothing else was airing. Funny part was as the countdown was going on, there was an ongoing announcement that this portion of the feed was not for over the air broadcast. Must have went on for 10 mins. We finally lost the signal before the game started airing.

 

[jry]

I can remember listening to Rush on a small, northern Michigan, station.

They went to break and Rush was voicing promos durning the stop set. The problem? It was airing on the station.

Rush was muffing them and swearing. Funny stuff. I knew the guy that was doing all of the affiliate relations and told

him about it. Had a good laugh together.

 

[borderblaster]

Problem is if you have "CBS Radio Network Channel 06 BEEEP!" going out for a few hours, there's still audio so no one gets an automated phone call

 

[xmusicmatt]

Problem is if you have "CBS Radio Network Channel 06 BEEEP!" going out for a few hours, there's still audio so no one gets an automated phone call

Yeah ... Kinda like the local progressive talker AM up here in Columbus who couldn't seem to get their Dial Global receiver authorized properly and would air hours and hours and hours of "This is Dial Global Radio Networks AMC-8 Transponder 13, to authorize your receiver contact dial global network operations...."

 

[BobOnTheJob]

1360 with more than 3 seconds of dead air...that would have cost someone their job...if it were still 1969.

 

[nicomp]

1360 with more than 3 seconds of dead air...that would have cost someone their job...if it were still 1969.

Casey Piotrowski would never allow that to happen.

 

[BobOnTheJob]

1360 with more than 3 seconds of dead air...that would have cost someone their job...if it were still 1969.

Casey Piotrowski would never allow that to happen.

Nor would Roy Cooper...heads would have rolled.

 

[nicomp]

1360 with more than 3 seconds of dead air...that would have cost someone their job...if it were still 1969.

Casey Piotrowski would never allow that to happen.

Nor would Roy Cooper...heads would have rolled.

Buddy Baron would be livid.

 

[BobOnTheJob]

1360 with more than 3 seconds of dead air...that would have cost someone their job...if it were still 1969.

Casey Piotrowski would never allow that to happen.

Nor would Roy Cooper...heads would have rolled.

Buddy Baron would be livid.

Good Old Jim Scott would have crossed the street to WLW.

 

[microbob]

And Jim Scott would have thrown his Grippos bag across the studio.

 

[BobOnTheJob]

And Larry Clark would have caught it with 1 hand while cuing up Sugar Sugar with the other.

 

[hipporadio]

And Larry Clark would have caught it with 1 hand while cuing up Sugar Sugar with the other.

...'And before moving to 1410 WING, Steve Kirk would have screamed:
"ah-chi-chi-chi-chaaaa!!!"
...In 1965 8)

 

[TANKSBACK]

And Jim McKnight would have locked him in the production studio and made him play "Tighten Up" for 3 hours before letting him try being on the air again!

 

[hipporadio]

And Jim McKnight would have locked him in the production studio and made him play "Tighten Up" for 3 hours before letting him try being on the air again!

We need a "Like" button here at R-I... That's a great analogy, TANKS! 'Jogged my memory of Archie Bell and The Drells and wearing braces on my teeth in Spring 1968. Now, I'm going to grab their Greatest Hits CD on Rhino, and enjoy it again. ;D