[BC] Last Stands

[Chris Clark]

When a local radio station changed formats in the mid-80's, they didn't even
give them a chance. The morning crew was called to a mandatory staff
meeting, and the lead jockey put on a long vinyl to cover his time. When
they got to the meeting, they were told pretty plainly that the format was
changing and that as of that morning, they were all let go. The lead jokcey
started to head back to the studio saying "I'll be right back, I've gotta go
put another song on" and was told that it was already taken care of.
Talk about your on-the-fly format changes...

In a bit of irony, the format change failed miserably, and they ended up
returning to the original format.

On 1/6/06, Bill Croghan <loteng at lvradio.com> wrote:
>
>         Not a last stand, but to implement a format change a few years
> back
> an AM station I was working at in Tucson started playing Twist and Shout
> from Friday 6 PM until Monday 5 AM.  No explanation, nothing other than
> required legal ID's, just continuous Twist and Shout.  We were all sworn
> to
> secrecy.  When a listener called our sister FM station to try to find out
> why, the part time jock on duty refused to tell with the comment "what can
> you do when they've got a gun to your head."  Listener called police, they
> activated SWAT and when the back door bell rang, the PD ended up spread
> eagled to the wall with an M16 in his back and the station was rapidly
> searched and cleared.  We had to tell the Police department what and why,
> but still kept it secret from the public.
>
> Bill
>
> Bill Croghan CPBE WB?KSW
> Chief Engineer,
> KOMP/KXPT/KENO/KBAD
> Lotus Broadcasting
> Las Vegas, NV
> Email to loteng (at) lvradio.com
> Phone 702-315-3030
> Fax      702-876-6685
>
>
>
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:broadcast-
> >bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Paul Smith W4KNX
> >Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:49 AM
> >To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List
> >Subject: RE: [BC] Last Stands
> >
> >That was done in this area many years ago.  A guy barricaded himself in
> the
> >Control Room and played Johnny Paycheck's "Take this job and shove" over
> >and
> >over again....  Probably was stunting, but the station changed formats
> the
> >next day.  Made all the papers
> >
> >Paul Smith
> >Sarasota, FL
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
> >[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net]On Behalf Of WFIFeng at aol.com
> >Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:47 AM
> >To: broadcast at radiolists.net
> >Subject: Re: [BC] Last Stands
> >
> >
> >In a message dated 01/06/2006 09:05:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> >ron_doto at msn.com writes:
> >
> >> It took station staff about an hour to figure out which circuit breaker
> >to
> >>  open to kill the board.  It made the Detroit papers.
> >
> >It *should* have only taken them a few *seconds* to patch-out the CR and
> >run
> >a show from Prod. Too bad they didn't know how to do that. (Or the
> station
> >wasn't set-up to allow it. It should be.) They could have also just
> pulled
> >the
> >*main* breaker, too, and got him off-air in seconds. God forbid if
> >something
> >like that ever happened here, I'd have patched him out in seconds and
> >started a
> >"Technical Difficulties" loop. Call 911, and wait for the Police- then
> kick
> >the
> >door in and (hopefully) resume normal programming.
> >
> >What a send-off, tho.
> >
> >Willie...
> >
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Christopher Clark
Entertainment Technician
  Six Flags Darien Lake
Engineering Czar
  89.7 WITR Henrietta