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Re: Shortest stint at a radio station and how many stations have you worked?
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The shortest job I had in radio was at !@#$ (name changed to protect the guilty) in a small town in GA. My parents were in poor health (better now) in 1995 so I decided get with in an hour or two of their home in Blue Ridge GA. I sent a tape and three days latter the station owner called. I came down next Saturday and she offered me a job. She wanted evenings and sales. I wasn’t too happy about the money, but I have sold in the past and did not starve. During the interview she called someone and said she would call back. I said I would take the job and asked for a rate card and list of sponsors so I could drive around the town. I had never been in that town and wanted see what I was getting into. She said she didn’t have a list of sponsors. I do not think it would have been a long list. I said I would call her Monday to work out details right after my shift. When I called Monday morning she said she had hired the person she called during my interview! I was fired before I started. I am glad I did not give up job in the Louisville market.
The shortest shift change was out the KWKR. I was doing mid days on KIUL the sister station. KWKR was semi-automated satellite. KIUL had CBS News at the time. At the start of a sun fade on KWKR’s satellite feed, I ran across the lobby during the 6 minute CBS News caught the last song off the satellite, ID’ed, started a carted 4 minute song. Then I ran across the lobby, back to KIUL started live local news (KIUL was unique in having two full time local newsmen and sports guy in a town under 70,000). Back across the lobby to KWKR play another cart, did weather and started another carted song. Back across the lobby to KIUL introduced the Sports guy. Back across the lobby and finally was able get KWKR back on satellite. That evening my neighbor congratulated me on my new show and asked me it was so short!
PS The engineer told me the carts would start each other using their one of a kind Harris Board If they had not changed it for the Satellite service
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Re: Shortest stint at a radio station and how many stations have you worked?
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Quote from: bnaivar on September 15, 2009, 10:49:51 AM
That's the problem with radio war stories. The only people that can enjoy them are other radio people.
Only a radio weenie can appreciate throwing a wire out the window of an eighteen story building to do a remote. The average bear just can't understand how "special" that is......
Has it ever been determined if there is some type of DNA damage/distortion that leds to careers in radio - or radio station ownership?
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