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QC

DeadElvis said:
BTW: OK, I'll sound a bit thick here, but, I'll ask anyway. This string is dubbed "QC." Surely, there is an obvious reason for this, but I am missing it. In my world, "QC" means "Queen's Counsel." I suspect, that is not the case here.

Enlightenment?

DE
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QC = Quality Control?

Being raised in restaurants has left that acronym ingrained in my brain.
 
I'm sure my teacher said Gautier like you said to say it, with the goat thing. QC was for quality control, not (resonant frequency divided by bandwidth) multiplied by the capacitance in farads.
 
robgrayson said:
Kacky traces her broadcast beginnings back to Clarksdale, working with the late inimitable Early Wright. "Kadoo's" could have been a "Wright-ism" which Kacky brought with her to the 'KNO audio radience. Not a confirmed story, but a possibility.
I thoroughly enjoy hearing old tapes of Early Wright (he's unfortunately not making any new ones now), and would treasure hearing someone who is able to be that "real" on the radio. I would also admit that at the time he was doing radio I would have been too thick to "get" it, and not appreciated what I was hearing for what it was. In the same way, way back when I got my blues from the Allman Brothers, Clapton and the like; nowadays I listen to the blues stuff on WEVL and find the most enjoyment in songs which sound like they were played on rubber-band guitar strings, with vocals I can't quite make out.
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I'm with you, Rob. I "didn't get" Early Wright's unique delivery, either. My 1st full time gig was in 78 working afternoons at WROX. Early would follow me at 7. After the 7p Mutual news (be-boop) I always wanted to say "and that concludes todays portion of professional broadcasting on WROX. Ladies & gentlemen...Early Wright." Why I never once air checked this guy I do not know. I suppose he wasn't slick enough & he sure wasn't polished enough for me at the time. I thought I was the "talent" in the building. Little did I know. But I do have at least one piece of tape on Early. He introduces some friends on mine, The Tangents, on a self released CD that I got from Duff Dourrough. Shoot me your e-mail & when I've got time to find it I'll send it to you. Outisde of that, perhaps Mrs. Early Wright still has some of his work if she wasn't swindled out of it about 14 years back by a shister. She's still in Clarksdale.
BTW, Early was & still remains the most down to earth, honest & sincere broadcaster that I have ever met. With you being a close 2nd, Rob. ;)
Early Wright WAS the real-deal.
 
So we're now down to discussing our own mistakes now? ;D Great! ;D My college station had a jazz format, at least in that particular daypart. I played a recording by Earl Klugh. I'll let you guess the rest. I had never heard of this guy! ::)
 
save yourself said:
Royal has come a long way with their new spokeswoman. I might get in the market for one of those Serta's real quick if she would be there to help me test them out.
This could be a whole new area of debate...the hottest babe in company ads.....
I have been turned off by the Homer Skelton girl who always reminds me I am going to like the way they do business as she crosses her hands, pushes her tits out and tries that sexual tone. Not impressed at all.
Boy, the Watson's girl has lost it over the years. Haven't seen her in a bikini in years.
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Did she ever really have it, whatever "it" was? Her voice has always annoyed me!
 
The Homer Skelton arm crossing thing wasn't my favorite either, but that girl is Sheli Sanders. She's done a LOT of commercail and voice over work. I haven't seen her in the Memphis market until now, though.

She's even done one of those time-life infomercials with Peter Fonda, IIRC.
 
> So we're now down to discussing our own mistakes now?

OK. Here's my worst.

I'm in high school, in beautiful Pascagoula. What I intended to say was "passes to the Plitt Cinema." Sadly, that was not how it came out.

This well-surpassed my previous worst mistake, when I attempted to say that Hurricane Allen was traversing the Gulf in an "erratic" pattern.

Fortunately, in my time at Kix-106 and FM100, we never had a promotion with Dilday TV. But, I digress. :)

Next?

DE
 
In the spring of 1970, while I was running WREC's "Survey" -a 90 minute news program, the great Tys Terway, Dutch reporter for AP who parachuted behind German lines on D-Day and years later worked at WMPS before coming to WREC in his waning years, was doing the Clark Burkle Feed Report and hit an all-time great howler when he said, " Mid-South farmers have been plagued with micro-orgasms over the last few weeks..."
I hid behind the control board and Tys knew something was wrong when he looked up and couldn't see me. He laughed loudest when I told him what had happened!
 
robgrayson said:
Kacky traces her broadcast beginnings back to Clarksdale, working with the late inimitable Early Wright. "Kadoo's" could have been a "Wright-ism" which Kacky brought with her to the 'KNO audio radience. Not a confirmed story, but a possibility.
I thoroughly enjoy hearing old tapes of Early Wright (he's unfortunately not making any new ones now), and would treasure hearing someone who is able to be that "real" on the radio. I would also admit that at the time he was doing radio I would have been too thick to "get" it, and not appreciated what I was hearing for what it was. In the same way, way back when I got my blues from the Allman Brothers, Clapton and the like; nowadays I listen to the blues stuff on WEVL and find the most enjoyment in songs which sound like they were played on rubber-band guitar strings, with vocals I can't quite make out.
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Kacky and I have the same roots actually. My second radio job was with her at WAID. Later I also worked in the Alcazar Hotel with Early Wright at WROX. I used to enjoy sitting in and watching him do his thing. "That was a beautiful number I played for you this time" "Have no fear the soul man is here" " (insert business name) where thousands of people stop by every day" some times when he was about to play a spot off cart he would say "you where tellin' me something a minute ago why don't you tell the people in radio land.... " and he'd start the spot


you should ask Kacky about broadcasting live from the Delta Jubilee.
 
I've only been here a year, but I find it rather ironic that a town like Memphis with its racial demographics has on a TV car commercial the guy who played a cowboy in 'Blazing Saddles.'


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As has been discussed here before, nearly all of WREC's "local" newscasts are read by the staff of WLW in Cincinnati.

Friday afternoon, a WREC newscast ended as follows:

"I'm Brant Schulz, NewsRadio 600, WLAC."

Nice.
 
Ahhhhh....yes.....but look at all the money that's being saved!!!!! Besides it's only a small error....only 200 or so miles.
 
Sheesh, I thought folks had trouble with Alabama placenames, but this region is much worse! I'll admit that I didn't know how to properly say Milan or Obion until the recent tornado outbreak that hit Memphis; you can learn a lot watching meteorologists on TV or streaming video. ::)

Three instances of mispronunciated (that's an old word I just made up) place names come to mind: back when a gay man was brutally slain in Sylacauga, Alabama, Dan Rather called it "Silla-coo-ga". Twice. It's Sill-uh-caw-ga.

Another is apparently how you can tell if someone is a longtime LA resident by how they say Sepulveda Boulevard. It's Seh-pull-ve-dah not Sepl-vee-da. I've heard it both ways in LA-centric movies.

Recently a national news service (USA News? Clear Channel?) mentioned the city of Mobile, Alabama, and pronounced it "Mobile" and not "Mo-beel".

...now, can anyone tell me what happened to the first "to" in Pontotoc? :)
 
Zach said:
...now, can anyone tell me what happened to the first "to" in Pontotoc? :)
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probably lost with the Chickasaw Indians who originally inhabited the area. Most names in Mississippi are Indian names just like in Alabama.

Pontotoc means "land of hanging grapes"
 
Sounds like a porno movie title! hahahahaha ;D

It'll be a classic...you know... "Debbie Does Dallas"..."Behind The Green Door"..."Deep Throat"...
and "Land Of The Hanging Grapes."

A certain Memphis mid-dayer may already have the movie in his collection. Ha! ;)
 
Back to the original situation which started this string... Today, same station, probably the same sponsor that wanted to send me to "tuh-NEE-kuh" told me I could find their product in "kuh-RINTH" (not KAH-rinth).
 
I keep hearing it as "Co" (rhymes with Moe) Rinth! ;D
Just as I hear "Bly-vull" Ark., and "Kay-Row"!
 
Uhhhh, Kay-Row IS correct for IL, though not for Egypt.
 
Oh, and it's correct for the corn syrup brand as well.
 
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