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Who Here Does/Has Done Anything Involving Radio?

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PassiveTheory:
Just curious.

Currently I DJ at KZSC, UC Santa Cruz's college radio station, and my show is from 8:30 to 10:30pm on Friday nights. It streams online at kzsc.org. And last summer I worked with KBZT San Diego (FM 94/9)'s promotional department, and that was kinda fun.

But yeah, who here does or has done anything involving either commercial or non-commercial radio? Got any good stories to tell?

My old boss at KBZT pretty much told me that he fucking hates Death Cab for Cutie because, of the three times their management organized something involving the band and the radio station, they acted like total dicks every time, ranging from asking why there's not a private elevator for the band to putting on an intimate acoustic in-studio performance but having the gall to avoid talking to any of the people that won tickets to the event, much less acknowledging their presence. Weird.

Jackie Blue:
I used to DJ a total of 4 hours a week at a pirate radio station for a couple years.  It was fun, because I just played whatever I wanted to.

Unfortunately, I can't use that experience to get a "real" radio job because admitting you have ever participated in a pirate station automatically excludes you from any FCC-approved job.

ImRonBurgundy?:
I've done a bit of sketch comedy on the campus radio station here, KAOS.

KvP:
Ephemere had (has?) a radio show up in ol' Canada. Tommydski co-hosted a few of them. I'd dig up the thread were I not a lazy yank.

pwhodges:
I worked in BBC Radio as a Studio Manager for a while around 1970; but I guess the stories I have to tell wouldn't be of much interest here.  Like what it feels like to sit at a desk, and switch on the microphone between programs to say "This is the BBC European Service; the program that follows will be in Polish"; or what you do if a cleaner walks into the studio showing a red "on-air" light with a vacuum cleaner; or when the microphone fader knob comes off in your hand when the man in the studio expects it to be faded down so that he can hear the insert tape; or multi-tracking pop groups by repeatedly over-recording on mono 1/4" tape at 15ips; or wearing a dinner jacket to go on stage during a concert at the Albert Hall to move a microphone between items; or playing 17" diameter disks of Arabic music in the middle of the night; or the game presenters would play of giving a false end to a sentence and then adding just a couple of words as you released the disk you were cueing in...

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