Q1160 maybe the worst I've ever.....

[philrandy]

....Heard on sunday night. I took the time to note the Sunday June 28th broadcast from 7PM to about 9PM.  Total "absolute" dead-air time=11+minutes. Beyond that, there was about 18mins of this weird "dead-air" that consisted a clock ticking down to a tone sounder that (I guess) should signal some network computer to run a PSA which worked intermittantly. At the bottem of the 7PM hour, the "ticking timebomb" triggerd a computer-generated voice that was counting down raw cuts of comments of various sports figures and athletes and the highlights of the day. But being a national feed, unless you recognized the voice, you had NO IDEA who was speaking or what they were talking about! It started at "CUT 162" and ended at "CUT 184"!
The broadcast was a rerun of Laura Ingrahm but sounded like 2 shows were running at once: breaking off from 1 show and instantily starting in the middle of another? This really became apparent at 8:00.00PM as 1 tone triggerd AP radio news then at (approx) 8:00.12PM another different tone triggerd IRN/USA radio news. The 2 talked over each other for the entire news broadcast!  2 computers trying to preform 1 broadcast?
Did anyone else hear this "52 card pickup" of a broadcast?

[gr8oldies]

You heard a newsfeed that was intended for local stations to include cuts of their choice in their local sportscast. I rfemember WING had quite a problem with this several years ago.

[exradio]

Maybe they were doing a tribute to Clear Channel's progressive talk format on 1530 a few years back.  They went for months with frequent doses of double programming, silent periods, network news feeds superimposed on talk shows, silent commercial breaks, and shows from the wrong network.

[KyDXIn]

Maybe they were doing a tribute to Clear Channel's progressive talk format on 1530 a few years back.  They went for months with frequent doses of double programming, silent periods, network news feeds superimposed on talk shows, silent commercial breaks, and shows from the wrong network.

Here is actual footage of the studio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJpQbqdfDU4

If only it was so good!

[nmoore6676]

Maybe they were doing a tribute to Clear Channel's progressive talk format on 1530 a few years back.  They went for months with frequent doses of double programming, silent periods, network news feeds superimposed on talk shows, silent commercial breaks, and shows from the wrong network.

Here is actual footage of the studio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJpQbqdfDU4

If only it was so good!

Pretty funny but not as good as the old "I Love Lucy" candy factory episode.

[jry]

There is nothing worse than automation glitches.

They make silence sensors/alarms for dead air....... no alarms triggered.
What the heck do the suppliers sell for two things airing at once?
Just had that happen, two days in a row, somewhere else. Two "mixers" up in the computer. How that "just happens" is beyond me.

[KyDXIn]

Maybe they were doing a tribute to Clear Channel's progressive talk format on 1530 a few years back.  They went for months with frequent doses of double programming, silent periods, network news feeds superimposed on talk shows, silent commercial breaks, and shows from the wrong network.

Here is actual footage of the studio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJpQbqdfDU4

If only it was so good!

Pretty funny but not as good as the old "I Love Lucy" candy factory episode.

But this is a radio blog, not a candy blog.