For most of the time Radio has been in existence there has been a steady line of cocaine coming into the station either tucked inside the 45’s in the 1950’s and 60’s, or in the 80’s while you were waiting for Debbie Gibson to play your local mall there were buckets of the stuff just [...]
Archive for April, 2008
20) Adderall
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
19) Throwing Their “Hat” Into the Ring
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If there is one thing that is certainly not in short supply in happy radio land, it is self-inflated ego that gives way to unusually bad career moves in hopes of getting a “gig” in that sweet larger, or top 50, market.
You see a Radio Person will see that a station in, let’s say, Chicago [...]
18) 12+
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Nothing sets the Radio world on fire than the time of year when “books” are coming out. These are the times of year when a company called Arbitron spins that wheel from The Price is Right and the wheel from Wheel of Fortune while burning the wings of butterflies to come up with your “rating” [...]
17) Perez Hilton
Posted in Uncategorized on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I mean he is gay, he spends most of the day drawing penises, semen, or naughty words on celebrities (which is something Radio People also enjoy…Photoshop, HELLO), and on May 5th he gets his own radio show that airs twice daily and is 3 minutes long, oh and did I mention he is gay? Radio [...]
16) Value Added
Posted in DJs, tagged sales people on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Value Added is basically the real world equivalent of paying for the burger and getting the fries and drink for free, what you may call a “value meal” or #7 with a Coke. But in the case of Radio People, unlike their fast food brethren, they do this not so that they can spiff the [...]
15) Golf Shirts
Posted in DJs, tagged Clothing on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Basketball and football players have their jerseys, hockey players have their famed sweaters, but Radio People suit up everyday in their own way, the radio station polo shirt. To be fair this isn’t the first official uniform of the radio person, before the golf shirt it was the windbreaker, and before that the tie-die T-shirt, and I [...]
14) The Spring Book
Posted in Uncategorized on April 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today marks the start of the only real “official” Radio Person holiday, The Spring Book. For a Radio Person the Spring Book is like Chanukah except longer and has less candles or any religious connotation. The Spring Book is when Radio People drastically change everything they are doing in order to make a stellar impression [...]
13) Outback
Posted in Uncategorized on April 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Outside of a dark production studio or dank, smelly on-air studio, a Radio Person feels most at home at Outback Steakhouse it is risqué since its foreign but accessible since they speak English in Australia)
When Outback Steakhouse was founded in 1998 in Tampa, FL few knew what a mark it would leave on the [...]
12) Facial Hair
Posted in DJs, hair on April 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
To a Radio Person, facial hair is the sign of a true journeyman or at the very least a morning show guy. Because Radio People tend to meet two types of listeners and they need to be prepared for both; those they can win over with their gallery of people they met that is stored [...]
