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The Problem With...Christeen!

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Scooter Lesley

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Over my shoulder, at a backward glance...Radio Storytime, with Scooter:
When we moved into our new digs at Park Central, we, the collective Air Staff of Rock 101 WCKN,
later WROQ,...had no idea what awaited all of us in that corner Broadcast studio. To this day, it still boggles the minds of several Engineers, most of which did not believe our stories...our stories about..."Christeen". Maybe it was the carpet, the sound soke on the walls, something wasn't grounded well enough or just a combination of the various. Whether Poultryghost, Digital Demon, or
some trapped Static Spirit, but if you did not conduct yourself in a certain manner, things would happen. We assumed Static Electricity, and dubbed "Her",..."Christeen"! No birthday ballons could last more than 5-minutes. One of my Interns removed a pull-over sweater, three cart machines fired at the same time, and the Reel deck went into rewind. The stories are many, but the best one featured (the late) Bill Walker. Walker, who was known to slide his brief case across the counter, wear pull-over sweaters/sweat shirts, change the trash liner... Well,...he must've angered the ol' gal somehow. Toward the end of a 16-song Music Marathon, which ended just before the :50 stop-set, on song #14, Walker loaded his spots, went down the hall, past the elevators...to Pee! When he returned, "Chrissie" had fired all three of his carts right on top of song #15, violating the guarantee, and thus,...unintentionally...gave away $5-grand!
Beware CHRISTEEN!
 
Hey Scooter I think we all have had a bout with Christeen. I have had carts fire for no reason only to look out the window and see a CB'er go by running some sort of high power power amp in their car or eighteen wheeler. The station I worked at ran SMC automation for it's AM and let me tell ya if you got the right kind of charge it would erase the whole days events that were to play. Sometimes if we had a late night braves game and I had to stay there and run Sunday morning shows I would just sleep in the office that way I would already be there and ready to go. One faithful Saturday I was asleep only to be awaken by the silence alarm only problem was everything was powered down for the night so how the heck it came to life is beyond me, but it did... See Christeen was also in Camden :)... CC1
 
Stacy would have been a better name for static ghosts. It's even unisex.
Christine was a car. Made the whole story hard to follow since no cars were involved.
Or maybe like Crazee said, cars were to blame for the whole thing anyway, in a tertiary way.
I dunno. Just sayin'.
 
The one thing I have come to the conclusion is no matter if as scooter calls it "Christeen" "Goober" or whoever those were fun days in radio even at my small little station... Some of the craziest and unexplained things could happen. CC1
 
Christeen supplemental: This is for Carroll, and any other female Broadcasters/readers of this topic.
I did not assign neither the gender nor the name to the (our) described static entity. It was then GM, Charlie Cohn, who picked gender, and "Crowned" Christeen. However, in his defense, he did so because of Christeen's behavior pattern. Apparently, our two full-time female announcers were immuned to the ill pranks, and zappage, due to PMS..."Poltergeist Menstrual Syndrome". I know this because we had three (reasonably hot) female interns, and they too were safe. The two we had on the Morning Show had fake boobs, but real legs. The one that worked Middays & Afternoon Drive had real boobs, yet (true, but go figure)...a wooden leg. Guys go ahead, and insert your quick jokes, snappy one-liners, and sexual nintindos...here! However, she did bare witness to a female zapping. While she was "shadowing", one of our on-air females, the intern asked, during some
on-air bannter,"...but what about Christeen?". She no more than got her question out, when the Announcer foolishly...whipped..."Oh, we're not going to worry about her!". According to that intern, a blue spark flew from the microphone to the right nostril of said Announcer, with enough authority to get recorded on her aircheck cassette:"...worry about her!....Ooooooooh, gosh,...what the....".
Y'all think what you will, and I too did not believe the story, but for about a week, the "reddening" of that right nostril could not be denied, and make-up failed to properly conceal,...no matter how thickly applied.
 
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