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Live radio or VT after 7pm thoughts

frankberry said:
... and it's easier on the transmitter if it stays on 24/7. Most failures occur at transmitter power-up.
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Yup.. i ran an AM Daytimer in 2006/7/8 that required manual off/on, and the transmitter was old... i had problems more then once at sign on.

By signing off an FM at 730.. you might save a couple hundred bucks a month in electricity, if that.. and in the grand scheme of a stations budget, thats nothing.... and if that little makes a difference, youre in more trouble then you realize
 
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Decades ago, when stations were required to turn the carrier off and on a couple of times for Civil Defense (EBS) tests, I had a 50kW AM transmitter that suffered a major high voltage power supply failure which was caused the the carrier off-on-off-on. I modified the transmitter so we could kill the RF drive to the power amplifiers and save the power supply from the surges.
 
frankberry said:
... and it's easier on the transmitter if it stays on 24/7. Most failures occur at transmitter power-up.
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I can remember a few of these mornings. You've got a town waiting for the news and farm report, you hit the plates, the relay goes "thunk" and nothing happens
 
b-turner said:
As for signing off at 7:30, unless you get a waiver from the FCC you must be on the air a minimum of 2/3rds of the hours 6am to 6pm na 2/3rds the hours from 6pm to Midnight except Sundays.
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I think the intent of that rule is to have the frequency available for EAS use. If some emergency happens, EAS will trigger automatically and pre-empt programming. So even federal emergency services are automated. You don't need a live body to handle it.
 
TheBigA said:
As long as the person doing that shift is also selling spots.
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When Jim Morgan, once the #1 morning host on Myrtle Beach, got fired for the second time as his second station met the same fate as the first--going from easy listening to AC--he said on his Facebook page that he had been hired by the oldies station, a very specialized station playing a particular style of music very popular on the S.C. coast, he was told he had to sell his own advertising, but he got the morning shift and as far as I know is still there.
 
Not a good way to sell a station where the jock has to sell their shift. Clients buy stations, nor shifts, and having several people involved with placing advertising on a station is a deal breaker. Not to mention the poor 6 to Midnight jock that can't sell hardly a commercial.
 
b-turner said:
Not a good way to sell a station where the jock has to sell their shift. Clients buy stations, nor shifts, and having several people involved with placing advertising on a station is a deal breaker. Not to mention the poor 6 to Midnight jock that can't sell hardly a commercial.
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I think in this case he was just proving his advertisers would support him. I can't find the Facebook post now. I managed to find the one where he said he was fired because I saved it.
 
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