WIOQ "Q102" dead air e early this morning

[SomeRadioGuy]

That's very good to hear! My biggest beef with radio these days is that issues often persist for days, weeks or even months, and nobody seems to notice or care. Kudos to you for actually LISTENING to the station you manage.

i pass by the studio 100s of times a day and always peak in to make sure the compressor/limiter lights are lit up.. if not, we've got no audio and have a problem

 

[JH_Radio]

i pass by the studio 100s of times a day and always peak in to make sure the compressor/limiter lights are lit up.. if not, we've got no audio and have a problem

I've seen it with audio not being ok in some way and it's not always easy to get ahold of the engineer.
To me, that's a bigger problem.

 

[kwthom]

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Jeff Smulyan of Emmis led an effort to get the radio industry to push the phone jack and FM chip, but got little significant industry support. Jeff left radio entirely.

The push-back came directly from the carriers.

People at that time were paying big bucks for data, and the carriers wanted no part in taking money out of their own pockets.

Verizon was a big "Nope!" in that space. One of those things the FCC really should have mandated the capability for phones sold in the US to have that capability.

 

[R.D.P.]

I worked for a big 50,000 Watt FM in NW PA for 4 years that carries Pittsburgh pirates baseball

We had a west coast game one night that didnt get over till 130am eastern or so.

And when my PD woke up at 6am, he heard dead air on the station.

We discovered the station had sat dead since the game ended at 130.. why? Either the network didn't send or they send but our automation didn't "see" the end of game closure tone .. which would've kicked our computer back into local automation mode.

Radio is not perfect, and i dont always like what happens or why. But you can have the best equipment and staff (which that station has/had/has/does) have.. and things can still fail.

Often those commenting from the outside have no idea whats actually going on, what the cause was or whats being done, but they beat it like a dead fish.

I love this business and treat any station i manage/work on air at like it's my own. i live above the station I manage now and we STILL have dead air or automation issues. I'm checking in and listening all the time, but stuff STILL happens

I'll do you one better. I live next door to my LPFM radio station and I'm always checking things out on a daily basis. Sometimes the Computer will stop because of issues with the software, hardware or another problem may be occurring. When it does, I'm always on top of it and seeing what I can do to fix the issue myself, before calling Mr. Chris. And yes...I always keep my bedroom radio on 24/7, so I can keep up too. Like you Mr. Walker sir, I take care of this radio station and make sure that everything is always working right.

Dan <><

P.S. I spend time in the studio for lengths of time, when I'm adding more songs to the mix. While updating, I keep a check on everything too.​

 

[kevtronics]

Floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, forest fires and even terrorist attack make all the new media inoperable. I often wonder what the high percentage of homes without radios will do when Alexa does not answer, the TV won't bring up broadcast or streamed or cable video and the cell phone has no signal.

When Superstorm Sandy hit NJ in 2012, there were people calling into WRNJ and saying they were listening on their car radio in their driveway because they didn't have any radios in their house.

 

[JH_Radio]

When Superstorm Sandy hit NJ in 2012, there were people calling into WRNJ and saying they were listening on their car radio in their driveway because they didn't have any radios in their house.

Now some electric car radios do not have AM (Tesla for example.)

 

[Rich_M]

Now some electric car radios do not have AM (Tesla for example.)

My new(er) LG Stereo only has FM as well.