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Found this online from ex B101 dj Rockin Joe
http://hubpages.com/hub/5-DIRTY-RADIO-STATION-SECRETS
http://hubpages.com/hub/5-DIRTY-RADIO-STATION-SECRETS
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wknd92 said:Ha! I know who "dirty sweater" and "pissy shirt" are!
Which one are you? ;-)
Skynet74 said:wknd92 said:Ha! I know who "dirty sweater" and "pissy shirt" are!
Which one are you? ;-)
None of the above....but I was one of the name makers...there was booger cookies, the troll, stinky feet (who ended up becoming a colleague as a board op...ugh!)...tons & tons of names (but that was good because it was code and people not in the loop had no idea what we were talking about). And I know that we weren't the only ones....in talking to a counterpart over at HJY/HJJ said they did the same thing
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aqualung
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With technology that list should be updated to ask if tracked jocks who host request hours read their own email requests or if a board op handles that.
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radiogurl45
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aqualung said:With technology that list should be updated to ask if tracked jocks who host request hours read their own email requests or if a board op handles that.
I don't know about request shows, but for contests this is what is sometimes done. The voicetracked jock pre-records their congratulatory call into Audition (or whatever program the station uses), with spaces/silence for the caller. Then the board operator records the winner's call, copies and pastes the caller into the jock's pre-recorded congrats file. Deletes any extra silence. That leaves one file, with two tracks. The "call" is then played on air.
"Congrats! your caller 25! [paste the caller here, space/silence for caller]... what's your name? [space for caller].. YAY! You've won passes to Joe's pizza parlor."
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AMandFM
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My experience in a top-20 market working for one of the top-5 ownership groups versus this gentlemen's experience in market number...who cares.
#1. Requests get played during request shows, even if I don't like them. Requests get played during regular hours as well, but admittedly only if there is room in the hour. I write them all down. I read all the emails.
#2. Caller 97 gets the prize, regardless of how they sound. If they sound bad we just don't put them on the air. Contests have rules, and you can find yourself sued (and out of a job) if you don't play by them.
#3. Never called a prize whore a prize whore, but apparently if you live in Little Rhodey you get an incredibly creative nickname that they will never have the wontons to tell you about. Yes they can be overzealous and greedy, but they are listeners and they deserve some respect, even if they do not give any in return.
#4. See #2. Besides, they usually negate themselves if you simply have a no-repeat-winner-within-30/60/90-days clause. "Sorry, Cletus...you won the romantic dinner for two at Applebee's twenty-nine days ago, so you cannot win the new car today."
#5. Voicetracking has done more harm to the industry than syndicated shows, but I have never voicetracked a contest.
Of course the article was one guy's experience. Mine was different. I did not work for saints, however. I've seen things that would straighten your curlies. I'll save those horror stories for another post.
#1. Requests get played during request shows, even if I don't like them. Requests get played during regular hours as well, but admittedly only if there is room in the hour. I write them all down. I read all the emails.
#2. Caller 97 gets the prize, regardless of how they sound. If they sound bad we just don't put them on the air. Contests have rules, and you can find yourself sued (and out of a job) if you don't play by them.
#3. Never called a prize whore a prize whore, but apparently if you live in Little Rhodey you get an incredibly creative nickname that they will never have the wontons to tell you about. Yes they can be overzealous and greedy, but they are listeners and they deserve some respect, even if they do not give any in return.
#4. See #2. Besides, they usually negate themselves if you simply have a no-repeat-winner-within-30/60/90-days clause. "Sorry, Cletus...you won the romantic dinner for two at Applebee's twenty-nine days ago, so you cannot win the new car today."
#5. Voicetracking has done more harm to the industry than syndicated shows, but I have never voicetracked a contest.
Of course the article was one guy's experience. Mine was different. I did not work for saints, however. I've seen things that would straighten your curlies. I'll save those horror stories for another post.
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Moonstruck
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Quote: #1. Requests get played during request shows, even if I don't like them. Requests get played during regular hours as well, but admittedly only if there is room in the hour. I write them all down. I read all the emails.
In Providence during request hours, mainly at noon, PRO-FM and B101 do break the mold and play songs not usually in rotation. Same with Lite although I don't think they'd break the mold too much. HJY plays classic rock you don't hear in any other daypart. As far as that Coast Cafe from what little I've heard either no one requests anything or they don't touch anything they wouldn't normally play anyway.
Quote: #2. Caller 97 gets the prize, regardless of how they sound. If they sound bad we just don't put them on the air. Contests have rules, and you can find yourself sued (and out of a job) if you don't play by them.
Oh yeah and don't think when it comes to bigger prizes stations make damn sure people who fit their demographic don't win. If a 75 year old enters a contest on a CHR because of the prize rather than because he or she is a listener do you really think that person will win the trip? Uh uh.
Quotes: #3. Never called a prize whore a prize whore, but apparently if you live in Little Rhodey you get an incredibly creative nickname that they will never have the wontons to tell you about. Yes they can be overzealous and greedy, but they are listeners and they deserve some respect, even if they do not give any in return.
#4. See #2. Besides, they usually negate themselves if you simply have a no-repeat-winner-within-30/60/90-days clause. "Sorry, Cletus...you won the romantic dinner for two at Applebee's twenty-nine days ago, so you cannot win the new car today."
All stations have a time rule when it comes to contests and there's nothing wrong with disqualifying someone who breaks it because it's stipulated beforehand. As far as prize whores or prize pigs they stand just as much of a chance of anyone else of having a diary so even though regulars when it comes to contests, requests, phones, remotes, etc sometimes get laughed at by stations they probably are the P1s. I really think this all boils down to the insider nature of radio and the disdain the industry really does have for its listeners regardless of the smiley face it puts on for the public. Ratings aside many really wish listeners would just go away and let the insiders play among themselves. It's really sad.
In Providence during request hours, mainly at noon, PRO-FM and B101 do break the mold and play songs not usually in rotation. Same with Lite although I don't think they'd break the mold too much. HJY plays classic rock you don't hear in any other daypart. As far as that Coast Cafe from what little I've heard either no one requests anything or they don't touch anything they wouldn't normally play anyway.
Quote: #2. Caller 97 gets the prize, regardless of how they sound. If they sound bad we just don't put them on the air. Contests have rules, and you can find yourself sued (and out of a job) if you don't play by them.
Oh yeah and don't think when it comes to bigger prizes stations make damn sure people who fit their demographic don't win. If a 75 year old enters a contest on a CHR because of the prize rather than because he or she is a listener do you really think that person will win the trip? Uh uh.
Quotes: #3. Never called a prize whore a prize whore, but apparently if you live in Little Rhodey you get an incredibly creative nickname that they will never have the wontons to tell you about. Yes they can be overzealous and greedy, but they are listeners and they deserve some respect, even if they do not give any in return.
#4. See #2. Besides, they usually negate themselves if you simply have a no-repeat-winner-within-30/60/90-days clause. "Sorry, Cletus...you won the romantic dinner for two at Applebee's twenty-nine days ago, so you cannot win the new car today."
All stations have a time rule when it comes to contests and there's nothing wrong with disqualifying someone who breaks it because it's stipulated beforehand. As far as prize whores or prize pigs they stand just as much of a chance of anyone else of having a diary so even though regulars when it comes to contests, requests, phones, remotes, etc sometimes get laughed at by stations they probably are the P1s. I really think this all boils down to the insider nature of radio and the disdain the industry really does have for its listeners regardless of the smiley face it puts on for the public. Ratings aside many really wish listeners would just go away and let the insiders play among themselves. It's really sad.
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AMandFM
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Moonstruck said:Quote: #2. Caller 97 gets the prize, regardless of how they sound. If they sound bad we just don't put them on the air. Contests have rules, and you can find yourself sued (and out of a job) if you don't play by them.
Oh yeah and don't think when it comes to bigger prizes stations make damn sure people who fit their demographic don't win. If a 75 year old enters a contest on a CHR because of the prize rather than because he or she is a listener do you really think that person will win the trip? Uh uh.
Yes, the 75 year old gets the prize. All you have to do is spin it right. She won it for her grandkids, who always listen to WCRP, Rhode Island's Hit Music Station!
Eating out recently I overheard a conversation between 2 couples at the table next to us. Both were probably in their 50s at least & I don't know what station they were talking about, but I heard the guy say "Dey don't want you to call and request anymaw. Dey wanchu to do it on da computa. I don have a computa". I wanted to tell him "Don't bother with da computa. No one's going to play Tell Laura I Love Her anyway."
AMandFM said:#3. Never called a prize whore a prize whore, but apparently if you live in Little Rhodey you get an incredibly creative nickname that they will never have the wontons to tell you about. Yes they can be overzealous and greedy, but they are listeners and they deserve some respect, even if they do not give any in return.
EVERY walk of life has behind the scenes conversations about people, whether you are at a bank getting reamed out each month by the same customers for service fees, at a pharmacy where the same people come thru and act up about co pays, even though they get the same prescriptions every 30 days, any customer interraction job I have seen the employees talk behind the scenes about repeat offenders or have friends give me similar conversations that happen at their place of employment, so the radio industry is not alone in this....
With regard to AMandFM's entry; it's refreshing to know that there are SOME of us who really DO try to get requests on regardless of computer generated playlists that are consultant driven nearly always. And yes, SOME of us will anser 97 calls to get a winner, and SOME of us treat Prize Whores (we call them prize pigs in CT, by the way) the way we would treat any other listener and yes, they do manage to disqualify themselves by virtue of contest limitations. If a listener is ineligible where I work, the computer won't allow you to enter them as a winner anyway. Point is, 5 dirty secrets IS too true but not a surpise unless you just started listening to radio this year, and no, not every personality or talent is guilty. I salute those of us who take our jobs seriously enough to not degrade the very people we are there for: the listener.
We all are, after all, at their mercy despite corporate cost cutting or whatever else you'd like to call it.
We all are, after all, at their mercy despite corporate cost cutting or whatever else you'd like to call it.
www.krud.com has covered most of this already
check out the "stupid listener questions" section it's a lol
check out the "stupid listener questions" section it's a lol
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wkrpfm
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I witnessed some of those in regards to contests when I lived up there...the market i'm currently in---cumulus takes it VERY seriously that no contests are to be fixed...we actually take the number caller we announce...The PD at the station across town just got canned for that...the guy actually put in an email to the jocks that they didn't have to take caller # "X"..and that it was to be a female, etc...someone printed up the email and it was addressed quickly
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