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Dumb Callers

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I was listening to The Debbie Nigro show on TalkRadio 990 WXCT and Debbie asked the caller where she was from and what station she was listenting to the show on. The caller said "I'm from Meriden, CT. And I'm listening to some AM station. Um 1170 AM."

Wrong. She's from Meriden and like me she'd be listening on TalkRadio 990. The only 1170 AM in Connecticut is located in Vernon and is a Family Radio O&O station.

How can someone not know what station they're listening to?
 
> How can someone not know what station they're listening to?
>
I've always thought it would be fun to have this happen:
Host: You win 2 tickets from Jack to see Jimmy Buffet in the cold January 22. What station makes you a winner?
Me: The Track 107.9

(Both stations would be in Indianpolis, FYI)

I've been listening to some syndicated shows that do call-ins, and the host just knows what station you're listening to.

Another thing I've noticed is that AM/talk stations often don't have great imaging, only mentioning calls or frequency in the Legal ID and top/bottom of hour news. So you might usually listen to 790 and forget you changed stations to 1100.
 
Dumb Callers and Jocks which also forget

You apparently never heard the caller who was on Power 104 in Hartford who when asked what station hooks them up in Hartford, they blurted out "Hot 937". The jock proceded with a WHAT?! and the caller then corrected himself. It was pretty funny.

The other funny one was on Kiss 957 in Hartford when the night jock who arrived from Hot 1079 in Syracuse went into a song with the line "... right here on Hot 1079". He forgot he was 300 miles east.
 
> How can someone not know what station they're listening to?

People constantly call music stations to make requests when their radio is actually tuned to a different station. They just scrawled a request line number down when they were listening to some station at one time, and that's the number they call from then on, no matter what station they're actually listening to.

Sometimes you can even hear the other station playing on a radio in the background when they call, requesting something out of format for the station they're calling.

What really gets me is the callers who expect that we can transfer them to the station that they actually wanted to call.
 
Jocks which also forget

> The other funny one was on Kiss 957 in Hartford when the
> night jock who arrived from Hot 1079 in Syracuse went into a
> song with the line "... right here on Hot 1079". He forgot
> he was 300 miles east.

In 1985, I was doing a very weird shift at KDOL-AM/KTPI-FM in the Antelope Valley region of California; middays on the FM ("Stereo Country KT-103") followed immediately by afternoon drive on the AM ("All Hit 1340 KDOL"). Every once in a while, a song would crossover and be on both stations' playlists, and if I wasn't 100% focused I would occasionally use the wrong image line.<P ID="signature">______________


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Dumb Callers -- or maybe calling CC?

> What really gets me is the callers who expect that we can
> transfer them to the station that they actually wanted to
> call.

Maybe that's the real motivation for consolidation.

After all, in Miami, CC has seven stations (at least)
in the same building.

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<font color='green'>Happy Kwanzaa</font>, <font color='purple'>Happy Saturnalia</font>, <font color='gold'>and HAPPY NEW YEAR!</font>!!!</A></marquee><P ID="signature">______________

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Re: Jocks which also forget

> In 1985, I was doing a very weird shift at KDOL-AM/KTPI-FM
> in the Antelope Valley region of California; middays on the
> FM ("Stereo Country KT-103") followed immediately by
> afternoon drive on the AM ("All Hit 1340 KDOL"). Every once
> in a while, a song would crossover and be on both stations'
> playlists, and if I wasn't 100% focused I would occasionally
> use the wrong image line.

I've done this wihile voice tracking. If I have to voice track more than one station in one day I'll occasionally slip. Usually I'll catch my self and re du the vice cut but there is always that time once in a while you don't catch it until yo hear it air. The worst is when I gave the country station slogan WALLS 102 on the top forty station. Yes, it was a crossover song by Faith Hill. Her song from the Pear Harbor sound track. I did not catch it until I heard it air.
>
 
What's Really Dumb

It happens all the time and not just to music stations. I worked in a market with two talk stations both doing advice shows on the weekends (home repair, gardening, finances, car repair, etc). More times than I could count, people called us with the questions about the topic of the other station's program (the same thing happened to them).

The scary part is how much this happens when people are filling out Arbitron diaries. No wonder the numbers are so screwy.

We pay attention to what's on the radio. Most people don't. For most people, radio is just background noise.

PPM anyone?


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> How can someone not know what station they're listening to?
>
 
Re: Jocks which also forget

I don't know if this counts or not, but one time I was listening to Talk Radio 990 (the station I mentioned in my original post) and about a month or two after they changed their slogan from NOTTY 99 to 990 The X the GM who was the morning show host said The All New Notty 99 instead of The All New 990 The X. The same GM is still there. And is on 9AM-10AM M-F. So far I haven't heard any slip-ups.
 
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