The second article in Wired

“But they also warn that stations run on automatic pilot will occasionally have accidents.

That’s what happened at 9 a.m. on Sept. 11 when it took four hours for a cluster of automated Clear Channel stations in Harrisonburg, Virginia, to stop playing music and start broadcasting news, said John VerStandig, owner of 10 stations in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland. “They couldn’t figure out how to do anything because they had so few people in that building,” VerStandig said.”