Dead air.
Not on my shift. Not that I'm gloating -- these things are kinda out of the control of the operator, until (s)he notices 'em. I'm sure I'll have my chance with this sort of thing soon enough.
A glitch in the programming during "Alternative Radio" featuring Tariq Ali:
Last thing I heard: "slums in Tehran".
Next thing I heard: "hispanic population in this country".
Inbetween there was some fast-forwarding of the CD -- on air -- not that I wouldn't panic under the circumstances and forget to turn off the module and hit the CUE channel before trying to skim through to about wherever what was just playing stopped playing. Also some music, which was nice.
But it was a couple of minutes of music, tops. Awkward, but not earth shattering.
I wonder if they had a backup running. It wasn't a *perfect* save, but it *was* saved pretty quick compared to some of what I've heard happen on air at other times!
I sure am glad I'm not there in CR to take the crazy calls -- "it's obviously a worldwide conspiracy involving the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Freemasons, the oil companies, the skull and crossbones society, NPR, Florida voters, and of course, the hispanic population in this country to prevent something from being aired that THEY didn't want us to hear".
Not that I don't take callers seriously -- but anytime there's real technical difficulty, there's always *someone* listening who is convinced it's *way* damn bigger than it really is.
Apologies to whoever was running the shift -- I don't mean to rub anything in, but just to "think out loud" on my own listening to the radio. It's just a matter of time before I have to handle something like that, and I need to know what I must do. It helps to hear other people's mistakes just like it helps to hear my own.
I just hope you got a good laugh out of it once you got off the air. :)
A glitch in the programming during "Alternative Radio" featuring Tariq Ali:
Last thing I heard: "slums in Tehran".
Next thing I heard: "hispanic population in this country".
Inbetween there was some fast-forwarding of the CD -- on air -- not that I wouldn't panic under the circumstances and forget to turn off the module and hit the CUE channel before trying to skim through to about wherever what was just playing stopped playing. Also some music, which was nice.
But it was a couple of minutes of music, tops. Awkward, but not earth shattering.
I wonder if they had a backup running. It wasn't a *perfect* save, but it *was* saved pretty quick compared to some of what I've heard happen on air at other times!
I sure am glad I'm not there in CR to take the crazy calls -- "it's obviously a worldwide conspiracy involving the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Freemasons, the oil companies, the skull and crossbones society, NPR, Florida voters, and of course, the hispanic population in this country to prevent something from being aired that THEY didn't want us to hear".
Not that I don't take callers seriously -- but anytime there's real technical difficulty, there's always *someone* listening who is convinced it's *way* damn bigger than it really is.
Apologies to whoever was running the shift -- I don't mean to rub anything in, but just to "think out loud" on my own listening to the radio. It's just a matter of time before I have to handle something like that, and I need to know what I must do. It helps to hear other people's mistakes just like it helps to hear my own.
I just hope you got a good laugh out of it once you got off the air. :)
posted by xeltifon at 6:18 PM
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