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- Thread starter STICKBOY
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When I was at KRZ in 1991 I had a profanity moment.
Mike E. Moore (later Joe Momma ... now Newman in Harrisburg) was doing a live shot from the Woodlands on a Saturday night/Sunday morning. During the last break, around 12:47 a.m., he decided to ask a few folks gathered around him about the party atmosphere that night. The first guy he puts the mic to said, "You've got to come down here ... it's f**king great!"
I was on the floor. Mike could hardly say a word. He tried to pretend it didn't happen, but he stammered through his closing so bad it was obvious that something had gone down.
The second I went into spots, the "hot line" lit up. I was freaked, but it was just Mike, asking if that had gone over the air. I said it did, so we stayed on the phone for a bit in a pitiful attempt to keep our jobs for a few moments longer by tying up the hot line.
Thankfully, nothing came of it (I don't even know that anyone heard it), but Mike made sure to NEVER stick an open mic in front of anyone there again (unless they were properly coached ahead of time ... or a station employee).
Ah, memories...
Mike E. Moore (later Joe Momma ... now Newman in Harrisburg) was doing a live shot from the Woodlands on a Saturday night/Sunday morning. During the last break, around 12:47 a.m., he decided to ask a few folks gathered around him about the party atmosphere that night. The first guy he puts the mic to said, "You've got to come down here ... it's f**king great!"
I was on the floor. Mike could hardly say a word. He tried to pretend it didn't happen, but he stammered through his closing so bad it was obvious that something had gone down.
The second I went into spots, the "hot line" lit up. I was freaked, but it was just Mike, asking if that had gone over the air. I said it did, so we stayed on the phone for a bit in a pitiful attempt to keep our jobs for a few moments longer by tying up the hot line.
Thankfully, nothing came of it (I don't even know that anyone heard it), but Mike made sure to NEVER stick an open mic in front of anyone there again (unless they were properly coached ahead of time ... or a station employee).
Ah, memories...
There was one I remember of from the mid-80's... a local TV Newsman was doing a Sunday shift on our AM/FM combo(before his transition to TV). He was trying to intro the Sunday Church service and read the sponsored open live on the FM station. The problem was, he was listening to the AM station in his headset and didn't hear anything when he tried to do the live open! After several attempts to "mic-up", he lost it and started a cursing tirade that would make Howard Stern blush! The problem was that we was doing this live over the FM, but was listening to the AM. The Church was monitoring the FM for the cue to start the service with a live radio broadcasting inside the building turned up loud!!!!!! Curse words, ethnic slurs, and extreme sexual content! Imagine the calls I recieved from outraged parishioners who were sitting at Church when all heck broke loose! Needless to say, we never broadcast that service again, and little is ever mentioned of this mishap.
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Vepster
Guest
Backtiming to something or other back in the day, and should have known...actually knew it was dangerous...but needed something like 12 seconds long.
There was a George Carlin album laying around and lo and behold, on it a 12 second bit called "The American Pancake Institute". Hmm, American, pancakes, only 12 seconds long. What could go wrong?
Dropped it on the turntable to the pancake cut and was treated to, "And now, a message from the American Pancake Institute....F _ _ K WAFFLES!"
There was a George Carlin album laying around and lo and behold, on it a 12 second bit called "The American Pancake Institute". Hmm, American, pancakes, only 12 seconds long. What could go wrong?
Dropped it on the turntable to the pancake cut and was treated to, "And now, a message from the American Pancake Institute....F _ _ K WAFFLES!"
I was doing nostalgia radio out near the Cape years ago and put a Jimmy Durante disc on. Partway thru the song, he imitated a trumpet with a mute: "Twa, twa, twa," but didn't do it clearly.
Out of the air monitor, I heard: "Twat, twat, twat."
Out of the air monitor, I heard: "Twat, twat, twat."
Many moons ago I was a part-timer at a station outside the area. The news person was taping news to air later in the evening...he kept on messing up....dropping the ole f a few times. He finally did one clean...and ended up putting the wrong f-tainted version to be aired in the next news slot! It was later in the night...got a few calls....most of the people were laughing...amazingly no one was fired...
Similar situation, Erica, only this news guy gets 3/4 of the way through his newscast and suddenly goofs up... all he says for the next 30 seconds is F***,F***, F*** on and on.... Well, he records the news again without error. Only he forgot to erase the cart... I was listening to the newscast and something sounded strange.. like an echo... What happened, was he read the news with the exact same tempo and inflection... but when it got to the good part the news continued, but with explitives underneath the last 30 seconds over and over! The cart had recued and he started again right from the beginning of his first botched newscast! He became a lawyer!!!
Either my post got censored, or the machine did it automatically. I'll try again.
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was doing nostalgia radio out near the Cape years ago and put a Jimmy Durante disc on. Partway thru the song, he imitated a trumpet with a mute: "Twa, twa, twa," but didn't do it clearly.
Out of the air monitor, I heard the word "t-w-[EDIT]-t" three times. I thought, "Well, there goes my job at this place." Nobody complained; I guess they heard it as meant.
[vulgar]
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was doing nostalgia radio out near the Cape years ago and put a Jimmy Durante disc on. Partway thru the song, he imitated a trumpet with a mute: "Twa, twa, twa," but didn't do it clearly.
Out of the air monitor, I heard the word "t-w-[EDIT]-t" three times. I thought, "Well, there goes my job at this place." Nobody complained; I guess they heard it as meant.
[vulgar]
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warm590
Guest
Well this is a little off subject but I thought you might get a chuckle out of it..here goes:
On the pea shooter am where I work, we run an irish show sunday morning with a fine irish gentleman named Cornelius. Since Cornelius can't run the board, the station manager was and Cornelius didn't wear 'phones he couldn't hear what was going out over the air. Station MGR has a "flatulence" CD with 32 trouser rippers with names like "the krispy kreeme", "the barnburner", etc. He was dropping the sound effects in while Cornelius was talking, unbeknownst to him. Soon the station phone rings. Caller with heavy Irish brogue calls up: "cornelius- whats that matter with ya man...are ya sick???"
Wish I had an aircheck of that one ;D
longing for the good ol' days
warm590
On the pea shooter am where I work, we run an irish show sunday morning with a fine irish gentleman named Cornelius. Since Cornelius can't run the board, the station manager was and Cornelius didn't wear 'phones he couldn't hear what was going out over the air. Station MGR has a "flatulence" CD with 32 trouser rippers with names like "the krispy kreeme", "the barnburner", etc. He was dropping the sound effects in while Cornelius was talking, unbeknownst to him. Soon the station phone rings. Caller with heavy Irish brogue calls up: "cornelius- whats that matter with ya man...are ya sick???"
Wish I had an aircheck of that one ;D
longing for the good ol' days
warm590
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kingofrock
Guest
oohhh fah.. Don't get me started on this one... Which station... hahahaha.....
aaahhhh F#$% It....
never mind...
aaahhhh F#$% It....
never mind...
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