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The River dead air

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RockofHBG

Yesterday, as my wife and I made one of our frequent shopping jaunts around Central PA, I noticed that The River was sitting dead. The transmitter was on-air as my scan kept landing on the frequency, but there was no audio. The carrier sat quiet. I first noticed at around 1:30 PM and was still that way at least 90 minutes later. Anybody know what happened? Kind of strange. If it were an automation issue, you think that sooner rather than later they would have put some audio on the air. I'd hate to think that the station sat unmanned and nobody noticed, but last I knew The River was still live on Saturdays. Anybody?
 
RockofHBG said:
Yesterday, as my wife and I made one of our frequent shopping jaunts around Central PA, I noticed that The River was sitting dead. The transmitter was on-air as my scan kept landing on the frequency, but there was no audio. The carrier sat quiet. I first noticed at around 1:30 PM and was still that way at least 90 minutes later. Anybody know what happened? Kind of strange. If it were an automation issue, you think that sooner rather than later they would have put some audio on the air. I'd hate to think that the station sat unmanned and nobody noticed, but last I knew The River was still live on Saturdays. Anybody?
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Seems like nobody was in the building. Premium Choice running on the other stations perhaps and the River VTed?
 
This is true! There are two kinds of people out there these days. The unemployed (or under employed) and the over employed, who have to use time managemant techniques just to use the rest room.....and it would be helpful if a monitor were installed in said restroom...and maybe an auto start for various computers. On second thought....that would cost money so get used to the dead air.
 
I know other stations have a "trigger" in place that notifies the engineer or PD when there is at least 90 seconds of dead air. Notification comes thru text message so no matter where the engineer or PD are they get a message about dead air.
 
If they were silent for that long there had to be several failures. Aside from the automation failure, there had to be a failure of their alerting system. The Clear Channel Emergency Operations Center should have received notice and been able to log in and get audio running again. Station personnel also should have received alerts that there was silence.
 
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