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PaulBWalkerJr

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When I was PD/MD of a 250 Watt Coffepot in Northwest Mississippi, this is the sign off that we used to run every night.....(whoosh) "WQMA"....."I'm Dave Daniels here to tell you that this now concludes the broadcast day for AM 1520 WQMA in Marks, Mississippi. WQMA is owned by Jason Konarz and operates on an assigned frequnecy of Fifteen Hundred Twenty Kilohertz with an effective radiated power of 250 Watts from Sunrise to Sunset only as authorized and licensed by the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, DC. WQMA has studios, offices and transmission facilities located 1/4 mile west of the Marks, Mississppi town line. We welcome your comments or comments by phone, mail or online. Our mailing address is 1820 West Marks Road, Marks Mississippi 38646. Our phone number is 662 326 3555 and our website is at www.q1520radio.com. On behalf of WQMA Owner and General Manager Jason Konarz, Sales & promotions Director Donna Konarz, Deacon and Sister McCall, Deacon James Figgs, I'm Paul Walker thanking you for listneing and we invite you to tune in bright an early tomorrow morning at sunrise for another great day of programming on The Delta's Oldies Channel, AM 1520 WQMA Marks, Mississppi. Good Night, God Bless America, The Troops Serving Overseas......" into National Anthem sung by Whitney Houston..................This was pre-recorded as a 4 1/2 minute file which ran automatically at sunset each night, but every now and then I'd do it live just for shits and giggles. Oh, I used bed music for the message. What did I use? The Price Is Right with Bob Barker theme music looped once (since it's only 1 mintue and 5 seconds long)Now, when I was in Florida, if we had to sign off at night for repairs or during the day I'd simply crack the mic and say, "This is WTIR Cocoa Beach, Florida now concluding it's broadcast day so we can make repairs to our transmission system. We will return shortly"
 
LOL I didn't catch that!! :) I used the name Dave Daniels on the air........ I was doing too many things at ocne when I typed that..
 
Some years ago I cut a parody sign-off message that actually ran on April Fool's Day. It rambled on for about three minutes and included bits like "the studio is located at least six inches under water and that's on a dry day" and "if you can't pick us up in the morning we may need you to come down and push!" It was really very funny, but what I didn't know at the time was the station owner was in town and was listening! Fortunately he was a good sport and nothing bad ever came of it, but I never did it again.
 
I worked at an AM/FM simulcast about 20 years ago, when the AM was having some serious issues. Our CE did a "crash cart" that said, without paraphrasing, "This is K***, we are going off the air to fix our transmitter, please listen to our FM sister station, K*** instead. If you only have an AM radio, we will be back on the air soon...we hope."
 
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