[quote name=\'Adam Nedeff\' post=\'160985\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 01:09 PM\']
[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'160802\' date=\'Aug 16 2007, 07:30 AM\']
Years ago, I worked with a disc jockey who insisted on putting the word "the" in song titles where it didn't belong. One time he talked up a song by Phil Collins and Phillip Bailey, "The (sic) Easy Lover". And he did this a lot.
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Her defining moment was when one of the other board operators recruited each employee, one at a time, to walk up to her and tell her the correct Lynard Skynard title was "Gimme Back My Bullets" (plural) and not "Gimme Back My Bullet" (singular as she had entered it). She refused to change it because she was clearly the only one there who knew the correct title.
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Why is it that a vast majority of station managers and/or program directors seemed to have gone to the "Green Acres/Hooterville School of Broadcasting -- Where right is wrong and wrong is right", while the smart people (the air talent & board ops) were paid a tenth of what they made and ultimately left the biz?
I once worked at a radio AM/FM combo that was sooo cheap... [How cheap were they???]
....All of their commercial spot carts were permanently labeled with old-fashioned color-coded Dymo labels (named A-1, B-6, D-3, etc...) because they were too cheap to pay for and type up new adhesive labels for each new spot (including their name, run-time, & outcue).
*AND* there was only one set of commercials that had to be shared by both stations, nevermind the times when the spot was to air on both stations at the same time -- one jock got to play it, the other jock got yelled at for playing it at the wrong time or out-of-logged order!
Then there was a station that would overhype their "It's the 19xx Class Reunion Weekend" or "It's an Elvis Presley Weekend" during the legal ID at the top of each hour, but wouldn't play a song from that year or from Elvis for another 20 minutes or so. (This, from the same program director who yelled at his staff about the low ratings then said "If you think you can do a better job, say so and I'll let you be the Program director!" -- and to this day, I wished I would have said something right then & there!)
