I'm surprised no one noticed this but then it's not one of the GTA's highest rated stations. 

I woke up very early on Saturday morning (4:45 AM) and could not get back to sleep. It was way too early to get up, so I turned on the radio and tuned around to see if there was anything worth listening to. 

And that's when I passed by TSN 1050. But it wasn't exactly the CHUM everyone here knows. The station was distorted by overmodulated static and fuzzy audio and you could not understand a word anyone was saying. I'm assuming they were airing the ESPN feed overnight, but you couldn't tell. 

I thought it was just a temporary thing, but I tried it again about four hours later and the problem was still there. Another tune in after the noon hour and it continued. In fact, it wasn't until at least 4 in the afternoon that someone finally fixed it. 

That was nearly 12 hours that I know of that the station was unlistenable and unintelligible. You'd figure an alarm would have gone off alerting someone somewhere but with everything on auto-pilot, no one got the message. 

It was the longest single outage of a radio station I think I've ever heard and I'd love to know what happened. The ratings say not many people are listening to 1050. They certainly weren't for most of Saturday.