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Speaking of NUTS.. How god of a job are you or local stations doing in keeping
crazy perple out of your station???
I say this with a grain of salt... but it is serrious business. Not to disclose and secrets but radio station security is now more of an isue than ever
how are you addresing it
 
> Speaking of NUTS.. How god of a job are you or local
> stations doing in keeping
> crazy perple out of your station???
> I say this with a grain of salt... but it is serrious
> business. Not to disclose and secrets but radio station
> security is now more of an isue than ever
> how are you addresing it
>
When Susquehanna built their new station complex in Indianapolis, it's so secure it's almost like entering a jail. Visitors enter a reasonably pleasent room with 1 bank-style window, a bank drawer, and 2 steel doors with no windows. Visitors go to the bullet-proof glass window and state their business. If the visitor is collecting a prize, it is handed out thru the bank drawer. If it's a visitor who has business with an employee or a on-air guest, they are given a visitor badge and buzzed in thru one of the steel doors. Otherwise, no entry allowed. A security guard is always on duty. Now, the studios & offices are NOT in a bad area of town. It's a very nice suburban location.
 
> Speaking of NUTS.. How god of a job are you or local
> stations doing in keeping
> crazy perple out of your station???
> I say this with a grain of salt... but it is serrious
> business. Not to disclose and secrets but radio station
> security is now more of an isue than ever
> how are you addresing it
>

My situation is horrible, and I've complained about several issues, including the lighting. It's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
 
Security is a major problem for all of us. If it's a financial issue or you have employees milling about, you know the type, they just walk around almost like in a daze. Give them double duty by providing them with a security cap and nightstick. Let them be on the front line to help those wishing assistance as they enter the building. If a bad guy comes in they can just talk them to death.

Amel
 
Amel! I say to you BROTHER!!!
I remember once walking out the station door in the dark of night and passing my car and heading right into the corn field. If that nice man with the White Sox uniform wasn't there to show me out to Iowa, who knows where I coulda ended up. Probably down near the river where it would have been too dark to see the little froggy. Personally I think the whole thing was Magic. If not Sunny. I even recall there being some Thunder. And as for you dillweed. You bring us well needed spice. Between you and the former poster known as BUTTEREDPARSNIPS, you each could have made quite an irresistable side dish together. Maybe it's the TastyKake Krimpet in my briefcase talking, but I don't see you as not bringing hostility to this board...perhaps some bad grammer, yeah poor spelling maybe...but not hostility.
 
After we changed from Classic Rock to Hot AC, the PD put a double barrel shotgun, loaded, in the FM studio because of all the death threats we received, (ie: Northern PA) Otherwise, we kept a stale chunk of beef jerky and a six pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon tied to the flag pole outside. Usually the rednecks spent so much time trying to figure out how to get to it, they would forget why they came to the station in the first place.
 
> Maybe it's the TastyKake
> Krimpet in my briefcase talking, but I don't see you as not
> bringing hostility to this board...perhaps some bad grammer,
> yeah poor spelling maybe...but not hostility.

You don't have a briefcase.

Well maybe you do, but you don't need a briefcase. You're in radio. A krimpet is about the only thing meaningful in a radio guy's briefcase.

And was it a joke or priceless irony? GrammEr I mean.
 
> > Maybe it's the TastyKake
> > Krimpet in my briefcase talking, but I don't see you as
> not
> > bringing hostility to this board...perhaps some bad
> grammer,
> > yeah poor spelling maybe...but not hostility.
>
> You don't have a briefcase.
>
> Well maybe you do, but you don't need a briefcase. You're in
> radio. A krimpet is about the only thing meaningful in a
> radio guy's briefcase.
>
> And was it a joke or priceless irony? GrammEr I mean.
>
IT WAS A JOAK! (insert laugh sfx)

Also, is it just me or is the phrase "Thanks for waiting" out of every stopset on QFM just go through you like fingers on a blackboard? I told Amel about it recently. He said it made him feel uncomfortable...a little burning and itching.
 
> When Susquehanna built their new station complex in
> Indianapolis, it's so secure it's almost like entering a
> jail. Visitors enter a reasonably pleasent room with 1
> bank-style window, a bank drawer, and 2 steel doors with no
> windows. Visitors go to the bullet-proof glass window and
> state their business. If the visitor is collecting a prize,
> it is handed out thru the bank drawer. If it's a visitor who
> has business with an employee or a on-air guest, they are
> given a visitor badge and buzzed in thru one of the steel
> doors. Otherwise, no entry allowed. A security guard is
> always on duty. Now, the studios & offices are NOT in a bad
> area of town. It's a very nice suburban location.

HUH?

I was at Susq/Indy in November - pretty standard station lobby, receptionist at a desk out in the open, nice display of old radios in the corner, and a door (not even locked, as I recall) leading into the studios/offices. No visitor badge, either, at least not that they gave me. <P ID="signature">______________
Tower Site Calendar 2006 ON SALE! - <a target="_blank" href=http://www.fybush.com/nerw.html#calendar>www.fybush.com</a></P>
 
> Speaking of NUTS.. How god of a job are you or local
> stations doing in keeping
> crazy perple out of your station???
> I say this with a grain of salt... but it is serrious
> business. Not to disclose and secrets but radio station
> security is now more of an isue than ever
> how are you addresing it
>


By running spell and grammar check on every document I send out.
 
> IT WAS A JOAK! (insert laugh sfx)
>
> Also, is it just me or is the phrase "Thanks for waiting"
> out of every stopset on QFM just go through you like fingers
> on a blackboard? I told Amel about it recently. He said it
> made him feel uncomfortable...a little burning and itching.
>

Is a JOAK a terristic tool to confuse the masses? I don't get it Also, who's Amel, do we care about his itching and burning and is he related to ED? Besides what does this all have to do with station security? TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT!
 
> > Not to disclose and secrets but radio station
> > security is now more of an isue than ever
> > how are you addresing it
>
> By running spell and grammar check on every document I send
> out.


{{{{{{APPLAUSE}}}}}}}}<P ID="signature">______________
D. Stroyer
Celebrating 10 years of idle radio message board speculation.. Minus those 2.5 years when I actually worked in radio fulltime.</P>
 
> > > Not to disclose and secrets but radio station
> > > security is now more of an isue than ever
> > > how are you addresing it
> >
> > By running spell and grammar check on every document I
> send
> > out.
>
>
> {{{{{{APPLAUSE}}}}}}}}
>
dis is whattt makes hour boared fun
 
> > When Susquehanna built their new station complex in
> > Indianapolis, it's so secure it's almost like entering a
> > jail. Visitors enter a reasonably pleasent room with 1
> > bank-style window, a bank drawer, and 2 steel doors with
> no
> > windows. Visitors go to the bullet-proof glass window and
> > state their business. If the visitor is collecting a
> prize,
> > it is handed out thru the bank drawer. If it's a visitor
> who
> > has business with an employee or a on-air guest, they are
> > given a visitor badge and buzzed in thru one of the steel
> > doors. Otherwise, no entry allowed. A security guard is
> > always on duty. Now, the studios & offices are NOT in a
> bad
> > area of town. It's a very nice suburban location.
>
> HUH?
>
> I was at Susq/Indy in November - pretty standard station
> lobby, receptionist at a desk out in the open, nice display
> of old radios in the corner, and a door (not even locked, as
> I recall) leading into the studios/offices. No visitor
> badge, either, at least not that they gave me.

Really. This was done in late 1998. I was the PD of 2 stations in Indy and we contracted with the Susquehanna engineers. It's certainly possible that it has changed in all that time. When I was out there, you couldn't get near the receptionist! BTW, is Max Turner sill the Chief Engineer??
 
I have a license for it.

The station provides almost no security and so in the event that some disruntled whatever comes marching down the hall I'm prepared to shoot him dead.
 
> > > Not to disclose and secrets but radio station
> > > security is now more of an isue than ever
> > > how are you addresing it
> >
> > By running spell and grammar check on every document I
> send
> > out.
>
>
> {{{{{{APPLAUSE}}}}}}}}
>

I heard a rumor that in the mid-90's one could merely befriend a Stroudsburg DJ and get a nickle tour of WSBG/WVPO. I'm sure those days are long gone.

Also, I heard it helped to talk radio on a low-power TV station when said guest had laryngitis.<P ID="signature">______________
I've done it all...HOO HOO...tell 'em, Fred!
FOX News Alert: YOU SUCK!!! Ya like apples?</P>
 
Re: I have a license for it.

> The station provides almost no security and so in the event
> that some disruntled whatever comes marching down the hall
> I'm prepared to shoot him dead.

Laws vary by state, but in my particular state you're permitted to have a concealed weapon in your residence and primary place of business without a license.<P ID="signature">______________
</P>
 
Re: I have a license for it.

> Laws vary by state, but in my particular state you're
> permitted to have a concealed weapon in your residence and
> primary place of business without a license.

So let's all keep our eyes open for ammo sales.
 
> Is a JOAK a terristic tool to confuse the masses? I don't
> get it Also, who's Amel, do we care about his itching and
> burning and is he related to ED? Besides what does this all
> have to do with station security? TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT!

Mine the parking lot!
 
Re: I have a license for it.

> > Laws vary by state, but in my particular state you're
> > permitted to have a concealed weapon in your residence and
>
> > primary place of business without a license.
>
> So let's all keep our eyes open for ammo sales.
>

...who I've heard is the cousin of Soupy.
 
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