You know you're an aging radio guy when....

[faderraider]

And the owner pulled an airshift!

 

[SheaTheDJ]

* When static electricity set off all the cart decks (during a stop set) and you could talk up the recycle of at least one of them and start over without ever missing a beat.
* When the station owner personally makes an appearence in the studio to yank whatever you're playing mid-song because he doesn't like it.
*When you can pitch-up a song up to make it time out to the top of the hour network news cast (i personally can't do this, but I've seen it done).

 

[AKLes]

When you could calculate backtiming in your head.


And when kids working in McDonald's knew how to make change without the register having to calculate it for them. Nothing to do with radio but a sure sign of age.

 

[broken headphones]

....when radio made an "event" out of a remote broadcast and actually did the "broadcast" with real radio hook ups,engineer and all and not a "taped" cheesy sounding cell phone call, to be played back in a stop set. Actually live and with live , on the spot interviews, not knowing ahead of time what may come out of the interviewees mouth,. Ahh, good ol' seat O' the pants broadcasting.........working without a net.

 

[Tom Wells]

When you can remember reading incoming news live at 45.5 baud on the teletypes.
Live on the wire! Phew! It seemed so fast then.

...when you can remember putting the carriage-return strap back on the teletype.

 

[cyberdad]

Charlie Tuna was a drive time jock on KOMA.

 

[wknd92]

When you were :53 seconds into commerical copy voice over and messed up, started the last sentence over to get the read of the last 7 seconds and had to break out the grease pencil & razor blade and had to splice tape to fix it

Throw on Stairway to Heaven or Paradise by the Dashboardlight if you had to go and it was going to be a while!