Radio Silence
There's nothing we radio bods hate more than dead air. Yes silence may well be golden, but when it happens unexpectedly then time seems to stretch. Seconds feel like minutes and minutes like hours.
Today our Inverness studios were hit by the kind of combination of problems that engineers liken to your chances of winning the lottery. Well, check your numbers folks because they all happened this morning. Power failures, computer failures, phone lines dead.
It wiped out most of the morning news bulletins and might also have been the cause of weird transmission gaps during other programmes. I say 'might' because these things have to be investigated and that takes time. In any case these problems all stem from the refurbishment work happening in the Inverness building and that's finally coming to an end.
Although, looking at the latest photograph, that seems a wee bit hard to believe.
