My Two Cents

In the post below about WREF having dead air or no audio, Turntable said it is unexceptable for a station to have no audio for 5 hours. What if the problem is beyond the station's control? What do I mean? I recall one time back in February 2004 990 The X was off the air for more than 12 hours becuase a squirrel ate some wires at the CL&P Substation about a mile from the station. There was no power in that end of town for 12 hours and the station doesn't have a back up generator.

In November 2004 a tanker truck delivering gas to a gas station not far from that radio station spilled quite a bit of fuel. As a precaution power to that end of town was cut at 8:58AM and the station went off the air for a few hours. Again no generator at the station.

Both of these situations were beyond the control of the radio station.

> In the post below about WREF having dead air or no audio,
> Turntable said it is unexceptable for a station to have no
> audio for 5 hours. What if the problem is beyond the
> station's control? What do I mean? I recall one time back in
> February 2004 990 The X was off the air for more than 12
> hours becuase a squirrel ate some wires at the CL&P
> Substation about a mile from the station. There was no power
> in that end of town for 12 hours and the station doesn't
> have a back up generator.
>
> In November 2004 a tanker truck delivering gas to a gas
> station not far from that radio station spilled quite a bit
> of fuel. As a precaution power to that end of town was cut
> at 8:58AM and the station went off the air for a few hours.
> Again no generator at the station.
>
> Both of these situations were beyond the control of the
> radio station.
>

Agreed. Sometimes it is simply out of the station's control.
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> Agreed. Sometimes it is simply out of the station's control.
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if they had a backup generator it wouldn't have been a problem... we have enough fuel on hand to run our 3 station cluster (including 1 on site xmitter) for 2 days and our site generator will run 2 xmitters for 36 hours.

and were in an unrated market...

Different owners have different priorities. The new owners Davidson Media (relatively new... it's been 1 year now) will more than likely invest in a generator before winter. They understand what's important and give the management the right tools (i.e. necessary tools) to make/keep the station successful.<P ID="signature">______________



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> Different owners have different priorities. The new owners
> Davidson Media (relatively new... it's been 1 year now) will
> more than likely invest in a generator before winter. They
> understand what's important and give the management the
> right tools (i.e. necessary tools) to make/keep the station
> successful.
>

Is Davidson all leasing on the stations? or how do they run the stations programming wise.

As you know, two of them were recently purchased in Springfield by Davidson.

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