[BC] It wasn't the President this time.

[Bernie Courtney]

much along the same lines I know of a person who used to do remotes who took
part in bashing his boss with the person back at the studio running the
board.

...only problem-- neither realised he was doing late night maint. in Master
control and had the remote feed dialed up on the monitors in MCR and heard
the entire conversation.  He wasn't around for much longer after that :-)

b

On 7/27/06, Jerry Mathis <thebeaver32 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/27/06, Reader <reader at oldradio.com> wrote:
> >
> > Via Shoptalk:
> > Apparently he missed the memo to consider all mics "open and live."
> >
> >
> > By <http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1319629&secid=1>Andrew Wineke
> > THE GAZETTE
> >
> > KRDO/Channel 13 meteorologist Matt Meister was suspended Wednesday
> > after a live microphone caught him using obscenities.
> >
> > Meister had just done a weather update Tuesday night during a
> > commercial break when his voice was heard over an episode of
> > "According to Jim," an ABC sitcom, using foul language to complain
> > about an earlier audio problem.
> >
> > Meister apologized for the incident during the station's 10 p.m.
> > newscast and said he would accept the consequences of his actions.
> >
> > KRDO general manager Neil Klockziem read a statement on the station's
> > 5:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts on Wednesday, saying Meister would be
> > suspended while the incident is investigated. Former KRDO
> > meteorologist Mark Nelson filled in for Meister on Wednesday.
> >
> > "His use of vulgar language even when he thought his mike was turned
> > off was contrary to station policy and unacceptable," Klockziem said
> > on the newscast. "He has been suspended without pay while we review
> > the full details of what happened last evening."
> >
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>
>
> I learned a LONG time ago, in a competetive market, to never say anything
> near a microphone you wouldn't want broadcast over the evening news. Our
> competition monitored our Marti remote channel on a scanner, and anything
> we
> said, not only during remote breaks, but in between, was heard by them. As
> I
> was doing Engineering for both stations, I learned to keep my mouth shut.
>
> A lesson that's hard to master, as my mouth STILL gets me into trouble
> occasionally  :)
>
> --
> JM
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