{"id":14956,"date":"2016-04-18T17:58:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T21:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=14956"},"modified":"2016-04-18T17:58:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T21:58:50","slug":"potty-mouth-laura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=14956","title":{"rendered":"Potty Mouth Laura"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laura Ingraham losing it<\/a><\/p>\n

A syndicated host must trust their engineer and \/ or not screw with them, and under all circumstances you have to assume your microphone is on.<\/p>\n

Friday, Laura Ingraham’s headphones stopped working on the air. As listeners to Rush Limbaugh have learned over the years, what the host says is fed back to the host so they can hear themselves and maintain a consistent audio level. The engineer also can pass messages to the host via the IFB – an audio channel heard only by the host.<\/p>\n

Upon not hearing herself, Laura went ballistic and started telling her engineer what to do. She was scared of “dead air”. Because radio transmitters can fail for a variety of reasons, many stations have “dead air detectors”. They listen to the over the air signal, and if a certain amount of time goes by with no audio, automated equipment kicks in and plays canned music, and the station engineer is paged to respond to find the problem. Working from the end, the cause might be: transmitter lost power, transmitter failed, studio to transmitter link failed, studio problems, satellite downlink failed, distributor uplink (Westwood One in this case) failed, communication from production studio to distributor failed, or a problem within the production studio – and if the host does the show from a home studio, that link can also fail (over ISDN or the Internet). Most stations have engineers on a contract basis, so the station owner is going to get a bill if this happens. If the cause was at the network, that can make station owners unhappy.<\/p>\n

If this had happened to Rush, he would – and has many times – say something like “a note to my engineer – I’m not hearing myself” and go on his way. What Laura did was panic – “what do I do!?” The answer is obvious – you just keep doing your show as if nothing is wrong. If you are really off the air, it doesn’t matter. Laura then starting barking orders at her engineer to put on a tape and call Westwood One. She then declared if the engineer didn’t do something, the show was going to lose every fucking affiliate.<\/p>\n

I don’t know for a fact that the recording went out over the network, but even if it was dumped, you never ever swear into a microphone, even if you think it is dead. This is surprising since she is far from a radio novice. I guess the election must been stressing her out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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