[BC] unscheduled moments of scilence

[Cowboy]

On Tuesday 10 March 2009 09:25 am, Kevin Trueblood wrote:

>  Another jock just before we shut the transmitter down for a few minutes
>  announced he was giving away a prize to the 9th caller when they came back
>  on.  He apparently got a lot of calls...

 I *might* be the guy who originated that approach.
 It was about 1989 or so. There was deep concern in that station
 about losing audience while off the air, so I proposed that
 "contest".
 There were a LOT of calls, though I don't remember how many
 exactly. Hundreds at least.
 
 The actual contest was to call in with the exact amount of time
 the station had been off, as determined by our own station clock,
 so we had listeners sitting out there timing transmitter off to transmitter on,
 within a second.
 Whoda thunk it ?

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Cowboy