May I ask what I was listening to? (You may not)

[Encyclopedia]

I was traveling thru the Bristol & Knoxville area and I heard what seemed to be some kind of contemporary music station.The weird thing I heard on this station was this,the station seemed to be a slick professional sounding operation until they went into a commercial break and the first thing I hear in the stop-set is some OLD,SLOW sounding voice who sounds like the boring old narrator in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" saying in some outdated 1950s beautiful music station style, "It's 85 degrees at 6:53!".I mean you're listening to this slick reasonably modern sounding station and all of a sudden "The Voice Of The Masoleum" comes on and brings the station to screeching halt.Somehow I think this guy may be the last remmant of an old owner who still thinks that doing that is "relavant".Or maybe this station had one of those old Beautiful music formats and this guy's "time & temp" checks are the only thing left (because the owner would probably like to go back to that format but realized it's time has passed).I bet the airstaff calls this guy "Dr.Death".Who was I listening to?

 

[Pratte4Life]

Welcome to east Tennessee radio

It sounds to me to be about a typical on-air radio employee in the Tri-Cities.

Everytime I hear someone rant about corporate radio I am reminded of the good ol' Tri-Cities- where many of the stations are still operated by private individuals- and they have absolutely no professional or contemporary standards.

At least Clear Channel provides competent employees for their listeners.

 

[bp37918]

Was it AM or FM? Around what town were you listening?

 

[mannboy2]

Re: Welcome to east Tennessee radio

More than likely it was Steve Mann at WTFM...He has 10 different forms
of Monotone!!!! >



It sounds to me to be about a typical on-air radio employee
> in the Tri-Cities.
>
> Everytime I hear someone rant about corporate radio I am
> reminded of the good ol' Tri-Cities- where many of the
> stations are still operated by private individuals- and they
> have absolutely no professional or contemporary standards.
>
> At least Clear Channel provides competent employees for
> their listeners.
>
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[BuckGumbeaux]

Re: Welcome to east Tennessee radio

Lawd, Lawd! Steve Mann gots more forms of monotone than Dave Barnette gots swingin' medalions. I'm kiddin' of course, Dave Barnette gots him a whole mess of swingin' medalions. I hear he used to be a 70's porn-star. In fact, I heard he STILL IS a 70's porn-star. Jest what I heard.


> More than likely it was Steve Mann at WTFM...He has 10
> different forms
> of Monotone!!!! >
>
>
>
> It sounds to me to be about a typical on-air radio employee
> > in the Tri-Cities.
> >
> > Everytime I hear someone rant about corporate radio I am
> > reminded of the good ol' Tri-Cities- where many of the
> > stations are still operated by private individuals- and
> they
> > have absolutely no professional or contemporary standards.
>
> >
> > At least Clear Channel provides competent employees for
> > their listeners.
> >
>

 

[Spindoctor]

Re: Welcome to east Tennessee radio

> Lawd, Lawd! Steve Mann gots more forms of monotone than Dave
> Barnette gots swingin' medalions. I'm kiddin' of course,
> Dave Barnette gots him a whole mess of swingin' medalions. I
> hear he used to be a 70's porn-star. In fact, I heard he
> STILL IS a 70's porn-star. Jest what I heard.
>
>
No, no, no get it right, Dave Barnette was (and still is) the Danny Terio
stand in for Dance Fever and he's also moonlighting as a Solid Gold reunion
dancer.
Sheesh, porn star.. yeah right, the Dave Barnette fan club "The Barnettes"
claim he doesn't have the "credentials" to be a porn star... wink wink,
nod nod.
Kidding Dave, how's the rash?
The Spindoctor

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