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Liners we wish we could run

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(Big voice-over guy voice) "The PD at this station thinks I sound cool, but nobodys actually sounds like this!" W_ _ _!

"We play more music then the other guys, and you believe it even if it's not true, because we know you don't sit by your radio with a stop watch!" W_ _ _!
 
We only play two kinds of music: Trash and stuff that busts your eardrums. Your superstation 108.2 The Roadblock.

Making up news since 1972, this is your AM supertalk station Piedmont 252 - now for the headlines from Fox News...

Playing 99 songs in a row - with non stop commercials inbetween. 86.8 The Pit.

The PD's buggered off with our paychecks so we're going on strike. In the meantime enjoy NOAA Weather Radio...
 
We play the best and most variety.....actually that's a big ole lie.......we play the same crap over & over just like everyone else...but thanks for listening to W---.........
 
This is a REAL liner from KARM in Bakersfield CA whose programming was bizarro incarnate. K A R N, "We're a different radio station every DAY!" In fact one day it was Oldies, one day it was Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock etc. They did that for 6 months before settling on one format. It was amazingly insane!
 
This is one that almost got me canned at WFNC back in the mid-70's: "OK, pardon me as we interupt these commercial messages to play some music!"
 
When I was a dumb first time program director, I ran some stuff that was pretty risky because I knew the station was getting bought and flipped to oldies. Here are a few (imagine in Keith Eubanks voice)

We may get bought and change format, but at least our program director isn't cheating on his wife, right (name of that PD)?...103X
This could be the last song we ever play....seriously, our time is ticking. 103X
Never mind the smoke and smells coming from the studio...what are they going to do, fire us and change the format. Yeah, pretty much that....103X
Our HR person doesn't like some of our on-air messages...and here's another one. Hey (name of HR person), bite me. 103X

Probably not my best work.
 
RickSchmidt said:
When I was a dumb first time program director, I ran some stuff that was pretty risky because I knew the station was getting bought and flipped to oldies. Here are a few (imagine in Keith Eubanks voice)

We may get bought and change format, but at least our program director isn't cheating on his wife, right (name of that PD)?...103X
This could be the last song we ever play....seriously, our time is ticking. 103X
Never mind the smoke and smells coming from the studio...what are they going to do, fire us and change the format. Yeah, pretty much that....103X
Our HR person doesn't like some of our on-air messages...and here's another one. Hey (name of HR person), bite me. 103X
Probably not my best work./quote]



I think the topic was "liners we wish we could run..nothave run, but at any rate, if you would have run those on any of my stations, I would have "Blackballed" you forever! Just Saying!
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Sport Talk W... , we used to play music! no money in that, anymore.

12 car commercials in a row, W-_-!

W#@*^, where we trytotalkasfastasthecarcommercialdisclaimers.
 
I think the topic was "liners we wish we could run..nothave run, but at any rate, if you would have run those on any of my stations, I would have "Blackballed" you forever! Just Saying!


I'd agree with you. Fortunately, I didn't have anything to lose....I already had another PD job in another market so I kept waiting for them to fire me so I wouldn't have to quit and not get severance. Funny thing, I was at the Gavin convention in Atlanta when they had the staff meeting and I was fired with everyone in the conference room while I was on the phone. I was officially hired by the other station about an hour later. I went to the convention working at one station and left working for another.

As for liners I we wish we could have run, didn't have many that at some point didn't make it to air at 98ROCK in Tampa.
But, slightly off topic, there were several billboards that never made it up, after rejections from all outdoor companies, like
the one that was a giant billboard of vomit with the words "Bubba the Love Sponge makes me sick!" or the one with a catholic priest and a little boy on his lap (mind you, this was right after huge news stories about problems in the church) and the words "some things are actually worse than Bubba the Love Sponge". They also wouldn't run the ones that simply said "GO _ _ C K YOURSELF! and the logo"...in stage two, we would snipe in the R and O for go rock yourself. Those did make it up in Cincy, so good for WEBN.

Anywhoooo, thanks for letting a former radio guy have a few memories.
 
So many people got "blackballed" and still turned up somewhere else Back In The Day through the revolving doors of radio, it doesn't even seem like that would be scary.

All that liner safety is part of what's made radio so bland today.
 
@Rick..Yep, been there done that too! Funniest Billboard I remember was in Chicago..One of those double things.. One panel said "SUPER JOCK, Larry Lujack and then right beside it was a billboard that said "Got JOCK ITCH" Get Crewex or whatever that powder was!!!
 
And now we're finally gonna play that one damn song all the kids have been calling for since the school bell rang and they could get to a phone. Listen to it now and don't call and request it while I'm playing it! Your good time station! WYYD!
 
Kinda OT, but I remembered this one while browsing the Call Letters topic, and Just wanted to share what I considered one of the worst I ever heard, just because of the way it was voiced.

From the early '70s in the Triad, heard on WSGH:

Pretend Big Voiced guy:

"WSGH, Music is what we he fo"

Seriously, no typos there, that is exactly how it came out on the air many times daily.
 
"We know you just think of us as background noise, but hey, at least it's better than listening to Irene from Accounting. Your lesser of two evils station, 109.9 The Chatter."


"Playing the same burnt song every 15 minutes. Crispy 109.9"


"More music. Less talk. Even more commercials."
 
i can't take credit for this, my brother came up with it.

On WSMW-HD2 (Simon's HD2) "We Play Everything -- Else!"
 
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