[BC] The Main trouble with radio..

[miltron at mindspring.com]

There may have been someone there, but they weren't answering the phone, or, 
public couldn't get through the automated phone system.......
M
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Tonne" <tonne at comcast.net>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] The Main trouble with radio..


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