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WGY Dead Air?

C

cowabunga

What's up with the Mighty WGY? It's airwaves were silent Monday afternoon for a long time? Is no one minding the store? It was interesting to hear the digital hash settle down fo a but on either side of the signal.
 
> Is no one minding the store?

More likely it took the engineers a bit to find out what failed. Even maybe they needed to return from the mountain to resolve it.

Sometimes problems, including those in the transmission system, can cause you to sit silent for a longer period than you wanted..

Even with redundant paths and such, there is always room for failure...
 
I heard the news guy on WGY monday night saying there was a power outage affecting several thousand customers in parts of albany, and guilderland... Apparently WGY's studios were running off of generator power. I heard it go off for a few minutes just after 5pm on monday.. I'm assuming thats when they lost power and were in the process of switching to generator power...
 
> What's up with the Mighty WGY? It's airwaves were silent
> Monday afternoon for a long time? Is no one minding the
> store? It was interesting to hear the digital hash settle
> down fo a but on either side of the signal.
>

Could lightning have struck the tower?
 
Ah, Thanks. I thought it sounded like a case of "unattended operation". It's common among many groups to leave the AM's cooking in another room while much attention is paid to the FM's. In Scranton, for example, CC uses the Mighty WARM studios for storage and the staff just wishes the thing would go away. I would hope WGY is different. Hail Corporate Radio!!!
 
> Ah, Thanks. I thought it sounded like a case of "unattended
> operation". It's common among many groups to leave the AM's
> cooking in another room while much attention is paid to the
> FM's. In Scranton, for example, CC uses the Mighty WARM
> studios for storage and the staff just wishes the thing
> would go away. I would hope WGY is different. Hail Corporate
> Radio!!!
>

When I worked at 'GY, they were not the bastard AM (this was before CC took over, maybe they are now). WGY has great heritage as NYs first radio station. But their downfall is they don't have a generator on line, ready at the flick of the switch. It takes the engineer(s) stringing power cords from the little Honda generator they put outside the back door to the production studio, and putting them on air.

That could explain a delay - longer if they engineer(s) were not in the building at the time of power loss.
 
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