Nichollsradio
Registered: 02/01/04
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Did you ever have unruly , wild , strange , or maybe even questionable people visit your radio station ?
Two that come to mind :
A local station was doing a "Lunch In A Limo" promotion . The station would escort the winner and a certain number of guest in a limo to a fancy resturant . On one such trip , it was a bunch of young girls who all worked in an office together and had a little too much to drink at lunch . They get back to the station and end up running all over the station screaming and laughing and running up and down the halls .
Another station had fired a troublesom DJ . About a month later , some station employees are standing outside the station , and they see three big buses pull up in the station parking lots and out come this massive sea of school kids inundating the station building. The station knew nothing about it . When they asked the woman who they arranged the visit with , she said the name of the jock they had fired . He never bothered to tell the station .
Any "strange visitors" ever come to your station ?
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arclight
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bazzwell
Registered: 12/06/04
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Well, unexpected perhaps. "Fabian" called one day and said he needed to cut a spot at our station for his upcoming holiday show in Vegas. The station was in southwestern Pennsylvania and he did live just a few miles away but we still thought it was somebody having a laugh. We said sure, an hour later, in comes Fabian.
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Unclebob
Registered: 11/30/04
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Not visitors, so much, but some strange phone calls. It was 1961 in Long Beach on a remote broadcast over KGER and a country show, we got a call from a guy who said he was George Morgan. Since our show ran from midnight to 5 a.m. (we covered most of the west coast), it was not usual to get promotional calls from recording artists.
But I played along to see what his pitch was. (Now remember that George Morgan had many country hits in the 50s. Pretty songs like Room Full of Roses, and Candy Kisses, Almost, etc. I knew his music and liked it, but I didn't think it was really him. Then he told me about his new record. When he said the title I almost cracked up, but I didn't let on I thought he was a fake, because he said "Little Green Men." I thought I had been had, but I was polite and told him I would watch for it.
| 02/1961 | SP COLUMBIA 4-41957 (US) | Only One Minute More / Little Green Men |
Guess what. It was George Morgan. By the way his Jan. 1960 hit called "You're The Only Good Thing" was first released as a country record, but Columbia pulled that version and recut it as a pop arrangment.
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musicprof
Registered: 09/04/04
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(tastelessness alert)
Sometime around the mid-90s while chatting one day in the WGAY/WWRC lobby of the World Building in DC (actually Silver Spring, MD), a few of us noticed through the glass windows up front that a somewhat unkempt and pathetic-looking soul had emerged from the elevator and was standing just outside the lobby door.
As we wondered why a seemingly homeless man would come to visit us, he calmly removed his jacket (he wore no shirt underneath), spread it out on the floor at his feet, dropped trou, and proceeded to take a dump onto his jacket....which he then wrapped up, put under his arm, and carried with him back into the elevator and out of our lives.
A former air talent with an axe to grind? A listener upset at the FM format change from B/EZ to AC? A fan of our AM morning man Morton Downey Jr? We never did figure that one out :-)
Bob M
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Pat
Registered: 02/01/04
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Had I been the on-air DJ at the time...
I'd have followed that one up by playing The Load Out/Stay by Jackson Browne.
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Nichollsradio
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A program director of a local R&B station happened to turn on his station late one Saturday night and instead of hearing his normal format , the station was tracking a Frankie Beverly and Maze LP . He goes to the station to investigate and finds a strange woman sitting in the DJ chair . When he asks what she was doing there and where the regular DJ was . She said "He went off with my friend and told me to start this record when that record runs out" . So the PD searches the station and finds the DJ and the "friend" in a , let's say , compromising position . He fires the DJ on the spot and kicks everybody out of the station and finished the shift himself .
A friend of mine was PD of a small station that operated out of a trailer . He would run a syndicated show on Saturday night . The show came in on records , so he had to hire a guy to run the show . Over the next few weeks , the PD noticed a lot dead air on the station while the show was on the air. Finally one Saturday night , he drives to the station and sees about twenty cars parked there , he goes in and is met by a bunch of slightly drunk strangers .It turned out the guy was using the place for his personal "Party Space" on Saturday nights When the PD asks where the employee is , they say "He went out to get some more beer ". The PD kicks everyone out of the trailer . The guy gets back and sees the parking lot is empty , goes in and is met by the PD who fires him and finishes the shift .
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bazzwell
Registered: 12/06/04
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There was the time the Sunday evening polka guy brought a whole band in, about twenty or so people, band and fans from the just finished set at the Polish club. I was gm at the time and heard this strange voice doing the weather so thought a visit might be worth it.
On the scene was the band, in full swing with live music, in a twenty by twenty room. Beer bottles everywhere, pizza boxes, drunken fans going in and out, chaos at all points, except, they were on the air. Everybody but the on duty host that is. Turns out he was too far in his cups to be more than an onlooker so the trumpet player took over. Luckily he knew radio so I pretty much left them alone rather than start a fight between me and twenty or more drunken polka nuts. It wasn't per FCC rules of course but they kept it clean and ended on time.
Radio, what a business.
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Nichollsradio
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One night I was at a station I was doing P/T work at puttering around in the production room working on some personal projects while the night girl , one of my best friends , was on the air doing her normal evening shift . Now , the door to the office suite we had was supposed to be locked at night , and the office building we were in was locked at 7:00p . Around 8:30p, this listener the night girl couldn't stand just walks in the station . This was an older guy who had been calling her and showing up at a lot of her station appearances . Well, of course she freaked out at him actually being IN THE STATION WITH HER . It turned out the stupid cleaning crew let him in the building , and had also forgot to lock the station office door . She comes in the production room and tells me what's going on , totally freaked . So , I come out and intruduce myself to this guy . By this time he and I are in adjecent office next to the air studio . I thought "How can I make this guy leave? ". I then remember that I can be a big "talker" if I wanted to , and I did have a reputation as kind of a Know it All "Cliff Claven" type , and I was known to go on and on about a subject . So I knew what I had to do . I began talking to him non stop about anything and everything I could think of and didn't shut up . I KNEW he was waiting for a chance to be alone with my friend , so I kept it up . At one point she went to the break room to get a drink , and he followed her , and I followed him , still talking non stop . By about 9:30 he had pretty much figured out I wasn't gonna shut up and leave , which means he would have no chance of being alone with her , so he finally left in frustration . One of the few times my big mouth saved the day . |
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michaelhagerty
Registered: 08/21/09
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I had two celebrity walk-ins at KIBS, Bishop, California....Tanya Tucker before she became famous and Art and Dottie Todd (Chanson D'Amour) well after.
But for the wildest...well, there were two. At KIBS, when an extremely inebriated gentleman wandered into the building one Saturday night when 17 year old me was the only guy there. He came into the studio and asked if I'd play Redbone's "The Witch Queen of New Orleans". I said I'd try to get it on for him later. He pulled up his shirt and showed me the gun in his waistband. And the "instant request" was born. The good news is that he only wanted to hear it 7 times in a row.
And the other was my first shift at KSLY, San Luis Obispo...breaking in on an overnight shift, the jock who was training me decided to see if I could be rattled ( I was 17 and it was my second gig)...so just as I was about to open the mic for the top of the hour ID, he ushered in a beautiful blonde Cal Poly co-ed in a bathrobe, who walked around the console in front of me, waited until I started talking, then ditched the robe and streaked the control room.
I think I said "glad to be here." A lot.
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Nichollsradio
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I mentioned this on another thread a few years ago . My former co-worker Lark Logan was on the air late one night at Kiss-FM in Boston around 1981 and had a visitor who was a struggling female singer from NYC who was shopping her demo around and wanted to get it played on Kiss-FM . The struggling singer was an unknown Madonna .
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