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Another one of my questions

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Well the last question that I asked seemed to be popular and enjoyable to read, so I decided to post another. What is your most memorable moment on the radio as either an on-air personality or a listener? This is a difficult question for me to answer because I've been a radio fanatic since I can remember. So let me think on it for a while and I'll answer myself. I think that this will be a fun question since we have so many people with many different backgrounds on this board.
 
My most memorable moment in radio was when I learned that rather than use the DigiCart, I could simply store actualities in my PC and simply double-click when I'm reading the news. If this works in the 4th largest market, go figure why anyone in Markets #5 and below would waste their time navigating the DigiCart. Great question, and you're right. There should be plenty of fun responses like mine.
 
One of the more recent things that I'll always remember is what John Summers did on KLUV to celebrate the life of Hubcap Carter. I wish that I had been home that night so that I could have caught that on tape. Another thing that will always stand out is Jody Dean's tribute to Tom Landry that aired on KRLD several hours after the announcement was made that he had passed on.
 
The KVIL-KNUS wars in the mid'70's. KNUS logo was the Top Banana and there was a bill Board on Stemmons displaying that. The Billboard right in front of it had characters eating bananas appearing to peak over the edge of the billboard looking at the KNUS one. The words on it; "Look who's still behind KVIL."
 
This happened at my first radio gig in college. The midday guy had been out and had a couple beers this particular night I was on the air. He picked up a couple college-age girls and brought them back to the station. They, too, had been drinking. Midday guy is standing in the door of the control room and the two girls are standing in front of the window above the board looking in on me. I open the mic and go live, midday guy goes areound the corner and gives them a signal. The two girls raise their shirts and press their bare breasts against the window. I stammer and keep going, while out the corner of my eye I see the midday guy go running around the corner into the sales office. The girls run out and the midday guy comes back into the control room green around the gills. Apparently the girl that was closer to him didn't put on deodorant that morning. He said when she raised her arm to raise her shirt, the funk of 10,000 years hit him and he ran into the sales office and puked in the trashcan. I never saw the girls after the ran out of the station and the midday guy was my best man at my wedding.

See? Crazy stories can have happy endings.
 
I recall the KNUS - KVIL billboards well. Just north of downtown on Stemmons. That was a Ron thing. I'm sure it cost KVIL a fortune to do it, but the message was there for days until KNUS could get their billboard taken down (and still have to pay for the contracted run for the billboard)... Good times! Good times!

Anyone else remember when Mike Selden went from KLIF to KVIL in November 1973. One of the first things KVIL did was buy the billboard attached to the building across the street from KLIF. As you stood in the KLIF triangle point control room and looked to your right, almost your entire studio window view was that huge billboard only a matter of feet from the KLIF windows. It featured Selden's image and the station logo. There was only one intent for that billboard. Not to attract downtown listeners - it was to demoralize the KLIF jock on duty every time they looked up. Can you imagine doing a shift and as you stand there to do your break on KLIF all you can see in front of you is giant K-V-I-L call letters?! Don't know if it worked, but it surely couldn't have helped.
 
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