Assuming this happened after the John Rothmann show, nobody is listening then anyway because KGO listeners want local talk radio, not some nationally syndicated show. My radio goes off promptly at 7pm, so if they want to have nothing but dead air after that, it's fine by me.
From 10 PM to 1 AM is the John Batchlor show. Lest you declare it to be worthless, you might note that for years John Rothmann said he was a regular listener of that show and found many of its guests gave regular and informative views on areas of the world never mentioned on KGO. No you wouldn't agree with all of those views, but getting another viewpoint is critical. Nothing worse than living in the Over-Woke Bay Area bubble and thinking you know it all. Example, Stephen F. Cohen, a scholar of Russian history whose ideas looked at the Russia/Ukraine problem from a different perspective. He was on the show for many years prior to his passing in the past year. His widow has been on the show in recent weeks
Have absolutely no idea who is on at 9:00. I think Rothmann is on from 4:00 to 7:00. Maybe listeners thought the dead air was Rothmann pausing before bringing up Harry S. Truman.
If they played a tape of him reading a Nixon biography in his best 1940's radio sounding voice it would triple their ratings..John has apparently over 15,000 books cluttering up his home right..lol
hmmm 15,000 books , many of them first editions, many signed, all in low-light display cases, I can't imagine that would be of any value, unless you are a reader.
@2:38 Automation malfunction: Precisely! NO one was minding the store. Earthquake? Regional disaster? Pass the Prevogen, please; KGO stays on auto-pilot (or goes dark). Nobody is home.
OK, then. By my unofficial tally, we have: 2 votes for "silencer is golden" 1 vote for "more silence, please" 0 votes for "bring back Arnstrong & Getty."
Dead air should not last more than a few seconds. A KGO employee notices it or a listener calls in and action is taken. It appears that literally nobody is listening.
There was a time when "technical difficulties" knocked stations off the air all the time. Doesn't happen much these days, but poorly maintained equipment will fail. And even if the chief engineer gets a message to put the station back on the air, it doesn't happen immediately when he walks into the transmitter building.
Was this a failure of the audio program or was the transmitter off the air? 50 years ago when I sold the early versions of broadcast studio automation systems, we had "silence sensors" which would fire the next programmed event if audio silence of a sufficient duration was detected. Does the 21st century automation NOT have this feature?
These days that might be called "an improvement."
ReplyDeleteAnd KGO probably got its highest rating in years!
ReplyDeleteAlso back to back Jim Bohannon show same show twice.
ReplyDeleteAssuming this happened after the John Rothmann show, nobody is listening then anyway because KGO listeners want local talk radio, not some nationally syndicated show. My radio goes off promptly at 7pm, so if they want to have nothing but dead air after that, it's fine by me.
ReplyDeleteFrom 10 PM to 1 AM is the John Batchlor show.
DeleteLest you declare it to be worthless, you might note that for years John Rothmann said he was a regular listener of that show and found many of its guests gave regular and informative views on areas of the world never mentioned on KGO.
No you wouldn't agree with all of those views, but getting another viewpoint is critical.
Nothing worse than living in the Over-Woke Bay Area bubble and thinking you know it all.
Example, Stephen F. Cohen, a scholar of Russian history whose ideas looked at the Russia/Ukraine problem from a different perspective. He was on the show for many years prior to his passing in the past year.
His widow has been on the show in recent weeks
KCBS all over again...
ReplyDeleteWell Rich, you've heard about the labor shortage, right?
ReplyDeleteHave absolutely no idea who is on at 9:00.
ReplyDeleteI think Rothmann is on from 4:00 to 7:00. Maybe listeners thought the dead air was Rothmann pausing before bringing up Harry S. Truman.
If they played a tape of him reading a Nixon biography in his best 1940's radio sounding voice it would triple their ratings..John has apparently over 15,000 books cluttering up his home right..lol
Deletehmmm 15,000 books , many of them first editions, many signed, all in low-light display cases, I can't imagine that would be of any value, unless you are a reader.
DeleteAutomation malfunction.
ReplyDelete40 minutes too short
ReplyDelete@2:38 Automation malfunction: Precisely! NO one was minding the store. Earthquake? Regional disaster? Pass the Prevogen, please; KGO stays on auto-pilot (or goes dark). Nobody is home.
ReplyDelete:30 sec dead air and our engineer and program director get a text notification...
Delete1:00 of dead air and the GM and Sales Manager get a text...
Needless to say...we don't have any dead air issues here @ K***
OK, then. By my unofficial tally, we have:
ReplyDelete2 votes for "silencer is golden"
1 vote for "more silence, please"
0 votes for "bring back Arnstrong & Getty."
Am I forgetting anyone?
Dead air should not last more than a few seconds. A KGO employee notices it or a listener calls in and action is taken. It appears that literally nobody is listening.
ReplyDeleteThere’s no staff in the booth when automation is running. Engineering and programming are notified and it’s taken care of remotely.
DeleteThere was a time when "technical difficulties" knocked stations off the air all the time. Doesn't happen much these days, but poorly maintained equipment will fail. And even if the chief engineer gets a message to put the station back on the air, it doesn't happen immediately when he walks into the transmitter building.
ReplyDeleteWas this a failure of the audio program or was the transmitter off the air?
ReplyDelete50 years ago when I sold the early versions of broadcast studio automation systems, we had "silence sensors" which would fire the next programmed event if audio silence of a sufficient duration was detected. Does the 21st century automation NOT have this feature?
Not if the automation server locks up. Silence alarms notify engineering and programming, but they would have to remote in to reboot the server.
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