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Now It's KJR With The Dead Air
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I believe the CCR-Seattle stations are moving this weekend. It could be just a switchover that failed or some-such
Dusty Dale Brooks said:
To quote game show hosts past and present: "You're Right!"; last week I was listening to KJR 950 somewhat often and they mentioned that KJR AM at least is moving from their current address to another address on Elliott Avenue, I'm not sure if all the CC stations are moving addresses, but I know KJR AM is from what I heard.
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Bongwater said:
(Another) bad guess.
They moved two weeks ago.
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I told you if you let the Intern load the audio there is going to be problems... Besides it's always the Interns fault that is what they are there for, well and to fetch coffee and donuts....
Having worked at Clear Channel stations in Salt Lake City, I can give you a definitive answer. Music is plugged into their Prophet system and each hour is supposed to be overlogged by about 3-6 minutes. If they don't program sufficient music into an hour, the system will not start the next hour early. If you are in the middle of a song at the top of the hour, and say another is placed to go next. Once the song that is playing at the top of the hour concludes, the computer bumps the log into the new hour, and starts with the first song. If, as I said, they only programmed 11 songs in an hour and had 11 commercials, this would be only 55 minutes of total music and ads, and the system would just wait until the top of the hour with dead silence until then. A funny aside, when I did my weekend shifts, I still wanted to sound somewhat live. I would never give the exact time, but after the first song at TOH, I would say, 'Welcome to the eight o clock hour on K---.' I remember one time when daylight saving time kicked in and I was wrong every hour for a full shift until the engineers pushed the system to recognize daylight saving time.
Actually discjockeyjohn64 that feature in Nexgen is optional.
Your SLC engineering department could:
Use the hour fill to pull songs from a fill category to get to the TOH.
Set it so the next hours music starts when the current hours music ends.
Or possibly they set it that way intentionally to make sure the programming department does their job by filling each hour appropriately.
either one of the above could be true.
Your SLC engineering department could:
Use the hour fill to pull songs from a fill category to get to the TOH.
Set it so the next hours music starts when the current hours music ends.
Or possibly they set it that way intentionally to make sure the programming department does their job by filling each hour appropriately.
either one of the above could be true.
bean9 said:
As my daughter would say..OMG! What DID you do in those ten minutes?? Did you pace around the room, listening to nothing but the sound of your heartbeat pounding in your ears as the anxiety built that your favorite radio station may be gone forever? Indeed, that must have been a very difficult ten minutes for you.
nevermind mr bean's heartbeat, and panic attack anxiety, last sunday morning.....what about your room pacing, and pounding heartbeat, at the thought of two stiffed singles from 1976 almost getting airplay, and the potentiality of 99.9% of the people tuning out due to the unfamiliarity playlist factor.TVradioguru said:
It's sort of funny even in "Little 'ol Shelton", my Blackberry notifies me when there's 35 seconds of dead air. It takes me about a minute to log into the on-air computer and fix the prob. Generally within a minute it's taken care of. It doesn't happen often but IF it does there's a quick solution. No system is perfect and things happen... whether it's a fatfinger key stroke while editing a log or whatever. My engineer Jack Ondracek has thought of just about everything to keep KMAS running like a Swiss watch. He makes Galileo look like a Boy Scout...
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Good for you guys, Randy ... exactly the way it SHOULD work! I'm always impressed with pro-active engineers who come up with creative ways to show their passion for their station(s).
Bill Wolfenbarger said:
I would offer "fewer corporate layers and more common sense" but I'm concerned that will just get the usual suspects' panties in a wad because I'm company bashing. So I won't.
lolscott salvatori said:
Rural stations are either automated or they pay minimum wage to jocks, some still using tape, as they cannot afford the automation. So the rural stations tend to always have someone on the board, if not automated.
systemdump said:
They are?
They do?
They do?
They can't?
They do?
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