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Wolf-dead air for 15 minutes

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crainbebo

I tuned in to 100.7 around 9:10 tonight, and heard nothing but dead air. After about 8 minutes, commercials were heard. Was this technical problems, or a moment of silence? I know it's Memorial Day.

-crainbebo
 
The computer probably burped and needed a reboot....happens.....
 
crainbebo said:
I tuned in to 100.7 around 9:10 tonight, and heard nothing but dead air. After about 8 minutes, commercials were heard. Was this technical problems, or a moment of silence? I know it's Memorial Day.

-crainbebo
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Several minutes of dead air because of Memorial Day?? You're joking right? Son you need to get a larger tinfoil hat.
 
A station in a major market should have a backup system.
 
Bill Wolfenbarger said:
A station in a major market should have a backup system.
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I know of few even major market stations that have a backup automation system. My guess would be the playlist was faulty from a bad log and just stopped. I've seen this happen many times before

Maybe they need a backup traffic department?
 
HowardMBurgers said:
Bill Wolfenbarger said:
A station in a major market should have a backup system.
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I know of few even major market stations that have a backup automation system. My guess would be the playlist was faulty from a bad log and just stopped. I've seen this happen many times before

Maybe they need a backup traffic department?
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I'd say the Entercom engineering department needs to properly take care of engineering matters and spend less time worrying about the GM "countdown clock" (see http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=126103.msg1029729#msg1029729 for the explanation).
 
The major players have backup transmitters, right? Likely backup STLs as well. It is so simple to have a backup CD player or computer. If we can keep 4 stations on the air in Aberdeen with micro budgets, so can the big boys.

Sure, stuff happens. That's why you have backups. My mini staff goes crazy when we have 5 seconds dead air. As they should. It doesn't take much time for the listener to push another button.
 
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