<p dir="ltr">Interesting, thanks. None of the small commercials here in the north of Scotland does it. </p>
<p dir="ltr">There's no need to listen off air to know how you sound, though I can see it's the easiest way if your processor is at a remote transmitter. </p>
<p dir="ltr"> It occurs to me that any stations that go DAB-only certainly won't have the option of routine off air listening. I suppose that won't affect the likes of the BBC or national commercials as I doubt their presenters ever listen off air, certainly not the BBC nationals, and they didn't do so in any BBC local stations that I have been in in the past. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Alex</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 6 Jun 2016 12:57, Geoff Rogers <geoff@susyradio.com> wrote:<br type='attribution'><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br /><div><br /><div class="elided-text">On 2 June 2016 at 23:15, Two Lochs Radio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tlr@gairloch.co.uk">tlr@gairloch.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
<div><p>Does anybody routinely listen off-air in the studio? I have never come across any station that does that. It's good to monitor it of course, typically a radio in the kitchen or reception permanently playing, and it should be an option for the studio to check output, but am I alone in thinking it unusual to listen off-air as a matter of routine in the studio?<br /></p></div></blockquote><div>We do, and always have done. </div><div><br /></div><div>Until recently the commercial station I work for also did the same.</div><div><br /></div><div>It is not off putting at all provided there are no delays (we use a Band I analog link), and it does give you an idea as to how you sound on air.</div><div><br /></div><div>Geoff</div></div>
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