[BC] Scary listeners

[Mark W. Croom]

The religious stations I've worked for seem to have a smaller proportion of 
really psychotic types who go crazy calling and hanging around the station 
and making the female employees feel threatened, but we do get a fair number 
of calls from people who are sure they could program the station way better 
than we do. Maybe this is more common in mainstream radio than I perceive it 
to be, but when I have worked at Country music stations I just don't 
remember that happening as much as I have in Christian radio. It seems like 
we also get a lot of angry calls from people over hot-button issues that 
their pastors or favorite TV preacher have programmed into them and someone 
on our station presents the "wrong" way. The excoriate us (in the love of 
Jesus, of course) for missing something that is perfectly obvious to them 
(though it's often hogwash when evaluated from an orthodox viewpoint).

Mark
MN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting at gmail.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [BC] Scary listeners


> So far, I've been lucky enough to work for stations that never really had 
> any trouble with listeners.
>
> Paul B. Walker, Jr.
> Dover, New Hampshire
> <http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com>www.walkerbroadcasting.com
>
>
>
> On 8/30/06, Bailey, Scott 
> <<mailto:sbailey at nespower.com>sbailey at nespower.com> wrote:
> I have found it doesn't matter what format the station is, it is what
> part of town the transmitter site is.  There was an AM
> studio/transmitter site that had to move, due to the neighborhood had
> gotten so bad with shootings, muggings, rape, etc.