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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How long were they broadcasting without a tower?

How were they not already aware that there was dead air? Was anyone out there even listening in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A shocking number of radio stations do not listen to their own broadcasting.

Source: A radio listener that has looked for the radio station's phone number, while wishing an employee was listening and could just shout at the DJ about their open mic, dead air, and other obvious mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Its all commercials now anyways. Of course no one is listening.

[–] troyunrau 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The void would be an improvement. I think, electrically speaking, they were screaming into the ground.