Shreveport Radio: No Joking.. Server Crash Not Funny For Six Stations

All six of Townsquare Media's Shreveport radio stations found themselves scrambling for programming Monday morning when the computer operating system for all of those stations crashed, according to the News/Talk KEEL website.

As of ten o'clock Monday morning, the source of the trouble, which also affected Townsquare stations in other markets, had not been identified.

Morning shows on each of the six stations, N/T  KEEL 710 AM / 101.7 FM, KSKS KISS Country 93.7,  A/C KVKI 96.5 FM, HotAC KRUF K94-5, Classic Country KTUX Highway 98-9 and Sports KWKH 1130 The Tiger, were interrupted as the system went offline and reverted to default settings.

On 101.7 / 710 KEEL, Robert J Wright and Erin McCarty were able to continue with their news / talk format, just without commercials, bumper music, etc. Listeners were able to hear Fox News cues in the background, since the system went down during a Fox cast, and computer commands to switch off the network were eliminated.

Elsewhere in the building, Gary McCoy and Erin Bristol on KISS Country 93.7 played audio from YouTube videos, K 94-5's Chica and the Bald Guy were able to continue an abbreviated show by hacking into their station's digital "emergency" control room. KVKI and Highway were able to stay with their satellite morning shows, Kidd Kraddick and Walton and Johnson, respectively. And The Tiger's Tim Fletcher Show, finding themselves in the same boat as KEEL's Robert and Erin on KEEL, continued with their  uninterrupted sports gabfest.

Townsquare's engineers and ITs, both local and corporate, continue to work on restoring the operating system to working order.