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Wklu's "stunt?" Please!

radioho said:
This was likely cooked up by the local staff while Russ was up north trying to get his spanish station on the air. He probably figured, after all, how bad could they screw this up?
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Considering Russ "hot-lines" a jock - even in the middle of the night - who accidentally reads the wrong liner or doesn't say "101.9 WKLU" with the proper respect and enunciation, I'd say it's pretty unlikely this whole worthless promotion was planned and executed in ANY way without his being intimately involved.
 
radioguy244 said:
Among Albro's visitors this week were Gov. Mitch Daniels, Mayor Bart Peterson, Sammy Hagar, Warren Haynes, “Chicago” guitar great Danny Seraphine, John Gillis, Cowboy Bob, Jimmy Ryser and others.
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Maybe this explains the Mayor's sluggish pole ratings? :eek:
For people in the industry, a question. Will this stunt really end up being worth anything or was it just a waste of time, money, and resources for WKLU?
 
radiowannab said:
Maybe this explains the Mayor's sluggish pole ratings? :eek:
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Surely you meant "poll"?

radiowannab said:
Will this stunt really end up being worth anything
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Russ does love on-air stunts, and it is his radio station. So the important factors to some (money, resources, and time) may not be as important to him.
 
radioguy244 said:
From today's Indianapolis Star online: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071027/LOCAL/71027006

Radio personality close to breaking record
3:14 PM October 27, 2007
Star report

In less than an hour, as long as he stays awake, WKLU-FM (101.9) radio personality Matt Albro will break a new world record for broadcasting continuously for 136 hours.

Albro started the race for the record at 12:01 a.m. Monday and will finish at 4 p.m. today, for a total of 136 hours of continuous broadcasting.

Correction: Danny was the DRUMMER (in the past sense) of Chicago.. Ooops!

Among Albro's visitors this week were Gov. Mitch Daniels, Mayor Bart Peterson, Sammy Hagar, Warren Haynes, “Chicago” guitar great Danny Seraphine, John Gillis, Cowboy Bob, Jimmy Ryser and others.
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I think - based on WKLU's rules for breaking records - I will hold my breath longer than anyone in history!

This will be easy for me to accomplish, using the WKLU rules, because I will verify the feat myself. I will make a video of me holding my breath, I will hold my breath at McDonalds, in the van, on the street, and at NO TIME will I STOP holding my breath ---

except when I need to breath. But that doesn't count, because there will be NO ONE there to verify I actually took a breath.

I will TELL you I didn't breath, and you won't really know, but no one at the Indy Star will challenge my feat, they'll take my word for it because I work in radio.

I wouldn't LIE - I'm sure Albro has had NO sleep in all this time - after all, LIBBY OR RUSS wouldn't mislead listeners.

In other words, shouldn't a 'record breaking' stunt have SOMEONE outside the station verifying he was actually 'on the air' as he stated he would be for the duration of the 'attempt?'

If this is the best you can do Oasis - you NEED to go to Fort Wayne (ie - SMALL MARKET) and be a big fish there, you are small potatoes here - this stunt is proof you HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO COMPETE AGAINST THE BIG BOYS!
 
39 Hours Short

John Walker broadcast 175 Hours on WUAG-FM in Greensboro, NC back in August.

Somebody screwed up on this promotion. The World Records take around 6 months to get updated. Google is immediate.

Google John Walker,WUAG, World Record, DJ and you will find newspaper, television, blog, and even YouTube coverage.

Sorry about that.
 
Does this mean he has to start again??? Ive heard like four different versions of the record now on this board. Can anyone make sense of who really has it?
 
radioho said:
I think - based on WKLU's rules for breaking records - I will hold my breath longer than anyone in history!
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Not that this needs verification, but I thought you already had that record??!
I declare the longest time standing on my head record of 15,072 hours but it was in the 80s, and I lost the footage.
Retroactive records should also count too! ;D

I will TELL you I didn't breath, and you won't really know, but no one at the Indy Star will challenge my feat, they'll take my word for it because I work in radio.
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Man, they trust radio types like that in Indy?
Here the paper would just print it like the radio guy said it because the paper guy was lazy.
Unless the radio guy and the paper guy were the same guy, working both parttime. :eek:
 
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