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. We
were recording that, and then everything just cut off, like
the board, all our microphones go through, and our headphones
(00:26):
and everything.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
It was so funny.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I mean, well, if you saw the video, and I'll
explain that in a second, because you have to see
the video. Danielle, you're right. 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 4 (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. I think nothing works.
Speaker 1 (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 a glitch. First
I thought it was Scotty's fault, of course, and then
when we found that it was really serious during the
day and we were.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Like, oh damn, we all have no dares about that.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
All that you do, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, if you're
in radio, you have the dead air nightmare. And then
you see in this video scary, yeah, scary bracing for impact. Well,
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 I'm like, we're.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Off the air, and for once, you know, we were
having awful technical issues and we can't blame Gandhi.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
No, I didn't start the fire.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
For a second, I looked around. I was like, what
did I do?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh? Yeah, Usually she spills things down the holes and
then fires erupted and then it didn't happen.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
It didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But anyway, it was a major thing.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
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 1 (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.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
He's running to some room that doesn't exist. We don't
know where he's going. But anyway, anyway, so if you
watch the video, if you're following at Elvis Durand's show
on Instagram, there's just a you got that footage, right, Gandhi?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Was that you that got that? No, it was it Deanna.
Speaker 5 (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 flight. Scotty was cursing, Danielle was laughing.
Nate was just sitting there like everybody calm.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So calm. I couldn't believe it. Just started recording with Nate.
There's a thin line between calm and just brain. Dawn
doesn't know what's going on.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
I don't think He's like, whatever'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 that.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Okay, I'm gonna 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.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Is 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 2 (03:56):
Can you turn off scottis Mike, what's going on? We
got problem? We got problems, Houston.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
This is behind the scenes right here, This is real. Well, no,
it's not behind the scenes, it's right here in the
front with us. Can you turn off Scotti's Oh my
dear god, we're doing off the place.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Turn off your microphone, he said, he can't turn it off,
and we were trying.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We tried to hold on, hold on, hold on, unplugged
the micro right now now, I'm all here.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
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
Z one hundred right now. Hello. Hello, Okay, you guys
can hear me right raise?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Okay, Well I cannot hear you, so I'm okayn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Let's just wrap it, okay, you guys. Oh what a
great podcast. Everyone. Let's see you Gotta go Part two
tomorrow by.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
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.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
It is basically the easiest way to describe it.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
It's exactly right, Elvis'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. Is mass chaos, But of course
we're used to mass chaos here, so we just kind
of dan you can hear her laughing for the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
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 like like poking a hole in
the gas tank and all the fuel just flows out.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So anyway, so thanks to our heroes, of course, Uh, the.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Engineering team, Josh, love you, Josh, Josh and Jeff and
Rachel and George and uh anyone and everyone who had
anything to do with getting us back on and they
had to sleep in bad hotels.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I'm like, dude, they should put you up at the
Saint Regis for doing this.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
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.
Nor will be the last, without measure, I know, no,
there'll be more anyway, So there's that. So yeah, it
was just a it was a crazy day and we
got we got to go home and sleep in our beds.
(07:12):
They stayed, They stayed, and they took care of everything.
Speaker 5 (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.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, that was horrible live on the air. He's like,
fu duran.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Ye I do I do.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Anyway, we're back. We're back. But you know, again, to
our heroes. We appreciate them so much. 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. We
were recording that, and then everything just cut off, like
the board, all our microphones go through, and our headphones
(00:26):
and everything.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
It was so funny.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I mean, well, if you saw the video, and I'll
explain that in a second, because you have to see
the video. Danielle, you're right. 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 4 (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. I think nothing works.
Speaker 1 (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 a glitch. First
I thought it was Scotty's fault, of course, and then
when we found that it was really serious during the
day and we were.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Like, oh damn, we all have no dares about that.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
All that you do, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, if you're
in radio, you have the dead air nightmare. And then
you see in this video scary, yeah, scary bracing for impact. Well,
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 I'm like, we're.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Off the air, and for once, you know, we were
having awful technical issues and we can't blame Gandhi.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
No, I didn't start the fire.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
For a second, I looked around. I was like, what
did I do?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh? Yeah, Usually she spills things down the holes and
then fires erupted and then it didn't happen.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
It didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But anyway, it was a major thing.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
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 1 (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.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
He's running to some room that doesn't exist. We don't
know where he's going. But anyway, anyway, so if you
watch the video, if you're following at Elvis Durand's show
on Instagram, there's just a you got that footage, right, Gandhi?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Was that you that got that? No, it was it Deanna.
Speaker 5 (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 flight. Scotty was cursing, Danielle was laughing.
Nate was just sitting there like everybody calm.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So calm. I couldn't believe it. Just started recording with Nate.
There's a thin line between calm and just brain. Dawn
doesn't know what's going on.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
I don't think He's like, whatever'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 that.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Okay, I'm gonna 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.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Is 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 2 (03:56):
Can you turn off scottis Mike, what's going on? We
got problem? We got problems, Houston.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
This is behind the scenes right here, This is real. Well, no,
it's not behind the scenes, it's right here in the
front with us. Can you turn off Scotti's Oh my
dear god, we're doing off the place.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Turn off your microphone, he said, he can't turn it off,
and we were trying.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We tried to hold on, hold on, hold on, unplugged
the micro right now now, I'm all here.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
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
Z one hundred right now. Hello. Hello, Okay, you guys
can hear me right raise?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Okay, Well I cannot hear you, so I'm okayn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Let's just wrap it, okay, you guys. Oh what a
great podcast. Everyone. Let's see you Gotta go Part two
tomorrow by.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
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.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
It is basically the easiest way to describe it.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
It's exactly right, Elvis'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. Is mass chaos, But of course
we're used to mass chaos here, so we just kind
of dan you can hear her laughing for the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
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 like like poking a hole in
the gas tank and all the fuel just flows out.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So anyway, so thanks to our heroes, of course, Uh, the.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Engineering team, Josh, love you, Josh, Josh and Jeff and
Rachel and George and uh anyone and everyone who had
anything to do with getting us back on and they
had to sleep in bad hotels.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I'm like, dude, they should put you up at the
Saint Regis for doing this.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
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.
Nor will be the last, without measure, I know, no,
there'll be more anyway, So there's that. So yeah, it
was just a it was a crazy day and we
got we got to go home and sleep in our beds.
(07:12):
They stayed, They stayed, and they took care of everything.
Speaker 5 (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.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, that was horrible live on the air. He's like,
fu duran.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Ye I do I do.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Anyway, we're back. We're back. But you know, again, to
our heroes. We appreciate them so much. Wow,
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