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The Nine Five O Automation

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At 7pm 10/24/08 for some time it was off the air for over twenty minutes. Automation does leave a saleman to scream. Michael Savage is one of the hi-lites of the line up. Money loss or money not made good make CC very mad for a very long time.
 
I heard from a comrad inside the cc complex, it was transmitter site problem and not an automation error.

Automated or Not, nothing can be done until an engineer showed up at the transmitter site to fix it.

No money lost, since they have so few spots, the 2 - 3 spots missed were probably made good in the next hour.
 
Apparently there are some bugs in NexGen they are trying to work out.
Macros don't fire and sometimes the system won't rejoin the satellite feed for whatever show is going on @ the time.
 
"Bugs" in NextGen?

I ran a station in the '80s where, if the overnight syndication jock pushed the wrong button just once it would screw up the order of prerecorded liners all night. Liners talking over the openings of songs.

Then there's today, when even a trained board op needs help because the touch-screen won't rejoin the net for some reason.

I'm not saying well-trained board ops have this problem. But there have been and will be "bugs" everywhere in automated systems.

Sorry, but I well remember smooth, entertaining radio 24/7 when it was all live.

Now, I can drive around Texas (like I had to do after Hurricane Ike) and hear the network commercial feeds after midnight for ten minutes -- one commercial after another -- playing over a few songs.

Fifteen minutes later, five minutes of silence, then rejoining the network in the middle of a song.

We still haven't gotten the automation business right...and automation goes back to the '60s at least!

It would be hilarious if I hadn't spent most of my life in the radio business.

The business I love...
 
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