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INTERESTING VOICE TRACK STORIES

Re: Making a Difference

SirRoxalot said:
What's the biggest story RIGHT NOW? The stock market. Let's see you VT a comment about the latest stock market moves hours ahead of time. And, if you think that people aren't interested, you must not have a 401K, be shopping for a car, or a mortgage, or have a credit card. I'm not saying that you need to do a talk show, but to ignore the situation altogether isn't far from rolling a VT on 9/11/2001.
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Oh, that's an EASY topic to VT. Just say "the market's on another wild swing today" and you'll probably be right. :)
 
Don't people listen to music to escape? "The stock market's crashing, the economy sucks, you're going to lose your job and your house, and now Journey kicks off another long set.....".
 
gr8oldies said:
Don't people listen to music to escape? "The stock market's crashing, the economy sucks, you're going to lose your job and your house, and now Journey kicks off another long set.....".
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Sounds like the ABC "Timeless favorites" feed. NOTHING IS WRONG. ESPECIALLY IN THE ECONOMY.
 
First V/T I ever had experience with was when my night jock thought his wife was fooling around on him while he was at work. He recorded his stuff (about an hours worth)on carts and I ran the board while he caught her in the act. He came back in and with a smile on his face finished his shift.
 
I worked at a station in the 80's that had B/EZ with all sorts of funky comments cut by announcers at WPAT. All of these ran automated in Idaho, mind you, on an ancient Schafer Automation system that had a horrible warble. Nevertheless, people would call and ask to talk to "so and so," or would even write them letters.

As for V/T, ugh! It is a reality, but it ain't radio. I live in Mexico where most voicetracking is still frowned up. Even though there are some horrible announcers, the majority are actually very good and it is nice to turn on the radio after midnight and hear a real, local, live voice. As a kid I would stay up and listen to the local jocks because they seemed like they were my best friends.

Even on national "satellite radio" there are few who are live these days overnight, and the best of the bunch, Art Bell, retired. Art was a unique talent and sorry, George Noory, you suck! I have no idea how he got Art's place.
 
radiophiler said:
Not an interesting story, just an observation:

When I was growing up in the 70s, AM-FM combos would have the AM jock record carts for the FM automation. An early form of VT.

What's the difference? The jock was in market and in the building at the time the recordings were being made.

Why can't stations do that today? If you've got a five-six-seven-or-eight station group in a market, keep one live person there. Then, if the rest of the stations run over the weekend, or nights, by VT, there's a live person to correct things like updated severe weather forecasts, VT computer malfunctions, etc.

Hard to believe that if you've got a large group in a market, you can't keep ONE live person in studio from 5 am to midnight seven days a week. If you're not making enough money to do that, there's a larger problem then using VT.
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Some stations can...and do...do just what you're suggesting here. And it works.

And in markets I've worked in where the was no live overnight jock...I slept with a weather radio 3 feet from my ears. If it went off, regardless of the time of day, I got out of bed and drove the 15 minutes to the station...
 
When I was in Cincinnati I was working for the Clear Channel CHR and tracking some stations, I did a break saying the name of a Lexington station I had been doing before I tracked my Cincy weekend shift, so I am driving down the road and I hear me saying 104.5 the Cat Lexington, about drove off the road and Randy Michaels lived in town and listened sometimes. I never heard anythig about it.

One other story.... A friend of mine was tracking the hot ac in Cincy and his catch phrase was bull-shita. One day he messed up, he did a weather break and toward the end, botched a line and said, "bull-shita". As he was tracking someone walked in and side tracked him, so he accidently saved the break and it went on the air. He did not hear about it.
 
Sometimes if 3 or 4 people were v/t-ing all at the same time in different studios it would blow the system's mind (so to speak) and some tracks would pop up as the next element on the CURRENT log or end up on the wrong station or at the wrong time, or it may have been your own voice popping up talking about today's "Autorama" which isn't for another 4 days.
 
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