That time 89.3 KOHL skipped for a week

Been meaning to post something about this and here we are a week later.

On 10 February at approximately 2:15 I put the radio on and tuned it to 89.3 KOHL Ohlone College in Fremont. Figure they need listeners, right? Some boring piano indie emo stuff is playing, we hope you enjoy your stay, and he misses the end of the bar, restarting the riff very off-time. I listen again just to be sure. Sure as hell, there’s about a 45-second play with a regular skip, both beginning and end. This happens, for example 88.1 KZSC has apologized profusely for CD skips over the years.

I call the school what, seven times, call the radio station. Nothing. I look it up today and Ohlone’s website says “REMINDER: Any in-person face-to-face instruction scheduled for the Spring 2022 semester will meet on Zoom for the first 3 weeks (through Feb. 13, 2022). We are making this temporary modification to the Spring 2022 semester due to the increase in COVID-19 exposures in the region as a result of the Omicron variant.“

I turn the radio on just now and it’s still skipping. It can’t have just started that Thursday. I couldn’t say now when was the last time I put the station on.

So the mystery is: has this thing been skipping since December? Aren’t radio stations supposed to take decisions as to whether and how to keep broadcasting with the adjustments for coronavirus at “a full time FM broadcast facility”?

Why hasn’t someone come checked on it??? This is yer radio station’s reputation here! You guys are killing me!!

What’s really funny is if you hit “access webcam,” you see the dead ass desk, but there is a random (proven by turning it on several times) soundtrack that does not match broadcast.

If you reading this feel inclined, contact them so maybe they’ll realize the issue. Reminds me of that scene in Spun where he handcuffs her to the bed and puts “her favorite” loud music on so no one will hear her screaming and the CD immediately starts a half-second skip.

Should we do a little contest?? The last reader to tell me that the thing is still skipping before they fix it gets some Eugenio Negro obscene art swag!

UPDATE 18 February: They fixed it. Ass-punk flowing as normal.

UPDATE 3 March: The SOB is skipping again, this time it seems like a whole song, which according to the internet is The Strokes. At least since 6:40 this morning and now it’s 3:40pm. Time to get a new studio CD player?