June 5, 2024 • 7 mins
We had an issue that took down several New York stations, we tell you everything that happened behind the scenes!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know, we started our show two hours ago explaining
something that happened to us yesterday and last night. At
the very end of our show, we had already sort
of signed off and we were doing our podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
We were recording that, and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Then everything just cut off, like the board, all our
microphones go through, and our headphones and everything.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
It was so funny. I mean, it was funny.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well if you saw the video, and I'll explaining that
in a second, because you have to see the video.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Danielle, you're right.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And Scotty b who's you know, he's running Z one hundred,
our station here. It started with him. He's like, I
don't know what's going on. And it was panic time, right,
I mean, what was that?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Like? What did you experience when everything turned off?
Speaker 5 (00:48):
It's a feeling of helplessness. There's absolutely nothing that you
can do. Because I was talking to you guys, and
I realized that everything here just stopped. So if people
were listening at home or wherever they're listening, they heard nothing,
and there was nothing I could do about it. I
was pressing every button that there was here, and nothing happened.
So this is the worst nightmare in radio? Is that
that was?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Imagine you're driving your car down the highway and you're
going eighty miles an hour, and then all of a sudden,
nothing works. You cannot break, you can't stop the car,
you can't make it go faster, you can't turn left,
you can't turn right. You can't even turn on the
radio to enjoy your favorite music. Yeah, no air conditioning, No,
nothing works.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I think nothing works.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I wouldn't have thought it was that funny if I
knew how serious it was going to turn into like
I thought, like I thought I was Aglect's first. I
thought it was Scotty's fault, of course, and then we
found that it was really serious during the day and
we were.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Like, oh damn, we all have no dares about that.
All that you do? Oh y yeah, yeah yeah. If
you're in radio, you have the dead air nightmare.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And then you see in this video scary, yeah, scary
racing for impact.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I was trying to help Scotty with his problem, and
right there Live and Cam has caught it.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I was trying to fix it. I'm like, oh my god,
we're not getting any volume. The meters aren't moving like.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
We're off the air, and for once, you know, we're
having awful technical issues and we can't blame Gandhi.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
No, I didn't start the fire. For a second, I
looked around. I was like, what did I do?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, Usually she spills things down the holes and then
fires erupted and then it didn't happen. It didn't, But anyway,
it was a major thing. Not only us, but all
five five stations, all five radio stations here at iHeart
in New York City on fifty fifth Street.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
They all went dead, every one of them.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
And I was very thankful that Scary was behind the
board and not running down the hallway when this happened,
because you know what he does. He's starts slamming people
into walls to get past you because.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Of the margin shase exactly. He's running to some room
that doesn't exist. We don't know where he's going.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
But anyway, anyway, so if you watch the video, if
you're following at Elvis Duran's show on Instagram, there's just
a you got that footage, right, Gandhi?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Was that you that got that?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
No?
Speaker 7 (02:59):
Was it? DM?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
I asked Deanna if she could pull the footage because
everyone reacted so differently to the emergency. You know, Scary
was about to take a flight. Scotty was cursing, Danielle
was laughing. Nate was just sitting there like everybody calm.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So calm. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Just started recording with Nate. There's a thin line between
calm and just brain. Dawn don't know what's going on.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I don't think he's.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Like, what's the corner of my eye, Jeff racing around
the corner and my engineer Jeff.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
If engineer Jeff is racing, what else can I do?
Because I would have called him?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Okay, I'm all right, all right, hold on, we have
the audio. Can we play it? Because I mean, there's
some f words. Okay, this is just a little synopsis.
Looks the craziness here is.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
It's one thing if you pick your own fight, but
then for somebody to be expected to come to your
defense when you're in the wrong.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Can you turn off Scotti's mike? What's going on? We
got problem? We got problems, Houston. This is behind the
scenes right here, This is real.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Well, no, it's not behind the scenes. It's right here
in the front with us. Can you turn off Scottie's
Oh my dear god, we're doing off the place. Turn
off your microphone.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
He said, he can't turn it off, and we were trying.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We tried to.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, unplugged the micro right
now now, I'm all we're still recording, though we still
can't hear you recording.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yes, we're still rolling, I say, maybe I'm live on
one hundred right now. Hello. Hello. Okay, you guys can
hear me right RaSE?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Okay, Well I cannot hear you, so I'm ouldn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Let's just wrap it, okay, guys. Oh what a great podcast. Everyone.
You gotta go part two tomorrow. Bye week. So, and
that's just a part of it. You can actually watch.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You could watch it if you go to watch the
fifteen minute morning show podcast. It's us doing a podcast
and it morphs into sheer terror. Anyway, So that's what
happened yesterday. But it went on and on all day,
and so our engineering team, along with the people who
are working for the company that's responsible for what happened,
they all worked around the clock, into the night and
(05:27):
into the morning to try to get our stations back
up and this morning. I sent a text to engineer
Josh and he said, yeah, you're gonna be okay, You're
back on. But it was it was an awful It's
all computers, right, It's computers that had too much to
do and not enough space to do. It is basically
the easiest way to describe it.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
It's exactly right, Elvis. It's kind of like your phone
if you have all these applications running and then one
of them starts running slow, and then another one starts
running slow. That's exactly what was happening, right.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
It turned everything off.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It was mass chaos, but of course we're used to
mass chaos here, so we just kind of Daniel you
can hear her laughing for the whole thing. Yeah, and uh, anyway,
but so we didn't know if we're going to come
back on today, and it's it was a major issue
because keep in mind, you know, we have five stations
on and they're generating revenue for a corporation, and so
when that gets turned off, that's a you know, that's
(06:22):
like like poking a hole in the gas tank and
all the fuel just flows out. So anyway, so thanks
to our heroes, of course, uh, the engineering team, Josh, you, Josh,
Josh and Jeff and Rachel and George and uh anyone
and everyone who had anything to do with getting us
(06:43):
back on and they had to sleep in bad hotels.
I'm like, dude, they should put you up at the
Saint Regis for doing this. But uh, anyway, it's without them,
and this is not the first time they've hopped on
a horse and rode into battle for us, and we
we appreciate them so much. Would be the last, without measure,
I know, no, there'll be more anyway, So there's that.
(07:06):
So yeah, it was just a it was a crazy
day and we got we got to go home and
sleep in our beds. They stayed, they stayed, and they
took care of everything.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
And I think we got the least chaotic of the
chaos because I heard that there were other studios where
people were speaking off the air, just talking to each
other and everything went out over the air. Yeah, that was.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Horrible, right live on the air. He's like, fu, Duran,
I do I do? Anyway, We're back. We're back, but
you know, again, to our heroes. We appreciate them so much.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Wow,
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know, we started our show two hours ago explaining
something that happened to us yesterday and last night. At
the very end of our show, we had already sort
of signed off and we were doing our podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
We were recording that, and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Then everything just cut off, like the board, all our
microphones go through, and our headphones and everything.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
It was so funny. I mean, it was funny.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well if you saw the video, and I'll explaining that
in a second, because you have to see the video.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Danielle, you're right.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And Scotty b who's you know, he's running Z one hundred,
our station here. It started with him. He's like, I
don't know what's going on. And it was panic time, right,
I mean, what was that?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Like? What did you experience when everything turned off?
Speaker 5 (00:48):
It's a feeling of helplessness. There's absolutely nothing that you
can do. Because I was talking to you guys, and
I realized that everything here just stopped. So if people
were listening at home or wherever they're listening, they heard nothing,
and there was nothing I could do about it. I
was pressing every button that there was here, and nothing happened.
So this is the worst nightmare in radio? Is that
that was?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Imagine you're driving your car down the highway and you're
going eighty miles an hour, and then all of a sudden,
nothing works. You cannot break, you can't stop the car,
you can't make it go faster, you can't turn left,
you can't turn right. You can't even turn on the
radio to enjoy your favorite music. Yeah, no air conditioning, No,
nothing works.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I think nothing works.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I wouldn't have thought it was that funny if I
knew how serious it was going to turn into like
I thought, like I thought I was Aglect's first. I
thought it was Scotty's fault, of course, and then we
found that it was really serious during the day and
we were.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Like, oh damn, we all have no dares about that.
All that you do? Oh y yeah, yeah yeah. If
you're in radio, you have the dead air nightmare.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And then you see in this video scary, yeah, scary
racing for impact.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I was trying to help Scotty with his problem, and
right there Live and Cam has caught it.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I was trying to fix it. I'm like, oh my god,
we're not getting any volume. The meters aren't moving like.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
We're off the air, and for once, you know, we're
having awful technical issues and we can't blame Gandhi.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
No, I didn't start the fire. For a second, I
looked around. I was like, what did I do?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, Usually she spills things down the holes and then
fires erupted and then it didn't happen. It didn't, But anyway,
it was a major thing. Not only us, but all
five five stations, all five radio stations here at iHeart
in New York City on fifty fifth Street.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
They all went dead, every one of them.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
And I was very thankful that Scary was behind the
board and not running down the hallway when this happened,
because you know what he does. He's starts slamming people
into walls to get past you because.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Of the margin shase exactly. He's running to some room
that doesn't exist. We don't know where he's going.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
But anyway, anyway, so if you watch the video, if
you're following at Elvis Duran's show on Instagram, there's just
a you got that footage, right, Gandhi?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Was that you that got that?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
No?
Speaker 7 (02:59):
Was it? DM?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
I asked Deanna if she could pull the footage because
everyone reacted so differently to the emergency. You know, Scary
was about to take a flight. Scotty was cursing, Danielle
was laughing. Nate was just sitting there like everybody calm.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So calm. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Just started recording with Nate. There's a thin line between
calm and just brain. Dawn don't know what's going on.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I don't think he's.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Like, what's the corner of my eye, Jeff racing around
the corner and my engineer Jeff.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
If engineer Jeff is racing, what else can I do?
Because I would have called him?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Okay, I'm all right, all right, hold on, we have
the audio. Can we play it? Because I mean, there's
some f words. Okay, this is just a little synopsis.
Looks the craziness here is.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
It's one thing if you pick your own fight, but
then for somebody to be expected to come to your
defense when you're in the wrong.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Can you turn off Scotti's mike? What's going on? We
got problem? We got problems, Houston. This is behind the
scenes right here, This is real.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Well, no, it's not behind the scenes. It's right here
in the front with us. Can you turn off Scottie's
Oh my dear god, we're doing off the place. Turn
off your microphone.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
He said, he can't turn it off, and we were trying.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We tried to.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, unplugged the micro right
now now, I'm all we're still recording, though we still
can't hear you recording.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yes, we're still rolling, I say, maybe I'm live on
one hundred right now. Hello. Hello. Okay, you guys can
hear me right RaSE?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Okay, Well I cannot hear you, so I'm ouldn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Let's just wrap it, okay, guys. Oh what a great podcast. Everyone.
You gotta go part two tomorrow. Bye week. So, and
that's just a part of it. You can actually watch.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You could watch it if you go to watch the
fifteen minute morning show podcast. It's us doing a podcast
and it morphs into sheer terror. Anyway, So that's what
happened yesterday. But it went on and on all day,
and so our engineering team, along with the people who
are working for the company that's responsible for what happened,
they all worked around the clock, into the night and
(05:27):
into the morning to try to get our stations back
up and this morning. I sent a text to engineer
Josh and he said, yeah, you're gonna be okay, You're
back on. But it was it was an awful It's
all computers, right, It's computers that had too much to
do and not enough space to do. It is basically
the easiest way to describe it.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
It's exactly right, Elvis. It's kind of like your phone
if you have all these applications running and then one
of them starts running slow, and then another one starts
running slow. That's exactly what was happening, right.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
It turned everything off.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It was mass chaos, but of course we're used to
mass chaos here, so we just kind of Daniel you
can hear her laughing for the whole thing. Yeah, and uh, anyway,
but so we didn't know if we're going to come
back on today, and it's it was a major issue
because keep in mind, you know, we have five stations
on and they're generating revenue for a corporation, and so
when that gets turned off, that's a you know, that's
(06:22):
like like poking a hole in the gas tank and
all the fuel just flows out. So anyway, so thanks
to our heroes, of course, uh, the engineering team, Josh, you, Josh,
Josh and Jeff and Rachel and George and uh anyone
and everyone who had anything to do with getting us
(06:43):
back on and they had to sleep in bad hotels.
I'm like, dude, they should put you up at the
Saint Regis for doing this. But uh, anyway, it's without them,
and this is not the first time they've hopped on
a horse and rode into battle for us, and we
we appreciate them so much. Would be the last, without measure,
I know, no, there'll be more anyway, So there's that.
(07:06):
So yeah, it was just a it was a crazy
day and we got we got to go home and
sleep in our beds. They stayed, they stayed, and they
took care of everything.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
And I think we got the least chaotic of the
chaos because I heard that there were other studios where
people were speaking off the air, just talking to each
other and everything went out over the air. Yeah, that was.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Horrible, right live on the air. He's like, fu, Duran,
I do I do? Anyway, We're back. We're back, but
you know, again, to our heroes. We appreciate them so much.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Wow,
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