Wednesday, July 02, 2003
All kinds of havoc yesterday with the Strom Thurmond funeral on our station...we lost power about 20-minutes into the service and were off the air for about 2-hours. Goodbye listeners. I wonder sometimes how long people listen to static before they choose to either turn off the radio or switch to another station. Are there those loyalists who stay with it, thinking that any minute now it'll come back?
Reminds me of a funny story...a number of years ago I was at a station that lost power because of a heavy storm. I had a sales person call the station concerned that her client's commercials weren't running. I calmly explained to her that we were without power at the moment and we would make the commercials good by positioning them later in the day and bonus them some freebies. She actually wanted me to make an announcement that we were without power (and so were several areas of the city) on the radio. I told her we couldn't do that. She was exasperated and screamed at me that I was getting paid to air her commercials and I wouldn't help her with a simple request to help her out (and her client). Getting increasingly miffed, I told her to turn the station on in her car...real loud...and I told her to stay on the phone. I would yell into the microphone her announcement.
After a couple of seconds, I yelled, "(sales person's name) is a stupid bitch! She probably would get more sales if she lowered her neckline a little more and gave hummers to new clients. She doesn't realize that without power WE CAN'T BROADCAST!!!"
She hung up.
Oh, well. Ann Coulter on the show today. Should be a good one.
Reminds me of a funny story...a number of years ago I was at a station that lost power because of a heavy storm. I had a sales person call the station concerned that her client's commercials weren't running. I calmly explained to her that we were without power at the moment and we would make the commercials good by positioning them later in the day and bonus them some freebies. She actually wanted me to make an announcement that we were without power (and so were several areas of the city) on the radio. I told her we couldn't do that. She was exasperated and screamed at me that I was getting paid to air her commercials and I wouldn't help her with a simple request to help her out (and her client). Getting increasingly miffed, I told her to turn the station on in her car...real loud...and I told her to stay on the phone. I would yell into the microphone her announcement.
After a couple of seconds, I yelled, "(sales person's name) is a stupid bitch! She probably would get more sales if she lowered her neckline a little more and gave hummers to new clients. She doesn't realize that without power WE CAN'T BROADCAST!!!"
She hung up.
Oh, well. Ann Coulter on the show today. Should be a good one.
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