[BC] The show must go on!

[cldube]

Our transmitter was off the air due to a commercial power failure 
Sunday morning for about an hour
(we have no generator- unfortunately). Our control op at the station 
asked what she could do, and I said to
keep going along as if "you were on the air as we might have 5 or 500 
listeners listening on line". This totally threw her, as even though 
she is a very experienced and brilliant veteran broadcaster, the 
whole online operation exists below the radar of most studio 
personnel. It reminded me that this isn't yet second nature! As I 
mentioned this to others, I received the same reaction. We have to 
lose some old ways of thinking.

Chuck Dube
WFCR, Amherst, MA.

Message: 13
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:24:41 -0500
From: "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting at gmail.com>
Subject: [BC] WXXI-FM Mishap

Paul posted:
*Yesterday, I was working on a project and listening to WXXI-FM out of
Rochester (I worked for the TV side in the middle 70s and I know some of the
current radio folk).  I'd been having some internal wireless network
problems, of my own doing, over the last few days, so I wasn't all that
surprised to hear the sound hiccup, stop and start again.  But then the
music started running forward, then backward, then at double speed, then
quadruple speed before it went silent and then resumed.*

**
*I didn't give it a whole lot of thought, but I'd never heard a network
problem like that before.*

**
*Within about 20 minutes, an extremely chagrined announcer quietly explained
that all the sounds heard earlier were his doing.  It seems the XXI
transmitter had gone off the air, and he was just piddling around while they
were off.  But, as he noted, he had forgotten that the on-line listeners
were still connected.*

**
*It could have been worse, much worse*