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What's the deal with 1460 playing the network's music feed instead of commercials during Dan Patrick and Jim Rome's shows? Someone asleep at the board? No sales? It occurs quite often and sounds amateur.
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it's not the boys and girls at Premiere who are sleeping. General practice during Rome is that they run music during local breaks. If you're hearing music, it's because no local spots were scheduled, or the automation system has messed up/missed a tone.
I think that's what was meant by sleeping. They didn't send the tone.sprtschick said:
While it is certainly possible they did not send the tone, that would mean every Rome affiliate in the country would have missed that break. 98% of the time it is the local system that has the problem. Usually traffic misses filling in the break with spots, right sportschick? The tone/relay contact is received but the automation immediately switches back to the satellite, therefore playing the music.
You're right vetguy. That's exactly what I was saying. The break may not have had spots in it...or the spots were not available for the automation to play.
Oh, "vetguy" and "sprtschick", how I wish your wisdom were able to be collected into a single volume.
I'm privileged enough to work at 1460, where I'm easily able diagnose broadcast anomalies such as these by visually examining our program logs and listening to our archived audio logger. I'm also able to assure you that the Dan Patrick and Jim Rome shows are not manually run by a board operator.
On the day in question, our automation system was well-behaved enough to run our several preceding hours of Fox Sports Radio without incident. As there is no difference in the construction of WTKT's broadcast clocks from day to day, there was no reason to believe that a computer setting would suddenly fall out of whack, preventing us from airing local spots and generating revenue.
Moreover, our local breaks are automatically filled with PSA's if they are not sold, or only partially filled. This is done at broadcast time, and worked like a champ throughout WTKT's many-hours-long presentation of Fox Sports Radio. On the day we are discussing, there were many spots missed, enough to raise an eyebrow or two. Turns out radio folk don't like it when commercials go unaired.
But the automation system has plausible deniability, friends. See, unless it's told to press play, it sits there and does nothing but keep the satellite channel open. Since we heard network music, and not a wonderfully-moving series of PSA's, it can be easily concluded that no relay was sent to thrust our beautifully-produced local content upon the tympanic membranes of our loyal audience.
Ergo sum, Premiere messed up.
But even if that explanation didn't pass muster, I e-mailed the guy in charge of engineering at Premiere Radio Networks and asked if there were problems, and he said (and I quote his full text), "yes, there were."
Goodnight now!
I'm privileged enough to work at 1460, where I'm easily able diagnose broadcast anomalies such as these by visually examining our program logs and listening to our archived audio logger. I'm also able to assure you that the Dan Patrick and Jim Rome shows are not manually run by a board operator.
On the day in question, our automation system was well-behaved enough to run our several preceding hours of Fox Sports Radio without incident. As there is no difference in the construction of WTKT's broadcast clocks from day to day, there was no reason to believe that a computer setting would suddenly fall out of whack, preventing us from airing local spots and generating revenue.
Moreover, our local breaks are automatically filled with PSA's if they are not sold, or only partially filled. This is done at broadcast time, and worked like a champ throughout WTKT's many-hours-long presentation of Fox Sports Radio. On the day we are discussing, there were many spots missed, enough to raise an eyebrow or two. Turns out radio folk don't like it when commercials go unaired.
But the automation system has plausible deniability, friends. See, unless it's told to press play, it sits there and does nothing but keep the satellite channel open. Since we heard network music, and not a wonderfully-moving series of PSA's, it can be easily concluded that no relay was sent to thrust our beautifully-produced local content upon the tympanic membranes of our loyal audience.
Ergo sum, Premiere messed up.
But even if that explanation didn't pass muster, I e-mailed the guy in charge of engineering at Premiere Radio Networks and asked if there were problems, and he said (and I quote his full text), "yes, there were."
Goodnight now!
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I've heard that the actual location of magnetic north is changing. Perhaps that is the issue?
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