Re: [IRCA] Someone TESTING on 940 Khz Correction............

["Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can say alotta stations aren't monitored or checked overnights or
weekends. But I can say that where I work, we constantly monitor our
station... especially when we know someone isn't around the station, we make
it to check at least once an hour to make sure we're on the air and we've
got audio.  We even check late/overnights and weekends too.

On the rare occassion we have gone dead air or had other audio/transmission
problems, once we get to rectifying it, checking event logs. .we can see
it's never persisted for more then 5 minutes.

Paul

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Larry Stoler <lstoler99@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Scott, you're right.  I saw that happen on a number of occasions when I
> worked in radio.
>
> I can also remember times when the automation would misfire one or more
> events and the station would deny that there was a problem.  The next day,
> the problem mysteriously disappeared.  I wonder how that happened? I have my
> theories but they don't matter today.
>
> Unfortunately most stations are not monitored or checked out today
> especially after 7:00 weeknights and most of the time on weekends with the
> exception of remotes which usually take place during a midday daypart on the
> weekend.  Otherwise, forget it and this is not about to change in my
> opinion.
> Larry
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Fybush" <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Someone TESTING on 940 Khz Correction............
>
>
> Robert S.Ross VA3SW wrote:
>>
>>     Heard a Station Testing on 940 Khz early this morning..No idea who it
>>>> was??? Did anyone else hear this Test??? Or have any idea if a Station had a
>>>> Test planned early this morning???
>>>>
>>>
>> This sounds very much like the "CBS Radio Network, channel 43" tones that
>> were/are frequently heard. When that happens, it's not a station testing -
>> it's just automation gone wrong. What's usually going on is that a station
>> is taking a network feed of a football game, and after the game the
>> automation fails to switch the station back to its usual program source, so
>> whatever's on the satellite channel where the game was just keeps playing,
>> sometimes all night until someone comes in the next morning.
>>
>> Unless you can find someone local to the station that's running the wild
>> satellite feed, the odds are pretty low that you'll ever figure out who it
>> was - though at least you've narrowed down who it wasn't. Keep in mind that
>> even the station itself may not know that they were broadcasting this loop
>> overnight!
>>
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