[BC] Scary listeners

[Mike McCarthy]

When one station signed on under new ownership, they changed everything, 
including the phone numbers.  They didn't want anything to do with the 
prior station's management or format. (Trust me...that was the right thing 
to do...) Dumb manager gets a new phone for the TX at my request.  But 
didn't change the name of the listing for the TX phone and it got published 
by mistake.  So anyone calling 411 for the old station got the new TX phone 
# and the usual greeting.

It took a few days of me asking "Why can't I get into the TX...line 
busy?"  Went out there, answered a couple IRATE callers, then called the 
phone company myself and had the number changed AGAIN to something which NO 
ONE would figure is even a radio station TX site.

While at the site one day a few weeks later, a car drove up.  A couple 
people got out and wanted to know what happened to "their" station.  They 
were fairly reasonable folks and the conversation was pleasant.  But they 
also commented there were some extreme listeners who were out their minds 
psychotic when the format went away.  (Heavy metal to Christian 
Contemporary and preaching.)

YIKES....

MM

At 11:18 PM 8/30/2006 -0400, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote
>In a message dated 08/30/2006 7:10:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>jjohnson at goodnews.net writes:
>
> > Which is the reason, of course, few sites are marked with call letters.
> >
> >  Jeff.Johnson at goodnews.net,CSRE
> >  RFPROOF.COM
>
>Right! This is also why it is never a good idea to have your TX remote
>control box answer with "Please enter password." That's an open invite to 
>hack it.
>Ours just says "This is WFIF. Please call 878-5915. Thank you." It says it
>twice, then hangs up. Of course, it's actually listening for the proper DTMF
>codes, but a random caller would never know that.
>
>Willie...
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