Two "local" radio stations operate in a way that I had some questions about and I don't want to ask over at radiodiscussions.com as they tend to be tailored much more towards people in the industry....
One of them, WLZR, has a morning show with Dee Snider of Twisted Sister. Now I know perfectly well that he's not sitting in Dayton doing the show and I actually read somewhere that he pre-records the show the day or night before and does it in a very short time. All he does is record his "commentary", song introductions, etc and someone else just inserts them between songs. Makes me wonder if he's on other stations around the country at the same time or different times.
How does that work ?
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Another station, WXEG, runs the syndicated Rover's Morning Glory show. This setup is pretty bad.... I've had the 'show' playing on my computer while the radio is on - the show is 100% talk, but the local radio station somewhat randomly inserts songs over the show. If they did it right, the listener would never know, but they don't. Songs will end and the hosts will be talking in the middle of a sentence, discussion, etc. There's never song introductions or "okay, we're back..." after a song. On Monday morning, whoever was running things on the local side was asleep or something ! All morning, they did the song insertion but forgot to shut off the morning show's feed ! Most of the time, the songs they played were their usual stuff, but quite a few times they played instrumental music. I tried to Shazam them and most weren't identified but one did come back as Pandora (Original Mix) by Alecx Boheme.
Is that not unusual nowadays ?
One of them, WLZR, has a morning show with Dee Snider of Twisted Sister. Now I know perfectly well that he's not sitting in Dayton doing the show and I actually read somewhere that he pre-records the show the day or night before and does it in a very short time. All he does is record his "commentary", song introductions, etc and someone else just inserts them between songs. Makes me wonder if he's on other stations around the country at the same time or different times.
How does that work ?
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Another station, WXEG, runs the syndicated Rover's Morning Glory show. This setup is pretty bad.... I've had the 'show' playing on my computer while the radio is on - the show is 100% talk, but the local radio station somewhat randomly inserts songs over the show. If they did it right, the listener would never know, but they don't. Songs will end and the hosts will be talking in the middle of a sentence, discussion, etc. There's never song introductions or "okay, we're back..." after a song. On Monday morning, whoever was running things on the local side was asleep or something ! All morning, they did the song insertion but forgot to shut off the morning show's feed ! Most of the time, the songs they played were their usual stuff, but quite a few times they played instrumental music. I tried to Shazam them and most weren't identified but one did come back as Pandora (Original Mix) by Alecx Boheme.
Is that not unusual nowadays ?
), when it gets screwed up, no one fixes it though. The things I described in the OP weren't a case of 10-15 seconds and someone realized it and fixed it, it was entire songs. I recorded a few of them on my phone and just listened to one of them - it had two songs playing at the same time.
