Re: [IRCA] 1490 CBS network feed stuck

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Whitacre wrote:
> So I'm listening to a Perseus TOH session from 12/13 @ 5pm EST and on 
> 1490, out of the 'pile' comes a 800Hz test tone for a few seconds and 
> then the announcement "CBS radio network, studio 42."
>
> It goes on for the whole 5 minutes of my 'tape.'
>
> Anybody ever hear this before on 1490?
>
> We hear it sometimes when we have feed problems on VOA/RFE/RFA programs 
> at work.  It's not funny then.  ;-)

"CBS Radio Networks, CHANNEL 42" is actually what you were hearing. Hard 
to pin down, since it doesn't even have to have been a CBS network 
affiliate you were hearing. The CBS radio network backbone is used by 
many other nets, too, including all the Westwood One feeds, Fox News 
Radio, Air America, etc - and it could have been an affiliate of ANY of 
those services with an automation foulup causing it to be broadcasting 
programming that wasn't really there.

It's most commonly heard on weekend evenings when WW1 sports programming 
has ended and the automation at the local station level doesn't 
correctly switch away to whatever's supposed to be airing next.

s
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