Do TV and radio stop broadast after some time?

[Inferjus]

Because I can not catch any signal in my radio and it is just silent.

[Atrophus]

When the electricity goes out I guess that's more than just regional. Do not believe the propaganda of the army telling you zero casualities, the whole continent will be crawling with the buggers.

[Inferjus]

But... I just can not hear anything from radio...

[Atrophus]

My friend once heard the radioguy telling his audience that he had been bitten. Maybe you can even catch some last moaning when he starts chewing on his microphone. But well hes dead, every infrastructure breaks down at some point

[Inferjus]

...but I mean I can not catch any broadcast...

[Ghost Sonic]

I had my radio broadcast go out on the 10th day,

[KingeOrge]

Yes, after a few time the boradcasting and commercials stops in the radio and in the TV, is before the power goes off and is a bit ramdom... at the beggining some Radio stations are silent, eventually say something and then goes off forever... it depends...

[maximdz98]

Originally posted by Инфэрюс:

...but I mean I can not catch any broadcast...

Some spoilers below:

You can hear radio and TV broadcast ( in Survival mode at least) at some certain time points - like 09.00, 12.00, and 18.00 ( all new broadcast starting at this time points).There also night broadcasts (00.00 - 03.00 or something)

This secret radio station ( 107.6 fm) broadcasting only once in 06.00- 09.00 of 4 day of your survival ( there will be information - " you survived 3 days and 21 hours or some more time)
91.2 Civilian radio station broadcasting only in 09.00 and 12.00, but I heard it once at 18.00 at six(?) day.

All radio station broadcasting about 7-9 days, some turns off faster ( 89.4 Knox Hitz), some broadcasting longer ( 98 NNR).

The last message will be on Triple N TV on 13-14 day at random (?) time point.
Also, as I know there will be another messages on stations like NNR, 93.2 LBMW and Civilian radio, but in future. Maybe weeks and months later...

[cpc8472]

Before digital televion if there was no signal you'd get static on the screen and white noise sound, so TV stations going off the air would not make televisions go silent. Yes, I'm old enough to remeber having to fiddle with the fine tuning knob on TV sets with vacuum tubes inside.

[Garath]

Originally posted by cpc8472:

Before digital televion if there was no signal you'd get static on the screen and white noise sound, so TV stations going off the air would not make televisions go silent. Yes, I'm old enough to remeber having to fiddle with the fine tuning knob on TV sets with vacuum tubes inside.

Or smacking the tv to get the image to stop jumping or doing the rolling up or down, lol darn kids dont know how easy they got it, i remember only having one phone in the house and it was in the kitchen so making a date and or talking to a girl was rather public :P

[cpc8472]

Originally posted by Garath:

Originally posted by cpc8472:

Before digital televion if there was no signal you'd get static on the screen and white noise sound, so TV stations going off the air would not make televisions go silent. Yes, I'm old enough to remeber having to fiddle with the fine tuning knob on TV sets with vacuum tubes inside.

Or smacking the tv to get the image to stop jumping or doing the rolling up or down, lol darn kids dont know how easy they got it, i remember only having one phone in the house and it was in the kitchen so making a date and or talking to a girl was rather public :P

When our local fire station got an emergency dispatch (like on the show Emergency) the signal would cause weird audio distortions on the UHF stations. It was quite annoying.

[LyraLux]

A bit late to this discussion I know, but it would be cool if the civilian radio continued to broadcast to give the illusion of other survivors out there. Just people relaying information about potential bootable areas or survivor-to-survivor drama.

This could be workshopped well when NPCs are added back in officially.

[Zhikura Kishard]

I know this discussion is rather old, but to avoid some confusion with the answers, it's worth noting that some radio stations (specifically, the Automated Emergency Broadcast) are not set to any particular station. They can differ between your saves.

If you are unable to find a particular station, you can manually tune through each of them by editing a preset station, changing it, then telling it to tune in. It's tedious, and it can take 15 to 30 minutes to get through all of them.

As they mentioned, broadcast times vary between stations, and some stop broadcasting after a certain time. This alludes to the collapse of society, in a way representing that there is no one left to broadcast anymore.