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Djs quitting on the air.

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nativeatlanta

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I just read a post on the board for Boston about a female dj who quit on the air recently.
Does anyone recall/remember any dj or djs here in Atlanta ever quiting on there air?
If you moved here from another city,do you have a story of a dj quiting on the air in that city?
Where any of those quiting djs ever rehired?
 
Had he been unthawed and near an open mike, I'm certain Gary McKee would have quit z93 on the air.
 
nativeatlanta said:
I just read a post on the board for Boston about a female dj who quit on the air recently.
Does anyone recall/remember any dj or djs here in Atlanta ever quiting on there air?
If you moved here from another city,do you have a story of a dj quiting on the air in that city?
Where any of those quiting djs ever rehired?
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That was a person named Inetta "The Mood Setter" from WBLX Mobile, AL, a V103 clone.

I heard it and it was hilarious. Since she was professional and did not use any profanity, somebody probably will hire her, alone for the buzz it generated.
 
The first station I ever worked for was a little class A country FM station east of Knoxville, TN. The station was being bought by a co-channel station up in the Tri-Cities. The idea was to simulcast the Tri-Cities station on our station for a few years while the new owners made an attempt to move our station to another city. After the close, we were told to be prepared to be taken off the air at any moment and we will then hear the simulcast over the air monitor, at that point whoever is on the air can go home and not worry about coming back.

The plug was pulled up at the transmitter a few days later at around 4 in the afternoon. The guy on the air (was also the person that trained me there) decided to have a little fun once he heard the simulcast kick in. So he popped a tape in and recorded the direct board feed. At the end of the song, he went on a rant about how he quits and how stupid the new owners are, he played a song from Tool, then got back on the air and continued the rant. He included pretty much every Carlin word in both monologues.

Later that evening, he called me up and played the tape for me. I said “wow, you said all of that on the air?” He chuckled then admitted that the simulcast had already kicked in and he was just messing around. I paused for a second and asked… “that’s funny, but what about the AM?” See, we simulcasted on our little 500 watt AM station, which received the feed via a direct hookup to the FM board. I think that the AM was what most of the little old Southern Baptist ladies listened to in that town, so I am sure a few were entertained by it.

I never heard anything else about that incident.
 
i worked at a station that was bought out. they hired a CONsultant to listen to the station and make the approiate changes in airstaff. well this was at the end of the week and i had a job waiting monday if i was being let go. he wouldnt tell me. so later that night while walking down the hallway i see a schedule on his desk. i really needed to see it so i opened his door and saw i was being sent to weekends only. i told the overnight guy i was quitting because i wasnt on the schudule anyway. well..neither was he....so....he takes over and after about 30 minutes..and under the influence of a little pint of something. decided to quit live on the air. he told the station gm to come run the damn station hisself...i heard it actually. i called the gm..told him. he goes to the station takes over..and then fires me before i can actually quit for telling him he no longer had a job anyway..so yea..i know someone who quit on the air..
 
When I was working in Carrollton radio, one of my mentors at the time voice tracked his resignation. Miles Busby, who went by Miles K on Kiss 102.7 FM, did a local morning show on WLBB 1330,V-Ted afternoons on Kiss and evenings on B-92. He also worked weekends and did Sundays on B-92 and Kiss since the stations were located in the same building. It was late Decemeber of 2002 (I'd been there 4 months and had filled in for Miles a couple of times) and the PD wanted me in to make sure I knew how to do Sundays because he was going to be fired. He was the only one patient enough at the stations to show newcomers the "tricks" of the trade in radio like how to backtrack a tape (stupid I know but I didn;t know). On January 7, 2003 Miles quit "on-air" by voice tracking his resignation before being fired. His reason for quitting was the fact he had worked 6 weeks with out a day off. He also told me he worked through laringitis and couldn't get the time off to to rest. That was his breaking point. I really didn't balme him.
 
troone said:
Had he been unthawed and near an open mike, I'm certain Gary McKee would have quit z93 on the air.
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McKee was frozen? I don't get your reference.
 
Bob the Blade was one of the few holdovers for Raleigh's WRDU when they flipped from rock to country. One night toward the end of his shift he decided to give RDU a "proper sendoff" and played a Who song. I hear he's working for another station in the area, forget which.
 
I haven't heard of any such incidents in Atlanta, but we had something like that here in Raleigh: Legendary classic-rock DJ Bob the Blade, of WRDU, did so a few months ago, almost two months after WRDU flipped to country as "106.1 The Rooster" (Clear Channel strikes again!) When the flip first happened, all the old DJs, including The Blade, left then, but a few weeks later he returned to his old afternoon-drive slot on The Rooster, then abruptly quit near the end of his shift a week later, saying he could never be a country DJ. He has since joined another classic-rock station east of Raleigh.

I'm curious about one thing: Was the Boston DJ who quit on the air from a Clear Channel station? With the possible exception of the flip of soft-rocker WRSN "Sunny 93.9" to rhythmic AC as WKSL "93.9 Kiss FM" after this past Christmas, Clear Channel has made a total mess of the FM dial in both Raleigh and Greensboro last year between February when Greensboro's WGBT "94.5 The Beat" went espanol as "La Preciosa 94.5" and October when WRDU died and went country as The Rooster. And speaking of country stations, during that eight-month time frame CC completely and thoroughly murdered one in Statesville (the late 105.7 WFMX) that had heritage dating back to the late 1950s. That station is now in Greensboro as WMKS "105.7 Kiss FM" (with a format that doesn't even fit the Kiss name!), and the WFMX calls were recently snatched up by a station up in Maine.
 
Since she was professional and did not use any profanity, somebody probably will hire her, alone for the buzz it generated.
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She used profanity, just nothing that would jeapordize the license. After all, she did close with "I quit this bitch". Then she fired a sweeper into the next element.

It was very tight. ;D
 
Like many others I have heard the "I quit this bitch" sign off. It was sad to hear someone so frustrated that she flushed her career by doing that.
 
correct me if i'm wrong..the person in the last post was not in boston radio...(the I quit this bi@#tch)...i'm curious as to who you are referring to in boston...i didn't think i was that out of the loop that i wouldn't hear about this
 
I was PD and had a part timer that was pissed at me because I wouldn't hire him full time. On his last shift, he looped Kermit D Frog's "Rainbow Connection" so it would play over and over and over. I got a call at home after about 45 minutes of loop. It took 15+ minutes to get to the station and return to regular programming.

Several years later, he put me on his resume as a reference! (I declined comment).
 
I was fired on a Thursday and was asked to come in and finish my morning show the next day. Gut reaction was to tell them to stick it but thought why not? I kept quiet until the 9 o'clock hour then I started my goodbye. Never said anything about the station or Clear Channel on the air. I took a few phone calls and during my last break told everyone "God Bless" and left.

The incoming morning show lasted a couple of months before one of the co-hosts went to mid-day. The next team lasted a couple of years.

I was asked to stay on part time but declined since I figured I'd never go full time there again. I'm now at Cox and am loving it. Spanking them in the ratings is great too!

(Station was KQLL-FM, Tulsa, KOOL 106.1 - early 2000.)
 
I actually quit my first job on air. The situation was strange. The new owners (who hired all of us to begin with) made a management change, and the first thing they did was fire our news director. Quick background, this was a small market Country station. The news director was black. The incoming manager said, "The rednecks that listen to this station will never accept a black news director". We had recently done live remotes from the local Country bar, and Janice was the life of the party! Well, I lost it, and quit on the air. I saw the writing on the wall, and had already secured another job before quitting. But I thought that the listeners should know what the management thought of them. Would I do it again? No. I learned not to burn bridges, just get out of the way. Bad managers and companies tend to hang themselves and don't need my help! Janice went from our small market to Detroit. The management and owners have long since passed into nothingness. And I've had a fairly successful 23 year career since then. Yes it did make me famous, but not in a good way.
 
I quit mny first job, live on the air.... boss knew it was coming, but didn't know when. Nothing negative at all, very positive, saying thanks to everyone... he was in the car with his mother when he heard it!!!
 
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