It’s the sort of nightmare every radio presenter has…you’re on air from a brand new studio, go into your first break, hit the CD play button and nothing happens. So you ad lib as you try two other CD players. Still nothing. So you try to play music or in fact anything from the computer playout system. Nothing. The equipment and the board are completely dead. The only thing that works is your microphone.

What can you do? Only one thing…ad lib.

And that’s what Tom Cunningham did during his all-Bruce Springsteen show on WCHR – 107 The Hawk in New Jersey. In fact he had to ad lib for 35 minutes before help arrived. Turned out the new studio needed a reboot to get back to normal which is not easy to do while you’re live with an open mic.

The station reports that listeners were enthralled by Tom’s extensive Springsteen knowledge and story-telling ability as he shared info regarding upcoming Bruce events and one of his favorite Bruce stories.

The Bruce Bunch can be heard (and hopefully will go much more smoothly next week), online Sunday mornings from 9-11 (ET).