Fort Smith, AR went “Live” on my company’s software at 00:00 today and we’re still on the air. Woo-hoo, go me.

Back in the early days of our software, back when it was a minefield of “undocumented features”, it wasn’t unheard of for stations’ on-air systems to completely lock up when they hit our log and to start broadcasting “dead air.” Dead air is death in the radio industry. It’s not a Good Thing.

That never happens now that we’ve worked most of the “features” out of the software, but Go-Live mornings are still a little dicey for me. I always listen to “our” stations when I get up in the morning to make sure we’re still on the air. I’m not sure what I’d do if we weren’t — maybe just head for the airport and get the fuck out of town, I dunno.

We’re still on the air today, though. My job for the rest of the week? Babysitter.