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Steve Warren

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Written in July 2021.

In case you missed it in the radio trade papers, here’s a link to the new report. An AM signal at 1620 on the dial in Washington D. C. began playing a loop of traffic information on the day of Obama’s inauguration, January 21, 2013. The loop broadcast continuously for the next eight years until this past March. Nobody noticed.

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Written by

Steve Warren

Steve Warren has programmed radio since 1964. He built MdB, the first music scheduler for the Mac, in 1987 and Music 1 for Windows in 1994, and is a founding partner of MusicOne.

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