[Scan-DC] 455.0875 MHz constantly on, Monday during the parade

[Brooks, Kurt]

This is likely the correct answer, though the number of times a producer accidentally locks their IFB button down is far more numerous than you can imagine. 

On Jan 22, 2013, at 10:17, "Ed Tobias" <edtobias at comcast.net> wrote:

> What you heard was a producer or director in a TV control room directing 
> camera shots.  Routinely, this is handled with an open headset mike 
> broadcasting on a constant RF carrier, so that all involved can hear. 
> Reporters receive something similar in their ear, known as IFB (interrupted 
> feedback).  They continuously hear the sound of what's being broadcast on 
> the air and that is interrupted, on a push-to-talk basis, by instructions 
> from their studio producer.
> 
> Ed
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Blair Thompson" <b_thom at juno.com>
> To: <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 9:24 AM
> Subject: [Scan-DC] 455.0875 MHz constantly on, Monday during the parade
> 
> 
>> I had on my Pro-67 scanner at home a little yesterday.* The person using 
>> 455.0875 MHz must have had his PTT button held down with a rubber band: "Go 
>> to Valerie Jarrett. That's it. Back up. Back up. Back up. That's good." And 
>> so on, minute after minute after minute.**
>> 
>> http://scannerman5555.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=districtofcolumbiafreqarea&action=display&thread=1721
>> 
>> says "455.0875 - ABC Television - F-1 (Assignment Desk)"
>> 
>> As seen from Alexandria, something was hovering more or less over the 
>> Capitol (i.e., the building, of course) on both Sunday and Monday nights.
>> 
>> The air band was hot once the airspace opened up. The rails were running. 
>> Shoutout to the CSX engine crew for sounding the whistle at CP Virginia 
>> about 90% of the way through the Inaugural speech. Go listen; you'll hear 
>> it.
>> 
>> * Despite its being an analog scanner, it was receiving transmissions 
>> right and left.
>> 
>> ** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett
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