[BC] unscheduled moments of scilence

[Broadcast List USER]

I used to do this!

When I was the CE at WAVA in Washington, when it was the flame  
thrower Top-40 station, I would do this!

We would have to go totally off the air for some reason -- antenna  
switch work, some big lift -- something RARE, because we were  
generally NEVER off the air, I would get a bunch of prizes, and we  
would offer them to the first 10, 20,  25, or 30 callers when we came  
back on the air.  It only happened a few times because we had two of  
everything when I got there, and had three antennas when I left.

We would have at least one person answering the phones during the off- 
air time to explain what was going on and what we would be giving  
away when we came back on, and to help take the information when we  
did come back up.

I think we had higher cume being off the air than most stations had  
being on.

I always coordinated the return to the air with the jock.  When the  
carrier came back on, the jingle, and legal ID would IMMEDIATELY  
follow, and 19 phone lines would light up in less than three  
seconds.  I don't know how they would do it.

--chip

On Mar 10, 2009, at 12:16 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 8
> From: Kevin Trueblood <kevin at neptuneradio.net>
> [...]
> 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...
>
> Kevin