WKCI break-in on WDRC-FM

[Larry Weil]

At 11:02 AM -0500 12/18/03, Howard Glazer wrote:
>This morning at 10:43, WDRC-FM Hartford (102.9) was playing Andy
>Williams' "Happy Holiday" when it was interrupted for about 10 seconds
>by a promo, in progress, from KC-101 (WKCI Hamden, 101.3). The promo
>then cut out and the Williams song resumed.
>
>I've heard of audio from one station getting onto another's frequency
>before, but, except for the (I think) 1510 incident where some
>maintenance worker accidentally switched to WAAF (again, I think), I
>always though these incidents always happened when the wrong feed went
>to the transmitter from a group of stations under common ownership using
>the same facilities. But DRC and KCI have separate ownership and
>transmitter sites! How did this happen?
>

My best guess would be that this was an error by the telephone 
company, the transmission lines (fiber or ISDN) may have been crossed.

-- 
Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH