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The More Things Change...

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Tynosaur

First, kudos to WKNO-FM. They're in their new quarters and rolling along.

Second, the fellow running the board this afternoon in one of the news hours missed a break and came on a short while later with this: "Sorry about that, locked myself out of our new building...but things are ok once more."

That takes me back!
 
Dead Elvis can share more details about this but.....there was this early Sunday morning jock who locked himself out of the station back in Jackson, MS in the late 80's..... Poor fellow just had to go outside to the lobby and have a smoke so he took one but left his key back in the control room. A beautiful all glass front door, worth lots and lots of money blocked his return, and he decided that was the only way back in.... so he threw one of those huge and heavy floor type ashtrays through the glass door and zipped back to the studio so he could keep spinning the hits.....

Dead Elvis was the PD of that station, and he lived in walking distance of the station. But this guy didnt wanna wake the PD and he assumed there were tons of folks listening at 7AM on a Sunday.....well you can see what happened. Not a good day for him for sure....
 
When WQUD / WRVR was on Central at Philadelphia (about 1979-80) the song carts had sec tones on them, and we did three in a row. So, you could stack up about 12 -15 minutes worth of tunes, sprint three blocks down to the stop-and-rob on the corner of Central and Parkway and grab a snack. I always hid a spare key in the bushes to keep that very thing from happening. Saved my butt more than once.

Note to the newbies: If you don't know what sec tones are, never mind. I won't bother explaining carts either...
 
I fell asleep once at FM100 at about 3am When i dozed I managed to pull over a cart rack with 100 carts in it. Needless to say I never fell asleep on the air again.
 
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