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This is great stuff to read

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djmaine

I wish I had found this site much sooner!

Seeing a bunch of the old names, reliving the memories of how wacky Maine radio is is fun!

I had been in radio in Portland from 1986 until 1998 (mostly part-time gigs) when I realized I was never going to make a dime in radio without working 80 hours a week. Not my bag. In 1998, I took up mobile DJing and did pretty well before I left Maine for Florida in 2010.

Deregulation really ruined radio, especially in Maine. I miss piling carts on top of another and making sure that "Fred" would play correctly through the night.

There's something about radio that is hard to put into words. I was board-oping Game 6 of the 86 World Series when Buckner...well...you know...and in 1989 when the earthquake in San Francisco occured.

The whizz of the old dot-matrix printers sending AP Urgents and other news stories. There was nothing like it.

I sometimes really miss the old days. I never had enough talent to be a true Full-Time on-air DJ. I had my moments, but none people remember (Thank God!) except that I was a pest.

Great to see this forum. I will check in on occassion to read the Maine stories. Thanks!

Jim Casey
Too many stations to mention (for fired too many times)
 
Welcome, Jim. Lots of great info, anecdotes, and current news here. I have been out of the biz for 2 1/2 years but still check in several times a week.

And you're right. They're called 'the good old days' for a reason.
 
Ahhh the Good old days......days of multiply cuts on your fingers from editing carts not fully cued and no Playlists! Remotes at events like Deering Oaks Family Festival where all the radio stations were more or less in one cluster. And if one station was giving away balloons with their logos on them the other station would slap a bumper sticker over the logo printed balloon. The good old days when pulling radio pranks were funny and harmless. And if you were offend by a song cause of the words you could make one call to a program director and the song was pulled right them (Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax) and there and not buried on the overnight to please a label! Today most of these kids who were lucky if they were a twinkle in their fathers eye back in the day, don't know how to edit without a mouse or know the pain of editing. They didn't know how to create reverb by using the board! They for the most part are recycling the pranks we did back in the day with their own little twist. Deering Oaks Family fest was moved to the parking lot of the overflow parking at the mall and them just faded away in time....And try to get a song pulled now is like a act of congress! They won't pull it.....they edit it or get the "Radio Edit" which still has hints of the bad parts of the song still in it! It used to take talent to be a music director.....Its still does but they education is different now....back then you used to have to have a little music exp.....now you just to have experience kissing the labels ass!!
 
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