Re: [IRCA] [DXFlorida] Re: WIOD 610 Miami, problems

["W. Curt Deegan" <WWWR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What is interesting, is that the good old days of live radio -- so often 
lamented amongst the hobbyists and old-time practitioners -- are just what 
WIOD is.  Live 24/7, no automation.

It was because of that they had only the network feed on the air.  No one 
and no computer to do IDs, run ads, read the news, just the EIB network 
filler between segments of Limbaugh's show.  It was fortunate there was 
filler, otherwise there would have been long periods of dead air during the 
three hour event.

WINZ however, with their automation, continued on so that the evacuation 
was not even apparent to listeners.  It wasn't until I read press reports 
that I realized both stations -- along with 6 FMs -- had been evacuated, 
and it was more than just a WIOD problem.

Maybe a little bit of automation ain't such a bad thing?  At least from the 
station management perspective.  As a listener I found the 3 hours of 
nearly commercial free programming quite enjoyable.  To put it in 
perspective, it was the same content you would hear over the Internet from 
the Limbaugh web site; parodies, network promos, and all.

Also interesting is that this occurred exactly during the three hours of 
Limbaugh's program.  Hmmm...

But then, Al Franken and Progressive Radio was on WINZ, so the conspiracy 
theories are going to be a little more difficult to formulate.

Man, can you imagine the uproar if those two Clear Channel, co-resident 
stations got their wires crossed?

Curt
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W. Curt Deegan
Boca Raton, (southeast) FL


At 05:24 PM 2/7/2006, Milspec390@xxxxxxx wrote:
>Probing, probing, always testing. Radio was once where we went when 
>something happened. Still the case with small stations. But take 
>'voice-tracked juke boxes' as one scurrilous wag - not undersigned 
>scurrilous wag, either. Sorry. - termed them, lob a dullard's threat, and 
>a prime information source is nullified. Safe, gentle, proven effective.
>
>  Evacuated with nary a moment to croak an announcement into the computers 
> for periodic repetition? Goodness! Those iBUNq/monopolycasters sure are 
> smart. What'll they think of next? Radios with fins? Audience soothed by 
> Limbaugh's sonorous soporifics blissfully unaware nobody's home. After a 
> while, the material writes itself....
>
>
> 
>=Z.=
>
>Paul Vincent Zecchino
>Manasoviet Key, FL
>BT
>
>                      "I wouldn't give you two cents for it."
>                                                    - Gen. Curtis LeMay,, 
> USAF
>                                                      re 'the future'.


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