I know I sound ungrateful at time about the issue of testing, but this recurring problem really pisses me off.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is the “testing” done by one person in one hour.\u00a0\u00a0 By the time I noticed them, they had done over 600 tests.<\/p>\n
\r\n+---------------------+------------+--------------------------------+-------------+\r\n| notetime | streamname | ShowName | time |\r\n+---------------------+------------+--------------------------------+-------------+\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:12:10 | WMOV AM | 1360 Live | 43 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:12:59 | KLIX AM | AM Idaho | 22 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:13:45 | CRN #1 | Barry Farber | 28 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:14:33 | CRN #1 | Doug Stephan's Good Day | 22 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:15:12 | CRN #5 | Doug Stephan's Good Day | 23 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:15:52 | KSBN AM | Doug Stephan's Good Day | 32 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:16:21 | Lifestyle | Doug Stephan's Good Day | 21 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:17:02 | WHIR AM | Duke & the Doctor | 22 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:17:46 | WRWH AM | Duke & the Doctor | 26 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:18:40 | WFED AM | Federal Drive | 41 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:19:29 | WTKI AM | Fred Holland | 41 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:20:32 | WOKI FM | Hallerin Hilton Hill | 42 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:21:20 | WSMN AM | Jeff Santos | 27 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:22:17 | KJCK AM | KJCK First News | 42 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:23:08 | KDUZ AM | Local Morning Show | 26 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:24:38 | KFGO AM | Local Morning Show | 48 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:26:06 | KTRH AM | Local News | 44 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:27:45 | WFTL AM | Local News | 25 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:29:34 | KFYR AM | Local Talk | 44 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:31:01 | KLXX AM | Local Talk | 30 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:33:00 | WSAU AM | Local Talk | 70 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:33:36 | WTAQ AM | Local Talk | 26 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:36:51 | KWBC AM | Lynn Wooley | 22 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:38:37 | KWBC AM | Lynn Wooley | 93 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:39:19 | WVON AM\/HD | Matt & Perri | 27 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:40:08 | WNTK FM | Money Matters | 32 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:40:56 | WTKS FM\/HD | Monsters | 41 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:41:49 | WLTT FM | Morning Beat | 44 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:42:53 | WFMN FM | Paul Gallo | 42 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:43:33 | WTRH FM | Rick & Bubba | 22 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:44:06 | WROK AM | Riley & Scot | 26 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:44:48 | WNRP AM | Rob Williams | 33 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:45:27 | WORD AM | Russ & Lisa | 25 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:46:19 | WURD AM | The WURD (Philadelphia) Mornin | 23 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:47:22 | KMOX AM\/HD | Total Information AM | 47 Seconds |\r\n| 2011-09-21 09:53:41 | KWOS AM | Warren Krech | 23 Seconds |\r\n+---------------------+------------+--------------------------------+-------------+\r\n<\/pre>\nAbout half of those tests are fairly obscure local hosts. Local hosts rarely say their own name. Even if you “cheat a little” and look at the station web site and see if the name is still there, that takes minutes, not 20 seconds. My own rule of thumb is for a show like that, I wait about five minutes for the show to ID itself or at least someone on the show to say the host’s first name “Well, Bill, I was talking to the mayor…”….<\/p>\n
A show like “Duke and the Doctor”, I would recognize in 20 seconds, but I know the voices of pretty much everyone in radio from doing this for 7 years.<\/p>\n
One of the unproductive things I’ve now spent time doing is writing a routine for a situation like this one is to create a one-click link that reverse all 600 items tested and force a retest.<\/p>\n
This came to my attention when I was spot checking a test and the just-tested test was done on a stream link that was obviously broken and could not possibly have been used for a test. When I wrote an email to inquire about that, the email bounced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I know I sound ungrateful at time about the issue of testing, but this recurring problem really pisses me off.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is the “testing” done by one person in one hour.\u00a0\u00a0 By the time I noticed them, they had done … Continue reading