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4 unusual facts about Dead Air


Dead Air

Some of these political ideas are developed further in Raw Spirit.

Dead air

One significant case of dead air during a Super Bowl was during Super Bowl XLV in 2011, when WCHK-FM, a station in the Green Bay, Wisconsin area, announced it would counterprogram the game with dead air, since the hometown Packers were in the game.

Dead Air

While Banks' story-telling skills were acknowledged, some felt that this was less satisfying, in contrast to Look to Windward, his previous book (under the Iain M Banks guise).

Ken Nott resembles a happier version of Cameron Colley, the main character in Banks' earlier novel Complicity.


Stephen Polk

Providence also developed and produced IN A DARK PLACE, STICKY FNGERS, DR. RAGE with Andrew Divoff, PIRATE CAMP with Corbin Bernsen, and Dead Air with Bill Moseley.


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Rémi Ochlik

The radio host Paddy O'Connell was so moved by her poem that he could not continue to broadcast, and Radio 4 had around 12 seconds of dead air.

WKAF

After weeks of dead air and a week-long stunt of a loop of Tone Lōc's "Wild Thing", the station was relaunched on December 6, 1999 as WBOT, "Hot 97.7", targeting the Greater Boston area with a Mainstream Urban format.

WQSR

After playing songs at CBS Radio's Baltimore studios such as "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men, R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" and "Goodbye Stranger" by Supertramp at roughly 11:57PM, the station went to dead air as Clear Channel officially took control over the station.