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A mistake some jocks make...

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

..... and many more worry about I think.

I just made a mistake I think a fair amount of us make but many more worry about.

I was live on KSKO, coming out of a song after TOH News and said "Thats Prince's 1999 right here on Hits 106... (sudden deer in the headlights pause realizing what I'd said.. some laughing)...." and then I explain what was going on in my brain.

I've also done afternoons on KLMI 106.1 Laramie, WY for 7 years and KSKO occasionally plays some of the same music KLMI does and today.. my mind went to Hits 106 on this song! I told my listeners, "I do an evening show for another radio station and my minds got confused there because we also play that Prince tune"
 
I remember my first day at a little station WTTF in Tiffin. I ID " This is WFOB AM and FM Fostoria Ohio with fulltime Bowling Green Studios" their competitor where I had worked previously.
 
Spreads out to other careers, too! šŸ˜

Forty years ago I had a job delivering home food plans to customers throughout WNY. After having quite a few customers leave, the owner decided to establish 'in house' competition, with a dummy company offering the same basic service to disgruntled ex customers. Take one truck in the fleet, remove all identification off the box, and you're now harvesting your old customer base. Until the driver inadvertently identifies themself as the original company when delivering the order. šŸ˜³
The driver was me, who had to 'song and dance' my way with an explanation that a number of staffers of the original company had left to work at this new venture. I was very glad when I left that company. Both the original, and the faux successor company. šŸ˜
 
Easily Amused said:
Spreads out to other careers, too! šŸ˜

Forty years ago I had a job delivering home food plans to customers throughout WNY. After having quite a few customers leave, the owner decided to establish 'in house' competition, with a dummy company offering the same basic service to disgruntled ex customers. Take one truck in the fleet, remove all identification off the box, and you're now harvesting your old customer base. Until the driver inadvertently identifies themself as the original company when delivering the order. šŸ˜³
The driver was me, who had to 'song and dance' my way with an explanation that a number of staffers of the original company had left to work at this new venture. I was very glad when I left that company. Both the original, and the faux successor company. šŸ˜
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LOL, that reminds me of Tom Green's "Undercutters Pizza" scheme:
 
radiofan2023 said:
LOL, that reminds me of Tom Green's "Undercutters Pizza" scheme:
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Us drivers didn't have to grovel how Tommy boy did, orders were finalized at the time of sale between salespeople and customers, at sit down appointments in customers' homes. There was the mix of feckless, high pressure, and unctuous salespeople. Many had used car sales in their backgrounds. šŸ¤ØšŸ˜
 
It could be a lot worse, SRG. I first came aboard at my current directly after many years with a local icon of a broadcaster. Imagine giving a live TOH ID read and following it up with "a service of Waller Media", except the station wasn't owned, nor ever has been owned, by the Waller family. Got the calls and COL right, but should've pumped the brakes right there.

Thank God for an understanding owner who quickly realized that old habits die hard. After that, I had the station's slogan, brand, and identification jotted down and right in front of my face until it had become as repetitive and natural rolling off of my tongue as the previous stations had been.
 
kevtronics said:
This is why you print out the station's ID and slogan and put it right in front of your face.
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I needed to make some extra cash a thousand years ago, or so it seems. I did morning dive at one place, afternoon drive up the road a couple of counties and weekends at another place. I kept who I was and where I was on an index card in front of me so I would not give a wrong name, call letters or community. I worked out fine. It was a very long summer and I was pleased to rid myself of two of the stations when I reached my $$$ goal.
 
For me that kind of thing always seemed to happen after Iā€™d been at the new station for maybe a month or more. My thinking was that it typically happened at a point where Iā€™d grown comfortable, more relaxed in the new surroundings. But my favorite example wasnā€™t me. Instead it was a veteran newscaster with 30 years in the market. Doing that typical ā€œW??? news time is 6:34ā€ commercial break cue to the board op, rather than the calls for his music intensive FM current employer, he gave the calls to an old school full service AM station that no longer existed and that heā€™d been gone from for almost twenty years.
 
The few times it happened to me it was never anywhere new. And I always remember it being the correct station, but a positioner or slogan we had long given up that just came back out with muscle memory.
 
A mis-ID is certainly explainable, with a nice come-back, as described.

Muttering "S***" under you breath after turning off the wrong turntable, and hearing the word come back through your headphones can be a life-changing experience that, if managed well, might never happen twice. šŸ«¢ Being pointedly complimented on your work by the station manager the next morning, definitely enhances the lesson.
 
Happened to me at literally every station where I worked...like Ma "Contrarian" Gee above, usually about six weeks in, when I'd relaxed enough to no longer be on guard for it.

When I was a jock, it wasn't always the call letters---sometimes it'd be the request line number for the old station.

The oddest one was at KFBK here in Sacramento. I'd been there for years and we changed positioners to add "Newsradio" to the calls. Well, the last time that word had come out of my mouth was about 12 years earlier, so sure as hell....

"Newsradio 620 KTAR------(long pause)----is a radio station in Phoenix, Arizona. But that's not important right now. THIS is Newsradio KFBK..I'm Mike Hagerty...."
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
..... and many more worry about I think.

I just made a mistake I think a fair amount of us make but many more worry about.

I was live on KSKO, coming out of a song after TOH News and said "Thats Prince's 1999 right here on Hits 106... (sudden deer in the headlights pause realizing what I'd said.. some laughing)...." and then I explain what was going on in my brain.

I've also done afternoons on KLMI 106.1 Laramie, WY for 7 years and KSKO occasionally plays some of the same music KLMI does and today.. my mind went to Hits 106 on this song! I told my listeners, "I do an evening show for another radio station and my minds got confused there because we also play that Prince tune"
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Why bring more attention to the mistake, and if you were tracking, why didn't you redo the break?
 
radiofan2023 said:
I know someone who used to work with Rick Dees at KIIS and he told me that Rick said to leave mistakes in, so it sounds live.
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I know PDs who prefer it, just to give it a "human" touch. If you totally crash and burn, re-cut, but if it's something that you can turn into a bit of humor and not take too long doing it, it's a bonus.

Other PDs want it perfect.
 
gr8oldies said:
Why bring more attention to the mistake, and if you were tracking, why didn't you redo the break?
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Im live on KSKO, tracked on KLMI.

I was on KSKO

I even leave in mistakes on KLMI when VT.. one time when i posted about a good goof up on FB, the boss at KLMI even said "I cant wait to hear this one"

I've back or front sold the wrong song, laughed, correct myself...... almost given out my own cell phone number a few times..... or had to mention a date/time... paused briefly cuse i had a brain freeze..... explain myself, laugh and move on.
 
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