Duh

[herdgirl72]

Forgetful radio DJ broadcasts into the ether


A County Durham radio DJ filled his breakfast show with witty banter, chat about the news and the all-important weather ... but for an hour nobody heard a word of it.
Andy Greener thought he was broadcasting to his loyal listeners as usual, but because he forgot to press a button in the Radio Teesdale studio, his carefully composed thoughts disappeared into the ether.

Instead, fans of his show heard 60 minutes of music and jingles as an automated back-up system kicked in to prevent radio silence.

Meanwhile, station boss Peter Dixon who was listening at home, was trying to alert the presenter on the phone but the former police officer, known as Mr Andy, was too busy chatting away to answer the phone.

Eventually, Mr Dixon got through and only then did the red-faced DJ realise the on-air light in the studio was firmly extinguished.

The independent station, which broadcasts to 25,000 people in rural County Durham from the market town of Barnard Castle, has a community licence to broadcast locally.

The presenter said: "I've been doing the show three days a week for 10 months and always pressed the button at the right moment. Goodness knows why I forgot this time.

"The studio phone kept ringing, but I was too busy talking to answer. I now know that some of the calls were from people pointing out the blunder."

Mr Dixon, the station's only employee, will not fire his "excellent" breakfast show DJ, who is one of 35 volunteers who have learnt their radio skills from scratch.

The manager said: "It's quite funny he was talking to himself for an hour."

[jag]

Gosh, don't you just hate it when that happens?

[Dave Loudin]

How many times have killer comments/mixes/post hits gone down the cue channel?

[SPIKE NESMITH!]

I knew of a guy who broadcast his demotape for another station across the entire west of Scotland.

Does nobody listen to the air monitor anymore?

[Scott Reppert]

How many times have killer comments/mixes/post hits gone down the cue channel?

My problem was always the cue channel going over the air.

On-air channel: The Swingle Singers "Scarborough Fair".

Cue channel: Iron City Houserockers "Junior's Bar".

Oopsy...

[Arp2]

How many times have killer comments/mixes/post hits gone down the cue channel?

Does nobody listen to the air monitor anymore?

Are they digital? ("DAB," is it?) Does theirs have the delay, too? That might explain it........

[Big Media]

Does nobody listen to the air monitor anymore?

No. See Marty Fox.




Does anyone know what the hell happened to him after he left WKEE that fateful night? Does anyone have audio of that phone call?

[Jon Fox]

When I used to board op, I can only think of one time where something went out over the air that shouldn't. I was a board op at WTCS and running a Pirate game... I'm not a big baseball fan so I decided to turn one of the Westwood One receivers in the back that wasn't being currently being used to Air America Radio...I then cued it up in audition and listened while still paying attention to the Pirates. After that Pirate game, I accidently hit the wrong pot and so WTCS was an Air America affiliate for four minutes until I realized the mistake.