It is not relevant to that topic. This is a one in a few hundred thousand or more occurrence. When was the prior time you heard of a major group's major cluster all going off?
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You can notify Nielsen, but the notice only comes out in places where ad agencies are very unlikely to look.
The book is 4 weeks, about 500 hours 6 AM to Midnight. This was two and a half hours, Likely will have no effect.
This is supposed to be all new facilities with the latest tech. Last year, iHeart consolidated all of its NYC stations into one facility on W55th Street. Some of these stations had been downtown at the AT&T building. The company gave some investors a tour of the new studios last summer:
www.insideradio.com
Seems to me this space was previously used for iHeart corporate offices and some studios for Premiere. The bad news about putting everyone in the same place is that when one goes down, they might all go down.
Investors Get A Tour of iHeart’s ‘Compact’ and ‘Sleek’ NYC Studios.
It’s not all that often that a Wall Street analyst offers his take on a radio studio complex but that’s exactly what B Riley Securities Senior Equity Research Analyst Dan
Seems to me this space was previously used for iHeart corporate offices and some studios for Premiere. The bad news about putting everyone in the same place is that when one goes down, they might all go down.
Generally the EAS gear is at the studio and if the studios were not "talking" to the transmitters, any EAS activation would not be broadcast.
The gear is at the studio so that each station can do its own local origination test.
Were they possibly Hacked ????
I considered that, too. But if that were the case, I think we would have heard an announcement. If it is an engineering error or problem, those don't get explained.
Okay 👍🏻 thanks very much
Does "Sound Cloud" Failed? It rain? Do they have enough engineers?
Probably the Houston power outage in February a couple winters ago. I think one of the major tower sites lost power after running on generator for days.
Before that? There was a power outage at Sears Tower that took down most of the Chicago FM band briefly in 2020, until Aux services could be activated on at the John Hancock.
I didn't say it defeats the argument, just that it "doesn't help."
But the failure wasn't AM/FM radio. Radio was still operating just fine.
Some might say it sounded better than ever. 😂
During the build up to Desert Storm, KWKR at nights was on a satellite service (I forget the name) that had its studios in the same building as CNN office in LA. They got a bomb threat. A couple of hours of silence one Evening I don't blame the guy for getting out of the building. As the late Jim Nabors said "surprise surprise surprise"
Today, one day and several hours after the initial outage, WOR still can’t figure out how to get Sean Hannity’s show on the air. Or was his show canceled on WOR and I missed it?
In place of Hannity, once again, it’s Len & Michael interviews from their morning show.
And it’s the same interviews they ran yesterday.
They couldn’t get Mark Simone back into the studio to do a show? Jeez.
4:30 update: The online stream of WOR had been “NBC NewsRadio” until a moment ago, then a WOR newscast and traffic crashed into it. Things seem to have returned to normal online, and now, on the air as well.
In place of Hannity, once again, it’s Len & Michael interviews from their morning show.
And it’s the same interviews they ran yesterday.
They couldn’t get Mark Simone back into the studio to do a show? Jeez.
4:30 update: The online stream of WOR had been “NBC NewsRadio” until a moment ago, then a WOR newscast and traffic crashed into it. Things seem to have returned to normal online, and now, on the air as well.
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There was another network crash this afternoon.
From what I've learned, there was a faulty piece of hardware implemented into their network that keeps trying to override the network configuration. They're basically playing whack-a-mole right now trying to ensure the entire system configuration is back to normal.
So if AM/FM station goes down "In case of an emergency, we don't know who to tell you to listen to"
This is not a "official" Emergency way to operate, just common sence. If doo doo hits the fan and Internet, cable TV, phone service and cell services are out. Use your car radio, pick the FM band, and push the scan button. If nothing then try AM. If there is nothing on either band it might be the apocalypse. Time to get right with God.
I forgot if you live in a really rural area your local emergency services might have some handheld battery powered CB units. Some State Police might still have a CB to communicate with truckers in their cars. Channel 9 is the emergency channel. 19 is the truckers channel. I am not familiar with Ham but sometimes they can use "skip" to get out amazing distances.
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