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When WSJT goes to the after midnight show, a voice says it is live. Like live from where? Is this just hype and nonsense? Also, somebody is doing the weather during the night with the current temperature. Does CBS keep somebody in their house after midnight?
 
I don't know but sometimes it sounds like no one is paying attention to this station. One Sunday morning I heard an infomercial playing for 15 mins. over their regular smooth jazz programming. Both playing at the same time. I've heard two spots playing at the same time and I've heard spots start and play on top of each other at random. I've also heard a weather forecast playing in their "information block" that was from the wrong day. They've really screwed up what was once a very professional sounding live/local station.
 
Horns said:
I don't know but sometimes it sounds like no one is paying attention to this station. One Sunday morning I heard an infomercial playing for 15 mins. over their regular smooth jazz programming. Both playing at the same time. I've heard two spots playing at the same time and I've heard spots start and play on top of each other at random. I've also heard a weather forecast playing in their "information block" that was from the wrong day. They've really screwed up what was once a very professional sounding live/local station.
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Who is the program director? Is he/she the person in charge of this?
 
Ok, only us old PD's remember that your radio was on 24/7 to your station. Always kept the all night guy on his toes when you'd call at 3:30 AM. The GM or owner would read you the riot act if they caught wind of something as bad as mentioned here.
 
The overnight guy on a once great and legendary TOP 40 station used to let me in until the PD got wind of this somehow. That was my first encounter with radio.
 
I have done that a few times myself. nothing better than having attention paid to you with the orange glow of a 5kw Gates transmitter pulsing to the modulation of the music.....never got caught, but please dont ask about the nite I locked myself out and the station had dead air for 2 hours. Oh, and I also found that there is an inverse relationship to the sexiness of the caller and their looks.
 
I have but two words to add to this topic:

Don Geronimo!

You may resume...
 
I think we all had nightly visits from our radio groupies from time-to-time back in the day; especially for anyone who was a nighttime Top 40 AM jock... I plead my 5th Amendment Constitutional right to remain silent on any further details...

Mark Tillery
General Manager
WELE-AM 1380
Ormond Beach - Daytona
[email protected]
 
I owe my first paying job in radio to these shenanigans. I was the 16 y/o "gopher" hanging around the station. While the evening DJ did the horizontal bop in the transmitter room I ran the board. When he got caught and fired, the lightbulb went off over the PDs head- who was running his radio station while his DJ was otherwise indisposed?? I was summoned to his office the following day, fully expecting to be banned from the station. But he said "I understand you know how to run the evening shift" and the rest, as they say, is radio history. True story! 8)
 
Except for local drop ins from Cathy Curtis in AM drive and Alicia Kaye for two hours in late PM drive WSJT is strictly a repeater for Broadcast Architecture's Smooth Jazz Network out of LA. Except for those two small dayparts the station is nothing but a computer running a network feed. They were one of the last Smooth jazz stations to have a live, local staff but Smooth Jazz network runs as a barter. Programming 24/7 for in exchange for running their spots. Irresistable to corporate - you can cut so many humans that your audience has grown up with and grown to really care about and save a lot of money. There are only about 4 fulltime SJ stations left that are not on the network feed.

WLOQ probably won't go network because SJT's signal is so close, but they are voicetracking evenings, overnights and middays now...which they said would never happen. ::)
 
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