[BC] Split level combine and the loss of the analog-only transmitter

[Glen Kippel]

On 4/21/07, RichardBJohnson at comcast.net <RichardBJohnson at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> In New England many stations don't even know if they are on-the-air.
> Last Sunday morning I hit WCRB  (99.5 MHz on my truck radio. There
> was no audio from 9:00 AM through 12:15 PM. The audio probably failed
> before that. The radio station didn't answer their telephone either.
> Now, I may be naive. I thought that if a STL failed, the transmitter
> was required to be off-the-air. I guess it's okay to have three hours
> of dead air nowadays. Nobody is watching.


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That's no problem, as they wouldn't have any listeners, either!