[BC] Scary listeners

[Bailey, Scott]

I had this guy that it turned in to a "harassment" situation calling the
station, claiming to be a "programming consultant.  He said his name was
Jim Apple and he had started an Oldies Radio Format, running this out of
his apartment in East Nashville.
At first, I tried to be nice to him over the phone, telling him that I
was an "Oldies Channel/Westwood One" Affiliate, and had been since 1995,
and I wasn't interested in speaking with him further on what he wanted
to do. Then, things turned ugly. He said he was coming to the station,
and was to take over for a week or two to show me how to run my station.
I called my lawyer, had a letter sent to him that he was to stay away
from me and my property, or we would file criminal charges against him
in Sumner County Court. I had already contacted the sheriff's dept. and
file a warrant for his arrest for harassment. When he found out what I
was doing to make him leave me and the station alone, that shut him up
for good and never heard from him again!

Oh warning to all, if you get a call from this Jim Apple guy, claiming
to be an Oldies Programming Consultant....beware!  This man is sick and
has some sort of mental problem!

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Mark W. Croom
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:49 AM
To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [BC] Scary listeners

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. 


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