Newstalk - dead air.

mike65

Anyone else? I'm listening via Mt Leinster.

murfie

im online and it is dead. pity i love the sports show!

Ol' Donie

I'm listening to it at the moment (in tallaght).

tommyboy2222

Happened yesterday when I was stuck in traffic between 7 and 8.

Came back then tho.

They made reference to it later on the show.

robo

Is that how they are getting through the recession? Not very good IMO. I was listening yesterday after the 7pm news and was raging as I wanted to hear about Robbie's transfer and what the lads had to say about it!

mike65

Strange one, as they are owned by Denis O'Briens mob I wonder if they are going to share with Today FM which is properly national - NT still has plenty of gaps.

refindsearcher

The lads explained that there was a problem with the transmitter...it cut out causing dead air....

Kensington

Not a good week for Communicorp from the sounds of things. 98FM went completely tits up this morning - audio started "skipping" just after 7pm before completely dropping out. Then the next half hour was 15 seconds of backup audio followed by 15 seconds of interference noise before cutting back to 15 seconds more of backup audio and another 15 seconds of interference over and over.

MaltEagle

98 had dead air this morning for a while from around 4am until just before 7.30am, they're transmitter actually froze due to the cold weather overnight. Back to normal programming now though.

seamus

Transmitter in South Dublin was hit/affected by lightning around 7pm on Monday. Knocked them off the air, but they were having some problems yesterday.

I know it was lightning because I was sitting in my car, newstalk on, lightning flashed and at the exact same instant, Newstalk turned to dead air. It was cool, very horror movie-esque.

mcscrub

seamus wrote: »

Transmitter in South Dublin was hit/affected by lightning around 7pm on Monday. Knocked them off the air, but they were having some problems yesterday.

I know it was lightning because I was sitting in my car, newstalk on, lightning flashed and at the exact same instant, Newstalk turned to dead air. It was cool, very horror movie-esque.

I saw the exact same lightning and newstalk stopped in my car - a pity aswell as I was witing to hear the transfer news on off the ball aswell.

Kensington

MaltEagle wrote: »

98 had dead air this morning for a while from around 4am until just before 7.30am, they're transmitter actually froze due to the cold weather overnight. Back to normal programming now though.

Was it the main transmitter though? Because "98" was still showing up on the radio, along with a Stereo pilot signal as normal. The odd noises that were coming out in between breaks from the backup audio sounded more like a dodgy link to the site.

mike65

Another lightening strike?

Its back. The data stream coughed choked and died for abut 10 mins then stuttered back to life.

Stephen

I noticed dead air from Newstalk via Mt Leinster yesterday morning too.

mike65

Today FM has followed suit!

Poochie05

There's still a lot of snow on Mt Leinster - wonder does that affect their transmissions.

Fuzzy Clam

Snow may affect Newstalk as they use a satellite link.