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XCountry285 said:
Why can't jocks say their real name on the air?
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Back in the day first starting out (pre internet), I used my real name and started getting calls at all hours of the night. After that I used an air name but was in the telephone book under my real name. That way people who really knew me could find me and no more crazy calls from drunks at 3 AM!
 
In my radio announcing days, I always used my real name, but:

  • I still lived at home with my parents.
  • I lived in a neighboring county.
  • Both of the above
  • The station was too small or too rinky-dink to even attract such harassers.
  • I had left the station and moved by the time the next telephone directory came out.
  • I was primarily a "bored-op," and not really an announcer.
  • My address was listed, but the apartment number was not.
  • I had caller ID.
  • I later dropped my address from my listing.
  • I let the answering machine answer all unfamiliar calls.
  • I got (just) a cell phone, and dropped the land-line phone.
 
I tried to use an airname on my first radio job at WHIN, but after using "Terry Patterson" (given to me by Jack Hunter) just one time ..the phones erupted with laughter.. "that's not Terry Patterson"...that's Pat Julian..so I had to use my real moniker as I had lived here all my life and just about everyone knew me...Not the best Airname...wasn't til I worked at 102.9 in the Rockin country days..could I use another one..
 
Yeah, Pat - I can do different voices, etc., so once when we were tweaking a format and image change on a station, uh, our GM decided that I needed to become the new voice of afternoon drive (while still doing mornings) because of a "quickly executed" jock exit to greener pastures. With about a two hour notice the change was complete, with fake name and liners...everything. It all went along perfectly fine until I was busted by the night jock five minutes into his show. None of us thought about telling him who I had become. Thankfully, there was no FB to ridicule my @$$. We hired a new afternoon drive talent the following Monday. I thought it was Cheesy and Lame and doomed to fail, but i wasn't duh boss. Over a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch, I created the on-air moniker "The Chester Lane Experience"... at your service to celebrate what would surely become a bad experiment. As fate would have it, Chester survived four hours, six minutes and probably 13 seconds!

Say nothing Nock.
 
Back when Beaver was country and at same frequency now occupied by hip hop, every jock except one weekender and the news guy had a stage name, assigned by the PD.

At a Clarksville station to the far right of dial jocks could pick their own name, be it stage or real.

At a Centerville FM you could be called anything but "late to work". Showing up to work on time was a premium.
 
IIRC (and according to some broadcast school students) When WKOS flipped to 96 Kiss early 80's, Larry Martino was morning jock who made way for Jim Zippo. Martino moved to nights and used new name Tony Cox. Same personality, new name.
 
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