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Did technical glitch knock WRKO off the air for two hours? Station's morning conspiracist reports voices in his head are telling him it was Biden sabotage
By adamg on Thu, 09/05/2024 - 11:17am
Boston Radio Watch reports WRKO seems to have had some sort of transmitter problem this morning and so was off the air until about 8:30 a.m.
Oh, ho, but what's this? Jeff Kuhner took time out from his normal conspiracy theories about Democrats to blather on the station online feed, which was unaffected by the outage, that it was no mere technical glitch but instead a coordinated attack by Biden, Harris, Garland and Wray to silence him through sabotage at the 'RKO transmitter site out back of the Burlington Mall. Or as he summed up:
Okay, under siege here at WRKO. Biden administration now is desperately trying to silence me. Obviously others they are very worried about the information that we are giving out to you to the entire country, and so they, we don't know exactly what happened.
Somebody with actual radio technical experience is a tad skeptical of the theory:
BS, it is a brick bunker building that is fenced in, as are the towers. Plus the towers are in a swamp. Former Chief Eng here, I bet issue was transition from night power/pattern to daytime.
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this guy must think he's awfully important
There's a DSM for that but the name escapes me at the moment.
Shocked, shocked to find out
Shocked, shocked to find out that Joe Biden took time out of his morning to sabotage a radio transmitter in the middle of a swamp for two hours. I bet ol' Sleepy Joe feels like a fool now that they're back on the air though.
Curses, foiled again!
Curses, foiled again!
They seem to believe Biden would be saying.
Didn’t WRKO used to be an average station humans listened to? I probably have my late-20th-century goggles on again.
And maybe it was once a rock station? (Now my late-20th-c goggles are showing me WKRP.)
Those would be mid-20th-c
Those would be mid-20th-c goggles anon. At one time Dale Dorman as a DJ was a lot like Doctor Johnny Fever but of course that was back when DJs could pick what kind of music they wanted to play regardless of format, ratings, and music polls.
Not at WRKO, I think
WRKO was a top-40 station. DJs didn't pick the music; it was dictated by the charts. If a record sold enough copies to make the top 40, it was played, and songs typically got played every three hours.
This was the sort of music radio that prompted the rise of stations like WBCN, where you could hear deep cuts and DJs could indeed play what they wanted to.
Of course, once the bulk of radio listeners -- and the advertising dollars -- moved from AM to FM, stations like WBCN tightened their control over their playlists. Today most stations areen't even locally programmed any more. If I'm not mistaken, the songs played by all iHeart stations are chosen at corporate headquarters in San Antonio.
When I was a wee lad
When I was a wee lad, long before I found tech and computers. I wanted to be a radio disc jockey. I even went as far to get a scholarship to a school to go after high school.
I didn't go for a myriad of reasons. And in a way I was glad I didn't. I'd be out of a job now.
By the late 90s, most music was programmed on a computer. All a "Deejay" did was provide voice overs, maybe read the news/weather, and just make sure things stay up and running.
No choice in the music. No choice really at all. Show up and speak. Thats it.
Was kinda a let down once I figured all of that out.
Top 40 in the late 60s...
Did not mean playing the songs in order or not introducing new music. Radio culture wasn't like that back then. How do you think a song could get on the Top 40 if some DJ somewhere didn't introduce it to the public?
I always wondered...
...what was in back of the Burlington Mall.
I thought
there was another mall.
Yes, the Harris campaign is
Yes, the Harris campaign is terrified that WRKO might swing the election against them in Massachusetts.
Yes, but the show has reach
Yes, but the station has reach into that Boston suburb known as New Hampshire. The vice-president just visited New Hampshire, for some reason.
Good point. That obviously
Good point. That obviously means this was an action of the Biden administration.
For what it's worth
For what it's worth...
Never heard of this guy
I'm sure the Harris Campaign and Biden Administration have no idea who he is either.
I suppose that if his car broke down after he ignored the check engine light, he'd have the same response.
Give the guy this:
he knows what his audience wants to hear.
All five of them.
All five of them.
There’s a ‘Boston Radio Watch
There’s a ‘Boston Radio Watch?’
I’m comfortably certain that Administration officials would not commit federal crimes just to provide fodder for conspiracy-for-profit actors.
Wait, I thought Biden and Co. were doddering,
incompetent idiots, and now you're telling me they're evil masterminds? Pick a lane!
(Dude should be thanking his lucky stars he's an 8-minute walk from Sichuan Gourmet. They have maybe the best Sichuan wontons in chili sauce in Greater Boston. That whole menu slaps!)
It was the ghost of Dale Dorman
He was demanding they bring back music to 68 RKO...
UNCLE DALE!!
UNCLE DALE!!
My kids messed with my radio
My kids messed with my radio and it got switched from WJIB to WRKO. That was a rude awakening the next morning.
I like the cut of your JIB
There is 'JIB news to report! New owner John Garabedian (of the V66 Garabedians) plans to move it to 720, which will let him boost its power. More JIB for more people.