[BC] The Main trouble with radio..

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

One problem, that gets exacerbated with digital inks is that
even if you have a real DJ in the studio, the studio monitor
is seldom the off-air signal, but rather the before-processed
output of some digital whizzbang like an audio board in a
computer.

So, nobody knows if the transmitter is off-the-air. Several
months ago, WCRB was off the air for a whole day and
nobody knew. The carrier was on, fat dumb and happy.

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Richard B. Johnson
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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting at gmail.com>
> I gotta wonder how they "aired the wrong format" for 8 1/2 hours ... and no
> one noticed. That's just.. well, goes beyond way wrong.
> 
> And Im assuming when the stations would pop off the air and the only call
> you got was from the remote control that it was in the overnight hours.
> However, if it was earlier then that and people were in the building..
> that's unacceptable.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/30/07, Alan Alsobrook <radiotech at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Case in point recently on a holiday the "morning show" of the #1 station
> took the day off in a top 50 market. Some automation errors occurred,
> and the station started running a completely wrong format at 0600.. This
> was not discovered and corrected until it managed to trip a silent
> sensor around 1430.  Do you think this could have happened in the 80's??
> I sure don't, hec if the overnight DJ played a single out of format
> record at 0342, he would have probably known about it in less than 15
> minutes.
> 
> Currently, several times I've noticed some of my client stations trip
> off the air for one reason or another. I would go to the transmitter and
> get the station back on the air, usually about an hour, and never
> receive a call from anyone except, the remote control.
> 
> Gary Glaenzer wrote:
> > or too few owners
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "wini" <wini at intrnet.net>
> >>Hey...consider this.
> >>Maybe there are not  too many radiuo stations.
> >>Just too few formats.
> 
> >>>>The best thing that can be done on AM is fewer stations, higher power.
> >>>>R
> 
> This sounds like a typical New York answer, Translated - "if it doesn't
> help New York, who cares." :)
> 
> Actually, if you want to improve local service, Take down all the 50's
> and put a bunch of 1's in their place. Then you would start to see radio
> that would serve its community.
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