WGVM-Another Steve Shelton disaster

[CatFM]

Some station owners and managers get hooked on trade the same way some people get hooked on drugs. It's a hard habit to break. I worked for a station in Miss. that must have had very little cash flow because almost everything was done in trade, right down to gas for the station van. Our control room used to have white walls at one time, but everything had turned a gross shade of yellow from so many people smoking in there through the years. I was one of two people on the air then who didn't smoke. The management/ownership of the station was too cheap to have the control room repainted, so we offered to do it on our own time for free. Yes, they even traded out the paint and brushes through a hardware store. From what I heard the owner even had a trade for his groceries. When I first went to work there and was searching for an apartment, they traded a room for me at the Holiday Inn. From what we could tell, if it couldn't be done through trade, they wouldn't do it. We wondered where they got the money to pay us since so little cash seemed to go through there, but at least we were paid on time and the checks never bounced.

 

[mikl73]

That sounds like a station I worked for. I repainted the yellowed tiles on the walls myself though since I spent so much time there.

 

[nuffsaid]

Think over the years we have all done some painting, janitorial work, etc. at some of the small stations we worked for in the year days. Most likely made up better people later in life.