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Saw this on another board, there has to be some funny tales from this island...lets hear them!


One of mine....I worked early on at an AM in South Jersey, midnight to 6am, a lonely shift, but I was happy to be on the air somewhere.....The station, was located in a seedy part of town (surprise) and some nights hookers and their customers would use our parking lot for romp time...so while I was lonely, I was never bored! ;D

I always wanted to run a mike cable out there, but was too freaking scared!
 
Sometime back in the day of the rule of 7s, I was walking out to my car with my fellow program director (of the FM) alongside to grab dinner. In the parking lot was the GM's Buick with our boss sitting inside. Also in the car (but only seen barely past the dashboard) was the promotions girl. She seemed to be *promoting* something but in the early dusk, it was hard to say.

I turned and commented that we could turn around and go inside and phone Mrs. General Manager and probably end up owning the radio stations after the divorce. We stopped and considered the thought for a moment and thought better of it. "Just more work", he said, "let's go eat".

CJ
 
My very first shift at WRCN, when it was up in Melville and on 2 stations, 94.3 and 103.9. One that sticks out in my mind. I was going to do Saturday overnight, no biggie, midnight to 6. There was this crazy guy on before me named Mike, who was only there a short time. I showed up at 11:30, and walked into the building, hearing a girl giggling and moaning, I called out HELLO???? Just then a naked girl, ran screaming out of the conference room, everything bobbling up and down and a few seconds later out walks Mike, zipping up.
I remember thinking, I like it here!
I never liked having meetings on that conference room table after that and I would cringe when people would eat lunch there!
 
LOL. I have a similar story after a different radio station. While I didn't witness this one, I was the first to hear it from my FM morning guy:

The night jock on our AM at the time was a good looking woman, who, today would be called a "cougar". Since the BM/EZ FM was on auto-pilot at night, she had the place to herself. Both stations signed off at midnight or a bit later if there was a sporting event on the AM.

So, the first jock scheduled to be in the building was our new morning on the FM. As he related to me later in the day, he came in at 4am to prepare for the show through the backdoor and heard noises coming from the sales bullpen at the front of the building. Since he thought that he was alone in the building, he quietly walked up the hall to peer into the sales area and there he saw - in no particular order: the police chief, the local fire chief and our hard working night jock on a large conference table all butt naked.

He figures that they didn't see him or were too busy serving the public interest to care.

He walked back to the FM studio to prepare for the show and the party departed through the front doors soon afterwords.

CJ
 
Many years ago when I was working some overnights at WNYG, they had a light that went on when someone was at the front door, you would swear that the light went on, and yet no one was at the door. All night long, you would see it light up, some say that house is haunted.


I wasnt there for this, but I heard that the owners of that station, Mrs H, gave away bottles of outdated ketchup as Christmas gifts to the staff one year.

I also heard she climbed out of a window to escape the IRS people, once again, I wasnt there, only something I heard.
 
rockyradio said:
Many years ago when I was working some overnights at WNYG, they had a light that went on when someone was at the front door, you would swear that the light went on, and yet no one was at the door. All night long, you would see it light up, some say that house is haunted.


I wasnt there for this, but I heard that the owners of that station, Mrs H, gave away bottles of outdated ketchup as Christmas gifts to the staff one year.

I also heard she climbed out of a window to escape the IRS people, once again, I wasnt there, only something I heard.
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I never had the front door light go on with no one there when I did overnights at WNYG. But I've heard all about the haunted radio station stories there. I never did see any ghosts there, but I sometimes heard strange noises whenever I left the studio to go to the bathroom or whatever. I always kept the studio monitors cranked when I was on the air there hoping that if indeed there was someone or something there, they wouldn't bother me. I guess it worked. And yes, I also heard all about Mrs. H's outdated ketchup presents and her adventures with the IRS. Those were before my time, but it would have been fun to be there on that day when the feds showed up. I really miss the house on 109 :'(
 
I heard about the FBI escape firsthand from a witness--the witness being the now-deceased Scott Robbins, who was a WBAB jock back in the early 70's. She went downstairs and crawled up through and out of one of the basement office windows.

Amazing. And true.
 
I remember a story about an overnight jock, who couldn't take the heat, coming in and trashing the studios at WNYG on a Sunday night. I wonder who that was......

And did we ever fix the CD's and the rack he punched????
 
I remember a story about an overnight jock, who couldn't take the heat, coming in and trashing the studios at WNYG on a Sunday night. I wonder who that was......

And did we ever fix the CD's and the rack he punched????


Yeah I remember that story too, but heat had nothing to do with it, that guy back then was a hot head. But as I recall the studios were not trashed, and only a wooden cd rack was punched, from behind,for which two fingers were injured. Funny a few weeks after that he found a new place to beat people up out east. Age and time has mellowed him, and he has learned to let silly things go.
 
Mike, FYI I never worked at WLIE, and I left WRCN because my contract was up, and wasnt being renewed and I was unhappy working there. So I guess I did get a good backstabbing at WRCN when I left, but who doesnt when being let go, its the nature of the beast....I was hired that day by WBAB, so the pain lasted about a minute.
You seem to know the stories, but werent there when I was.....Now Im not looking for a grudge match, so let it go, people change!
I did work at WLUX, and they fired a bunch of people, a few WELL known announcers and hired some new people, but I wasnt in management there and had no hand in that, in fact I was dismayed when they let go the guys I listened to as a kid, in fact two guys. Joe Roberts and Jim Ferguson.
 
Y'all missed the best radio station to work at, ever. And it was WRCN. But.... when it was out in Riverhead. Matt Mangas, Morgan Thomas, Sam Ryan (yes, that one), me, Kappy, AJ, Richie, Chris and even David, Dick and the sales staff rocked. I'm not sure I even remember it all...

Joe Thomas
WCHV, Charlottesville, VA
 
rockyradio said:
Mike, FYI I never worked at WLIE, and I left WRCN because my contract was up, and wasnt being renewed and I was unhappy working there. So I guess I did get a good backstabbing at WRCN when I left, but who doesnt when being let go, its the nature of the beast....I was hired that day by WBAB, so the pain lasted about a minute.
You seem to know the stories, but werent there when I was.....Now Im not looking for a grudge match, so let it go, people change!
I did work at WLUX, and they fired a bunch of people, a few WELL known announcers and hired some new people, but I wasnt in management there and had no hand in that, in fact I was dismayed when they let go the guys I listened to as a kid, in fact two guys. Joe Roberts and Jim Ferguson.
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I meant WLUX (WLIE) whatever it was then. All I know is that some nasty things were said behind the back of a few friends who worked there and I know where they came from. One friend had some bad judgement in the past, but maybe like others, he has changed his tune.
 
All I know is that some nasty things were said behind the back of a few friends who worked there and I know where they came from.


Mike, seriously it was like 18 years ago, when we were at the same station, and ten when I was at WLUX, and I can only think of one guy there who we might have had in common, and who cares whats been said, and nasty things have been said behind the backs of many, including me, and most came from the same area, who cares? You have made your path in radio and I have made my own, Have fun!
 
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