Depending upon one’s tastes regarding entertainment, the occasional technical glitches that have always been a regular part of the WMNF listening experience are either fairly endearing or frankly irritating. For about six months after moving into the station’s new building in February, however, the stretches of silence and lost phone connections attained a hilarious/maddening frequency, as DJs, engineers and producers scrambled to learn the new gear on the fly. These days, it sounds like most of the kinks have been worked out, but listeners are never completely surprised to dial in 88.5 and discover, well, nothing, for a few seconds or more.
This article appears in Sep 14-20, 2005.