[BC] Off the air ... and no one cares

[Tom]

And digital broadcasting, with its inherent INABILITY to directly 
monitor the on-air signal, due to latency issues... it's only going 
to get worse.

Who thought this mess up, anyway?

Tom S.

Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:
>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.
>
>
SNIP
>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.