[BC] The Main trouble with radio..

[Jim Tonne]

> WCRB was off the air for a whole day and
> nobody knew.

The listners didn't either?   If the station didn't
have any listeners, why did they bother being
on the air?

Didn't the phone ring off the hook so someone
could answer?  Oh, stupid me, I assumed there
WAS a someone there!  Excuse me.

- JimT




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <RichardBJohnson at comcast.net>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] The Main trouble with radio..


> 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.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Richard B. Johnson
> Read about my book
> http://www.LymanSchool.org
>
>
> -------------- 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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