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Lights are on ...but no one's home in Ottawa
City News ...FM 101/ 1310 AM - Ottawa yesterday : spot .....dead air ..(2-3minutes) ...out of market weather ..dead air ....(2-3) minutes.....promo...dead air (2-3 minutes) ..and so forth ...for hours ! ...City Snooze ! Good Work Rogers !
- Radio Bob
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Well, the company did cut more jobs this week...
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torontostan wrote:
Shocking how many stations don't have silence detectors these days. Seems like an obvious $1000 investment.
Agreed.
However, the company still has to have someone on a close tether, er, on staff who can react to such alerts/alarms in a timely manner... otherwise, the investment be it $10, $1000 or $10000 is just a waste.... or shareholder equity...
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One has to wonder...did ads air okay? Were the advertisers okay with this situation or did they want their money back?
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Shocking how many stations don't have silence detectors these days. Seems like an obvious $1000 investment.
Not even $1000. pira.cz has a freeware silence sense app for Windows... you can't beat free. Just install it on the same computer as your OTA logger and take the same input that feeds the logger software.
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City News ...FM 101/ 1310 AM - Ottawa yesterday : spot .....dead air ..(2-3minutes) ...out of market weather ..dead air ....(2-3) minutes.....promo...dead air (2-3 minutes) ..and so forth ...for hours ! ...City Snooze ! Good Work Rogers !
Back in December, the northernmost tower in 1310's five-tower DA off the 416 at McKenna Casey had no lights on it... and this is just a hop skip and a jump from YOW! It's since been fixed... all five towers were lit up when we drove by a few nights ago, going home from hockey in Kemptville.
Meanwhile, Bell's 580 CFRA now has strobes on its four massive towers just down the road, and red LEDs at night, all synchronized.