Re: More Boston dead-air party

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com>]

dan.strassberg@att.net wrote:


>Well, after--I would say--at most, two weeks of STRN, WBPS, for the last week
>or so, has been back to dead air from 8:00 PM to 4:00 AM M-F, except for the
>aforementioned IDs and news feed. Unless the cause is yet another technical
>glitch (of which WBPS has been afflicted with many), and the programming 
>makes
>a quick return, this has to have been one of the shortest runs of a new 
>format
>in Boston radio history.

That's interesting.  Usually during satellite programming, IDs and cutaways 
to network news are triggered by closures or tones from the program 
source.  Unless they just programmed the automation to fire an ID and 
switch sources at a hard time, this tells me that the syndicator is the one 
sending dead air, but IS sending the TOH closure.  Weird.