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F-Word All Over KJRH - could this happen on Tulsa radio?

Brings back memories of Beth Rengel all over again!

Could it happen in Tulsa radio? Of course it could. Anytime you have mouths and microphones, things you don't want could go out over the air. I heard of one instance that apparently happened at 970 where the night jock had his girlfriend in the studio and they got into a fight while the mic was on.
 
I was board opping a talk show on a local AM back in the 90's.

During a commercial break, the host (thinking he was out of earshot) started berating his co-host (also his wife) in a way that was REALLY nasty. Calling her "stupid...absent-minded...disorganized...if she'd just think ahead then the show would sound more prepared and she'd have a happy husband...etc"

If only he had known that I had him in cue.

They're now divorced, btw. I don't blame her for leaving his sorry butt.
 
Of course it could happen in Tulsa. It seems to happen everywhere else I've listened
to the radio. I heard an f-bomb on the legendary 700 WLW in Cincinnati a few weeks
ago when I was out there. So yeah, it can happen. That doesn't mean it should, but
people make mistakes. Tulsa is not that different from anywhere else I've been. Tulsa
and it's people are very conservative with radio material, but not flawless.
 
It can happen anywhere. I heard it happen in Texas, where one of the morning show's participants was sick (most likely hung over) that day, and the co-host who was at work decided to call the guy up live on the air. After several four letter words were uttered by Mr. Hangover, the co-host brightly said, "Chuck, we're on the air live." A final "Oh s***" was the parting remark - and the end of these two being employed at this station.
 
I remember decades ago a DJ at a Tulsa station (might have been the old KAY-107) was doing a live remote from a nightclub that had just opened up, and the jock asked somebody what he thought of it:

"Oh this place is F--kin' great!"

And thats not counting how many times KMOD played the uncensored version of "Who Are You".
 
billyg said:
I remember decades ago a DJ at a Tulsa station (might have been the old KAY-107) was doing a live remote from a nightclub that had just opened up, and the jock asked somebody what he thought of it:

"Oh this place is F--kin' great!"

And thats not counting how many times KMOD played the uncensored version of "Who Are You".
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Just how long has the censorship thing regarding radio lyrics been around? I also remember KMOD playing the uncensored Who, and Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner" where the lyrics weren't changed to 'funky kicks". I think that the censorship of lyrics has occurred with radio consolidation in the 1990s. The most blatant example of non-censorship was when I heard Radiohead's uncensored "Creep" on KLBJ-FM in Austin while driving through on vacation. Fortunately, my kids were asleep, or I could imagine them reprising the "you're so f--kin' special" verse at a later time.
 
stan said:
I think that the censorship of lyrics has occurred with radio consolidation in the 1990s.
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It might have had some effect, but I think the ebbs and flows of moral conservatism have always been a bigger factor on a local basis. Sometimes that local outcry spread enough that it effected change for all stations in a region and in some cases it became a nationwide movement. But you make an interesting point about the factors that may have influenced censorship. Of course it's been around a long time; for instance with a couple of '60's songs that you might hear on oldies stations. The spoken lyrics at the end of Jimmy Dean's "Big John" were changed from "...one hell of a man" to "...a big, big man." The Swingin' Medallions "Double Shot of My Baby's Love" fell victim, too. "Worst hangover I ever had" became "worst morning after I ever had." Those changes happened relatively shortly after the songs were released. Then again, there have been numerous songs that have been banned altogether throughout the history of the medium, although generally on an individual station basis, and usually following community pressure. One comes to mind in the pop music field: at one time some radio stations didn't give airplay to (or stopped playing) the Strawberries' "Go All the Way." Awfully tame stuff compared to what we've heard for the past couple of decades.
 
I would like to apologize to anyone who was offended by my use of the English letters "F" and "A". Apparently their appearance in my earlier post caused someone distress, despite the fact that the letter "F" appears in the title of the thread - and the comment was itself intended to be an amusing nudge at the subject of censorship (in that the postings of the KJRH incident were censored from YouTube, and this thread itself contained links to video of the broadcast containing the uncensored language). While the letters "F" and "A" could have referred to any words in the English language that begin with these letters (I had actually meant "Fumigate them up their stupid anthills" - being a former pest control technician, but not wanting to offend insectophiles), apparently other people replaced these in their mind with words far naughtier. It's like the old joke about the psychiatrist and the Rorschach blots - "They're your dirty pictures, Doc!"

Again, my sincere and heartfelt apologies for upsetting the antheap. :)
 
billyg said:
I remember decades ago a DJ at a Tulsa station (might have been the old KAY-107) was doing a live remote from a nightclub that had just opened up, and the jock asked somebody what he thought of it:

"Oh this place is F--kin' great!"

And thats not counting how many times KMOD played the uncensored version of "Who Are You".
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That also happened to Randy Fuller years ago when he was doing a Halloween Party remote from a country nightclub years ago. He asked some drunk fella about his costume and the guy said, "I'm da wolfman, don't "F" wit da wolfman!"
 
jd said:
stan said:
I think that the censorship of lyrics has occurred with radio consolidation in the 1990s.
Click to expand...

It might have had some effect, but I think the ebbs and flows of moral conservatism have always been a bigger factor on a local basis. Sometimes that local outcry spread enough that it effected change for all stations in a region and in some cases it became a nationwide movement. But you make an interesting point about the factors that may have influenced censorship. Of course it's been around a long time; for instance with a couple of '60's songs that you might hear on oldies stations. The spoken lyrics at the end of Jimmy Dean's "Big John" were changed from "...one hell of a man" to "...a big, big man." The Swingin' Medallions "Double Shot of My Baby's Love" fell victim, too. "Worst hangover I ever had" became "worst morning after I ever had." Those changes happened relatively shortly after the songs were released. Then again, there have been numerous songs that have been banned altogether throughout the history of the medium, although generally on an individual station basis, and usually following community pressure. One comes to mind in the pop music field: at one time some radio stations didn't give airplay to (or stopped playing) the Strawberries' "Go All the Way." Awfully tame stuff compared to what we've heard for the past couple of decades.
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Strawberries ? ;D
 
radiosaur said:
jd said:
stan said:
I think that the censorship of lyrics has occurred with radio consolidation in the 1990s.
Click to expand...

It might have had some effect, but I think the ebbs and flows of moral conservatism have always been a bigger factor on a local basis. Sometimes that local outcry spread enough that it effected change for all stations in a region and in some cases it became a nationwide movement. But you make an interesting point about the factors that may have influenced censorship. Of course it's been around a long time; for instance with a couple of '60's songs that you might hear on oldies stations. The spoken lyrics at the end of Jimmy Dean's "Big John" were changed from "...one hell of a man" to "...a big, big man." The Swingin' Medallions "Double Shot of My Baby's Love" fell victim, too. "Worst hangover I ever had" became "worst morning after I ever had." Those changes happened relatively shortly after the songs were released. Then again, there have been numerous songs that have been banned altogether throughout the history of the medium, although generally on an individual station basis, and usually following community pressure. One comes to mind in the pop music field: at one time some radio stations didn't give airplay to (or stopped playing) the Strawberries' "Go All the Way." Awfully tame stuff compared to what we've heard for the past couple of decades.
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Strawberries ? ;D
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Raspberries. Gimme a break, I was in radio in '70's. That explains a lot.
 
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