blank wrote:

bumper music a bunch of times, with no host voice following, and a few
times with someone mumbling of technical difficulty, then lots of
repeated spots....took 25 minutes to get the show started.

I'm reminded of a time when KXL in Portland was running Talknet (this goes
back a few years obviously). Apparently they only part of an hour of the show
and no backup, so they filled over 40 minutes with PSAs and ads.

With no backup to a live program and no music in the format, what's a board op
to do? At least in a music format you can play tunes and nobody's the wiser.
But a dozen spots and people do notice.

On Tue, 4 May 2010 00:16:00 EDT, (David Kaye)
wrote:

With no backup to a live program and no music in the format, what's a board op
to do? At least in a music format you can play tunes and nobody's the wiser.
But a dozen spots and people do notice.

In Virginia, I believe we had a couple or three hours of non-dated
Clark Howard shows burned to a CD. We also had a CD filled with
station promos and PSAs, but for short-term fill.