Did any of you ever host a trading post. Without the 6 second delay, they can be hilarious. That is, if you can stand to listen to all those boring calls while you wait for the wing nuts!!!
oh yes, no delay in the Cowichan Valley. I was doing a part time gig at CKAY Duncan in 1975 when Ernie Mykete owned 1500AM.
The program was called "Bargain Mart", it ran three times a day, 10:30am, 1:30pm and 7:30pm.
on my first shift, I'm sure the dude out in the radio audience was just waiting for me to take his call next, Good Afternoon, I said, "Hi! Is this Bargain FART!"
when I worked in Red Deer as a board op I use to have girls in at all times on the weekend and never got caught even did the nasty on the big board room table lol I also use to record the Sunday Night Sex show on the old DCS when it first came to the station(use to have to record it on a big reel to reel stop and play carted commercials) insert the commercials then head on down the hall and watch TV in the news room for 2 hours then head home lol good times.
I remember that the guy who worked the graveyard shift at the little store across the street from the radio station where I cut my teeth in was a big fan of Herb Alpert (Trumpet player who did these catchy up-beat tunes in the 60's). He (my friend) was disgusted when our station switched from a mix format to all country. I would get off at midnight and flip the switches to a satalite program called Cryin Lovin or Leavin and proceed to the local bar for a few coctails. Then when the bar closed, I'd walk home which involved walking past the station. To please my friend, I would pop back into the control room, fade out whatever crappy song was being played and crash into one of Herb's many hits. I can't remember the names of the songs but it was kind of fun to get away with something (even if almost nobody heard it). My friend at the store loved it!!!
I happen to be one of those guys on the air after Cryin', lovin' or leavin.
Sorry Tommy D. The show was fine but the music was terrible. I like some (maybe 10 to 20%) country music but these were the same 20 or 30 songs over and over again. Give the people what they ask for I guess. Still enjoying this thread. Keep those funny stories coming folks. Glad I wasn't the only bad arse.
Here's a story for ya... CJNB North Battleford, in the early 80's... one of our sponsors was the local drive-in theatre, and the owner was known for (I am not making this up) his pet Canada Goose. He would actually walk this goose downtown on a leash. So as a way to attract attention to the ad, we would play a cart with the sound of a goose honking just ahead of reading the live ad telling people what movie was at the drive-in that weekend. No explanation, just "honk honk" and "This weekend at the <whatever> Drive-In, Footloose..." Well, our evening guy (who'd been there forever) decided this was too good a prank to pass up. He starts reading the copy... you hear the honking in the background... and he says "Excuse me, one moment..." and you then heard the unmistakable sound of a goose being strangled. He then came back to the mic and continued as if nothing had happened.
Well, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... so over the next few days, that poor goose died in several different ways. (I seem to recall I used machine gun fire on my shift.) Finally, it all ended after one of the oddest memos ever was tacked up on the control room door. It just said "Please stop killing the goose."
And that's why we all recall the old days of radio with such fondness... it was *creative*. Try and find that on today's micro-managed frequencies...
Amen Dave!!! Radio was way better when each station was owned by a local family!!! If Rogers, Newcap, Standard and Corus had owned those stations 2o years earlier, none of these stories would have happened. I think you could publish a book of these stories if enough people were willing to share them.
The goose story made me laugh, and triggered a few good memories. I was working with a guy named Steve Scott, (Steve Philpott) at CJUP in the mid 80's, and he was doing a thing at night called "Scott's Triva". He'd produced a little intro for it, and I just couldn't resist. I yanked out his intro cart, took off the label, and put it onto a new cart. That night, when he said, "it's time for Scott's Triva", and hit the intro, he was introduced by a pack of yappy dogs. Stopped him cold in his tracks. I was at home pissing myself. The next night, knowing he'd fall for it again, I replaced the dogs with honking geese. By the third night, I knew he'd catch on. So, I put two 30's on the cart. Sure enough, he played the intro in cue, just to make sure I hadn't screwed him again. Then he went live. Out came a bunch of cows. Again, I was at home, stomach in pain from laughing, tears running down my cheeks. I knew I couldn't get him a third time, so I took a few days off, and hit him one last time the following week with a flock of ducks. Just thinking about those night brings back a ton of great 'old memories. Keep 'em coming.
Back in my CKQR Castlegar days (talking mid-80s here), we had our morning man arrested on the air for an outstanding "matter" from when he lived in the Bulkley Valley. Even had a local member of the constabulary (complete with a poker face) take him away in cuffs during a break. His wife (who was listening at home at the time) went through the roof with fear/anger, etc.
Another time we nailed him going into the 8am sports. The sports announcer had FULL control over his voicers and actualities in the booth back in the day through the use of two cassette players. As the sports guy is launching into his lead story, he hits a cassette which had a phone quality clip of one of our part-time staff in her best seductive tone saying how she's so lonely and asking the morning man why he hasn't returned her calls. The morning man was HELPLESS to stop the clip. The sports guy comes back on and chided our morning man for taking personal calls live on the air. Again his wife was livid! (OK we got caught on THAT one, but it was still funny.)
Sorry Tommy D. The show was fine but the music was terrible. I like some (maybe 10 to 20%) country music but these were the same 20 or 30 songs over and over again. Give the people what they ask for I guess. Still enjoying this thread. Keep those funny stories coming folks. Glad I wasn't the only bad arse.
That was when "achy breaky heart" broke.
3 plays in a 6 hour shift.
Anyway I digress. I think the best gig we ever pulled in Hope was the one time every year we let the local Rotary Club take over the airwaves. We'd have a "green room" at a local motel next door and the members would have a chance to "limber up" before they took to the air. Once we handed a guy a lost and found note for a pair of men's bikini briefs that had gone missing the night before at the local lake. He proceeded to read cold not noticing that the phone number was his. Only after he repeated it three times and heard through the studio door the laughter behind the scenes, did he realize what he had read. His live reaction was equally hilarious and, shall we say, spontaneous.
OMG, Bruce... loved that story. I can just imagine that one happening. Wish I'd have had the cojones to pull that on someone...
Another CJNB story... we had an evening show once a week of classical music, a local guy (not with the station) put it together as a voice track on reel-to-reel and then sent that over with a script and a stack of records. (You remember records, right?) So I'm running the show, I come out of his voice intro with the standard CBC two-second pause... then to the record. I was talking on the phone at the time, so I reached over and took the last record off, put it away... then took the playing record off, put it away... talked for a while... looked at the meter, and it's laying there like a dead fish. Yup. Dead air, at least five minutes of it. So (thinking quickly) I just put that album back and dropped the needle right in the middle of what *should* have been playing. Of course, I got a call a few minutes later - from the guy that voiced it - I told him "the transmitter must have overheated" (it had been doing that all summer, actually).
Funny thing is - he was the only person that complained. Or noticed.
On Swap Shop in Weyburn Sask., lady called in to sell a beautiful like new suit. I asked her why she was selling it if it was so new. She told me that it was her husband's and he just died the day before. Oops.
when I worked in Red Deer as a board op I use to have girls in at all times on the weekend and never got caught even did the nasty on the big board room table lol I also use to record the Sunday Night Sex show on the old DCS when it first came to the station(use to have to record it on a big reel to reel stop and play carted commercials) insert the commercials then head on down the hall and watch TV in the news room for 2 hours then head home lol good times.
I think getting nookie on the job is almost a prerequesite. Especially on those weekend or all-night shows.
I also took the news vehicle for a few nights on the town back in the day.
my days on college radio were the best, I rememember once calling a local DJ on the air at another station, live to air from our station as he proceeded to open up about his life/girls he's nailed over the past little bit.
Bruce Richie's prank on a co-worker reminded me of something I did to one of my co-workers. I think our station was the last in Canada to ban spoking in the control room so when I started my 6PM show the air was practically blue from the drive guy's constant puffing. I should admit that I used to smoke myself but felt I owed it to the athsmatics in the building (there were 2) to do so outside. Our drive guy used to keep his smokes in the fridge so I dipped the smokable part of the cig (about 3 quarters of the tabaco part) in the lighter fluid. A little dangerous and quite childish I admit but at least I got to start one show without barffing up a lung. I heard he was furious but if it helps any of you smokers who may be offended by my actions, he was not well liked by any of the staff or listeners.
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