I just ran across this on an East Tennessee radio station's website. They require that callers speak a password on their "Trading Time" show before being allowed on the air. The announcer states the password - I suppose at the beginning and a few times throughout the show - for listeners to remember or write down in case they wish to call in their items for sale. I can't say I blame the station, because where I live two stations air such shows at two different times. I have worked at both stations and I've gotten calls for "the show" during the time "the show" was airing on the other station. Simply put, it was obvious the callers were not tuned-in to our station. The only drawback I see is that these callers who don't listen won't go to the trouble of calling and will email/fax/snail mail their items in, if that's an option. Therefore, I can see the announcer having to potentially fill gaps in the show due to lack of phone calls. I wonder if any area stations require callers to use passwords?
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Swap Shop - Trading Post Type Shows That Require a Password?
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knoxbob said:
WYSH - scroll down toward bottom and look for the red letters
http://www.wyshradio.com/
WZZQ here in Gaffney (former WAGI / WEAC) still airs Swap & Shop daily.
We get to hear callers wanting to buy, sell or trade stuff. No passwords although there are regulars
that call in almost every day and the DJ greets lots of them by name as a familiar voice.
We get to hear callers wanting to buy, sell or trade stuff. No passwords although there are regulars
that call in almost every day and the DJ greets lots of them by name as a familiar voice.
KyleAndMelissa22 said:
That is the way it worked While I was at WMNC, Very similar callers every day.
One thing that some of the call screeners would do is that our program was the Swap Shop, and the other station in the county had a Trading Post. With some call screeners if the caller asked for "The Trading Post" they would tell the caller that they had the wrong number because the Trading Post was not on WMNC. I didn't ever do that, but most of the time I was hosting the Swap Shop. Some days it was fun, others it was drudgery.
I did pretty much the same thing at WABZ in Albemarle, but the owners couldn't afford another warm body to screen calls. I had a run of a couple months where prank callers would hang up as I answered. I put a stop to that by opening the call first in audition about 10 seconds before I would greet the caller. If the VU meters kicked up, the call was a dud and I didn't even mention it on-air. They got wise to me though, and started waiting for me to greet them. Again, I fixed that by hooking up a switch in the telephone microphone, and greeted them through that off-air for three seconds before I switched the phone on-air. They would hang up, and I would be at the ready with sponsor copy to fill until the next call. After about two months, they got tired of trying to make me sound bad with the show, and I never had another problem. WABZ's Trading Post actually outlasted the station. When Bill Norman sold it off to Charlotte, they moved the trading post over to AM on WSPC, and it's still there.
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