Radio Blog

Friday 3 February 2012 - Kids and live broadcasting is a bad mix, we had a group of kids and teachers in here doing some promo work for an upcoming bike safety week, these kids were full of beans, running up and down the studio, laughing, giggling and shouting but as soon as you get them behind a microphone they freeze up and give one word answers only. It ended up being me and one of the teachers doing the talking even though the kids had a full skit written up and had been practicing it all week. But the worst came when we went to take some photos and upon leaving the studio one of the kids hit the switch and we broadcast a full 12 minutes of an empty studio, which doesnt sound to bad but its when you try and squeeze the ads that were in that 12 minutes back into the rest of the day is when the trouble starts.

Wednesday 1 February 2012 - Almost had an advertiser pull their contract today, it seems by chance him and his wife he were driving home from the cinemas when one of his advertisements for garage doors came on followed by the night DJs own choice of song (which he is not supposed to do) which had more F-bombs in it than that rental car scene off Planes Trains and Automobiles. I had to make several apologies to him but it wasnt until I promised Ill play a Neil Diamond song every lunchtime for the whole week that hed keep the contract, bah. Im going over ideas on what to do with the night DJ gets in, Im tossing up between getting him tar and feathered and driving him through town on the back of my truck for a bit of promo or getting him to attend a womans rights evening asking for the woman to give the vote back to men while doing a live broadcast. Hmm I might just go with tar and feathering as I fear for my own safety when I get home to my wife.

Monday 30 January 2012 - Im just fed up with DJs thinking they call the shots around here and why does every DJ think there idea for running a radio station is better than everything else and has never been tried before. I mean dont you think all of these companies putting millions into research and market tests would have thought of that already? If someone truly has something different that gains ratings and listeners I challenge them to get underway, because I havent seen it for a while and the industry needs it.