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MJ TURKEY STUNT

I agree. If they were in trouble this episode of "Livin on the air in C---oops Tampa Bay" would not be on the website. This could change if for some reason they got fined by the FCC. Then they would have to fire Stern again. However, at least to me, WFLZ will always be WKRP and I guess that is better than WJM or remember WENN.
 
MsMusicRadio said:
I agree. If they were in trouble this episode of "Livin on the air in C---oops Tampa Bay" would not be on the website. This could change if for some reason they got fined by the FCC. Then they would have to fire Stern again. However, at least to me, WFLZ will always be WKRP and I guess that is better than WJM or remember WENN.
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Again, are any of you people actually in radio?

What FCC rules did they break? Answer... none.
 
The Ultimate Warrior said:
Again, are any of you people actually in radio?

What FCC rules did they break? Answer... none.
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Ooooh! Ooooh! Me, Mr. Kotter! I'm in radio!

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/falsebroadcast.pdf

If these guys pretended on the radio it was an accident, when it was in fact a planned occurrence... and the State Attorney's Office decides what they did was against law (at minimum they disturbed the peace or committed criminal mischief, and at worst they committed arson), then the FCC may have legitimate cause to fine anyone involved.

They can always try to fight the fine in court.
 
I'm sure Denny Crane or Cage and Fish could do a super defense. The whole thing could be covered on TV by Frank Fontana. If an arrest is necessary, Sgt. Wojohowitz is on the job.
 
Wazzie said:
What's the old line about "There is no such thing as bad publicity"? The stunt got them on all the news channels & in the papers. And yes, it was a stupid, childish prank. But I've never considered 93-3 a source for intelligence.

There is a threshold where bad publicity actually becomes........ BAD Publicity, I think Tiger Woods could now agree with that. (after losing his wife, perhaps his kids, and losing many valuable endorsements and losing respect and becoming the butt of jokes)

Anyone who has ever visited the burn unit in either a VA hospital or a civilian hospital, doesn't have much to joke about after a visit; it was very lucky that no one was seriously burned. Burn victims suffers years of operations, infections and intense pain..... many want to die rather than to go through life with gross disfigurements.

That said, here is today's (Mon 21 Dec) Tom Taylor's columns comments about the stunt:

"WFLZ, Tampa’s turkey drop was either A) a public service or B) “dangerous” fiasco.

The Tampa Fire Department has a very firm opinion about which one – fiasco, and its spokesman called it “dangerous.” The Friday morning MJ Morning Show bit was designed to cause a fire in an old van (not a station vehicle) to illustrate the dangers of improperly cooking a turkey. Here’s the St. Pete Times description – “The DJs used a crane to drop a turkey carcass through the open roof of a plumbing van that had a vat of burning oil inside.” You won’t be shocked to know that very soon, the entire van, with some old furniture inside, was on fire. The paper says “radio station employees ran around the van, first laughing, then trying to put [the fire out] with hand-held fire extinguishers.” Several years ago Clear Channel's WFLZ (93.3) did a stunt involving a fire intentionally set in a trailer, accomplished with the cooperation of the fire department. This time – they didn’t make the courtesy call, and one firefighter injured his back dealing with the emergency in the cluster's parking lot. One station employee was injured. The Florida state attorney’s office is reviewing the situation."

drt
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MsMusicRadio said:
...at least to me, WFLZ will always be WKRP and I guess that is better than WJM or remember WENN.
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Personally, WKRP, WJM and WENN are miles better than WFLZ. And those three stations are fictitious.
 
You people and your jealousy. FLZ is a wildly successful station with a wildly successful morning show.

There will be no charges, nor should there be. If you think FLZ is in any trouble you were taken by the bit. FLZ also clarified no employee was hurt.

Go watch the video before you comment.
 
WFLZ has been around for a long time and unlike WRVQ, still has more than one local show. I never worked in radio, so I have no agenda.
 
No doubt these radio warriors will attempt to top this next year. Maybe a "let's demonstrate how dangerous napalm is" bit in the parking lot.
 
Let's see here. So far 5 pages of people pissing and moaning about it. Mark Larsen leaving gets about half a page of comments.

GREAT JOB MJ and the whole morning show crew. One of the very best promos ever done.
 
The Ultimate Warrior said:
livingfruitvirus said:
Fester still did his On the Grill show today.
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You people work in radio?

Fester will not be fired and they got everything they wanted. A fire in the van, publicity and a vacation at Christmas.

Come on folks this was brilliant.

They did it once and didn't get the fire they wanted so they did it again and they posted the video all over their site. If they were in trouble you wouldn't see this info anywhere on CC sites..
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Hmmm, Fester is gone from the website according to abc news..
 
Wazzie said:
What's the old line about "There is no such thing as bad publicity"? The stunt got them on all the news channels & in the papers. And yes, it was a stupid, childish prank. But I've never considered 93-3 a source for intelligence.
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I'll go even further... I've never considered the company that runs 93-3 a source of intelligence.

Will be interesting to see how MJ's biggest adversary reacts to this stunt. By the way, since the first reference to Bubba only came in the fourth page of this thread, I already lost that pool...

One more thing... the most stupidest thing about this stunt is the fact that they didn't do it closer to the one holiday that everyone associates with turkeys!
 
MichaelCrose said:
Let's see here. So far 5 pages of people pissing and moaning about it. Mark Larsen leaving gets about half a page of comments.

GREAT JOB MJ and the whole morning show crew. One of the very best promos ever done.
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Amen, brother. Everybody knows who they are and what they are. Kinda like Hitler and cancer. Next year, how about a crucifixon? Now THAT would be a promotion that everybody would be talking about for years.
 
From someone who is sometimes too political, comparing MJ to Hitler is a bit extreme if I am reading the preceeding post correctly. MJ is more like Mussolini ------a bit of a showboat who's stunts backfired . Of course one can compare any morning show to flamboyant public figures. One axiom I think holds true. Radio stations who do turkey stunts are risking a lot as they will forever be remembered as "WKRP in Cincinnati".

Now if only the Rays could get a group like Rose/Perez/Morgan/Bench in their prime to really be like the "Queen City" on the Rhine ( not a Hitler analogy). And being in the American League, they could keep their Dan Dreesen guy in the line-up as DH without packing their Tony Perez guy off to Canada to open a hole in the line-up.

Maybe Fester can be traded to the Expos!
 
Tony Perez was traded to the Expos after the Reds won the 1976 Series pretty much wrecking the team chemistry. I often wondered if Mrs. Carlson , the owner of WKRP, was based on Marge Schott. I don't think she owned them yet, but when they won the 1990 series under Lou Pinella , she did. I could see her and Lou having a relationship like Mrs Carlson and the Gary Sandy character. ( was it Andy Travis?) Now back to 93FLZ.
 
MsMusicRadio said:
Tony Perez was traded to the Expos after the Reds won the 1976 Series pretty much wrecking the team chemistry. I often wondered if Mrs. Carlson , the owner of WKRP, was based on Marge Schott. I don't think she owned them yet, but when they won the 1990 series under Lou Pinella , she did. I could see her and Lou having a relationship like Mrs Carlson and the Gary Sandy character. ( was it Andy Travis?) Now back to 93FLZ.
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Marge Schott was not in control of the team until the 80s with one of her first decisions was to hire and bring back Pete Rose as player/manager. She also brought back Tony Perez so he could retire as a Red and hired him as manager only to fire him almost as quickly based on the advise of Jim Bowden. She was the owner of the team the last time they made the playoffs and despite her tendancies to be a shock jock without a morning show with her statements, she kept ticket prices low, dollar hot dogs, and provided winning baseball to Cincinnati, despite not caring about scouting or the minor leagues.
 
http://mj.933flz.com/pages/fester.html . Fester was never listed on the 933flz page if that's where they were looking. This is nothing compared to when Kramer gave out the alleged hotel number for the Backstrret Boys back in the day. That number began with 911 for those who forgot that stunt.

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