Top 10 Things You No Longer Hear at Radio Stations

[Nick Gerard]

10) Welcome to the staff – be sure to hang your third up there on the wall with the others.

9) Can you drive over to the ad agency and pick up that spot that starts tomorrow?

8) Man, all those guys in the major markets sound great!

7) Can I bum a cigarette?

6) Better re-do that spot, Carl – I think you recorded over a splice.

5) Let’s see…the record is 3:47, plus 10 seconds for the ID…so I gotta roll it at 56:03.

4) Check it out! Slide pots!

3) I don’t have time to change the reels on the FM! I’m tryin’ to do a show here!

2) Have you heard the new Midnight - 6 guy? He’s fantastic!

....and the Number One Thing You No Longer Hear at Radio Stations:

1) These Fidelipacs suck!


Nick Seneca

 

[JustPastBuffalo]

A good list, for sure Nick. And these days, Profit Sharing is more likely to mean four stations are working off one server using the same automation platform.

 

[gr8oldies]

Clear the wire. News on this nail, sports on this one and put the farm markets in the Farm Director's mailbox.

 

[Mike Sheridan]

A great list!

I have one more item (drum roll)....cue burn!

 

[Yeziknoradio]

??? Is there a radio station in Buffalo today that goes right to a song immediately after news?

(ie "Right now it's 61...IN...BUFFALO!" then it would go right to a song)

 

[w9wi]

"It's midnight. WBEN-FM now reaches the end of the broadcast day. Please join us again at 6:00 tomorrow morning for more of the finest in music and information. Until then, this is WBEN-FM, Buffalo, signing off. Good night." (hisssssssss)

 

[SirRoxalot]

The "perfect" skip of a CD.

 

[Radknowski]

Pickering, Grado, Stanton & Shure (no, not attorneys at law) more like "need a new stylus for turntable 2."

 

[SirRoxalot]

"Christmas Bonus".

 

[Element9]

Pull music from the front of the card file and file your albums in the right category.

 

[JimMcGrath]

You have a dime to put on the tonearm?

 

[chas108]

Can you get me some long Q-Tips and alcohol? These cart heads are DIRTY!

 

[average_listener]

At a Gordon Brown station: "Watch the modulation! We don't have a limiter."

 

[chas108]

At a Gordon Brown station: "Watch the modulation! We don't have a limiter."

That was at my first station - WKVT-AM/Brattleboro VT in 1973.

CBS affiliate...had to learn the old Net Alert system and was told in case of a "Net Alert 9" (national emergency) to sign the station off and hide under the console.

My first airshift...16 years old, nervous as can be but with visions of someday becoming the next Jack Armstrong or Debaser while working part-time at a tiny MOR station in an unrated market...I'm playing a long-forgotten Fifth Dimension 45 at 33 RPM...pinned the meter and heard alarms going off! We used the program monitor in the studio - for some reason we didn't monitor on-air signal - so I didn't realize right away what I'd done...I thought it was a CBS Net Alert 9 and the world was coming to an end...checking the meters and coming to the realization that I'd knocked the station off the air I tried to remember how to bring it back up but ended up having to call the GM who was quick to show his displeasure as he came in to put the transmitter on...

 

[Uncle Joe]

10. The PD saying "Nice Job"

9. Book the conference room for a staff meeting just for radio news reporters & anchors.

8. And your raise this year is ...........

7. This year's Christmas party will be held at ......... Open bar included.

6. The station isn't for sale.

5. I need a razor blade to edit this tape.

4. We need to hire more announcers.

3. How many years of experience do you have?

2. This year's budget includes promotion advertising for the station.

1. So you been with the station 20 years?

 

[JustPastBuffalo]

Want to go to lunch? Insert name , the insert label record guy is buying.

 

[therealjm12]

The sales dept. doesn't run this station. The P. D. does!

 

[chas108]

We got a new Revox! And an ITC 99B!

 

[SirRoxalot]

Cassette dubs. I HATE making cassette dubs.

 

[Mark Giardina]

10. The hell with cue-cards; just go on the air and be yourself.
9. Time now for local news from our 24 hour radio news department.
8. The format is just fine.
7. I rather have quality programming than ratings.
6. Live announcers in studio after 10 am.
5. PD's that actually program a station instead of an outside consultant.
4. A GM or station owner who actually remembers your name.
3. Talk show hosts without a political agenda.
2. Let's add more music to the rotation. The audience might enjoy that.
1. Mark Giardina reporting the news on the radio anymore. ;D