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[alans613]

Main thing I recall immediately after the assassination was that ALL radio stations stopped playing music for several days...something that would clearly not happen today under a similarly dreadful circumstance.

Au Contrare...many music stations stopped on 9/11/2001 and went all news...some even abandoned commercials.  So I think something of the gravity of a Presidential assassination would. Agreed, not all would, but there are still a few companies here and there who have a conscience...

I remember on 9/11/01 that Z-93 & Hot 102.9 went to a CNN feed, while CC's Mix 107.7 & The X went to ABC NEWS.  WBNS-FM/Columbus(Which had went Hot AC two months earlier as "The New 97.1) went to a CBS news feed.  All of them stayed without music for most of the day IIRC. 

[BobOnTheJob]

Main thing I recall immediately after the assassination was that ALL radio stations stopped playing music for several days...something that would clearly not happen today under a similarly dreadful circumstance.

Au Contrare...many music stations stopped on 9/11/2001 and went all news...some even abandoned commercials.  So I think something of the gravity of a Presidential assassination would. Agreed, not all would, but there are still a few companies here and there who have a conscience...

I remember on 9/11/01 that Z-93 & Hot 102.9 went to a CNN feed, while CC's Mix 107.7 & The X went to ABC NEWS.  WBNS-FM/Columbus(Which had went Hot AC two months earlier as "The New 97.1) went to a CBS news feed.  All of them stayed without music for most of the day IIRC. 

True...many did. But likewise, I know of stations with no studio...just a voice trackable automation system with in house music and no news source. Some stations simply have no capability of "going live" any longer. That would have been unheard of in 1963.

[Jason Roberts]

Main thing I recall immediately after the assassination was that ALL radio stations stopped playing music for several days...something that would clearly not happen today under a similarly dreadful circumstance.

Au Contrare...many music stations stopped on 9/11/2001 and went all news...some even abandoned commercials.  So I think something of the gravity of a Presidential assassination would. Agreed, not all would, but there are still a few companies here and there who have a conscience...

I remember on 9/11/01 that Z-93 & Hot 102.9 went to a CNN feed, while CC's Mix 107.7 & The X went to ABC NEWS.  WBNS-FM/Columbus(Which had went Hot AC two months earlier as "The New 97.1) went to a CBS news feed.  All of them stayed without music for most of the day IIRC. 

True...many did. But likewise, I know of stations with no studio...just a voice trackable automation system with in house music and no news source. Some stations simply have no capability of "going live" any longer. That would have been unheard of in 1963.

True, Bob.  But most of those "closet" stations have the ability to tie into other stations in the building, so it wouldn't be that hard to rig a simulcast...