[BC] Silent HD-2 operations

[Allen Sherrill]

>From: WFIFeng at aol.com

>If you do happen to hear any dead channels, please report it here. It will be
>interesting to see just har far and wide this apathy spreads. So far, we have
>CT/MA and California in the mess... dead air going on for *days* on major
>market stations' secondaries. I guess not even the PD's or 
>Engineers, or GM's are
>listening!


Willie:

In fairness, let's not limit this to the HD channels.  Barry and I 
both have quite a bit of experience with a certain cluster where dead 
air/multiple sources on the main analog channels seems to be 
tolerated to an uncomfortable extent.

Without going into a lot of detail, let's just say that I spent a lot 
of time rigging up alarms to catch dead air, and found myself the 
only one who cared about such problems when they happened after hours.

This is ultimately a management issue.  The outfits that lock up the 
building at 6PM and can't be bothered to pay anybody to do quality 
control, are the ones that will have dead or messed-up HD2 
channels.  The stations where management really cares about the 
product will do something about these problems.

Allen Sherrill