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Darren Altman

Check out this brilliant early April Fools prank!! DJ 'quits' live on air!

http://www.novafm.com.au/station/national/show/fitzy-and-wippa/video/fitzy-resigns-live-on-air Wink

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chuckweis · Contributor IV Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 136

That's pretty freakin awesome. They went through a lot of prep to pull that off. Hopefully they have bosses who can laugh at this (of course after being initially furious.)

You've gotta feel pretty secure in your job to do this to management...after all, it IS radio, home of very uptight people at the top.

Matto · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:27 am Post subject:

Hahahaha, classic!! Thanks for sharing, Dazza.

chuckweis, those guys are some of the "celebrity" radio jocks in Oz. They're not going to lose their jobs easily as the network would be pretty keen to keep milking that cash cow.
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Scott Pollak · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:59 am Post subject:

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DGates · Contributor Joined: 01 Mar 2014 Posts: 28

Good stuff.

Not having worked in radio, my question would be, can't the producers cut a transmission from outside the booth?

Pam · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:59 am Post subject:

HILARIOUS!! Loved it and sent it on to a few radio peeps here in the US.
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Rick Riley · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:35 pm Post subject:

I actually did quit live on the air in Hartford, at WCCC in 1986. We had taken the station in the morning from worst to first and my partner and I got an offer from RKO Radio to do mornings in Miami. We knew if we gave our notice, they would never let us back on the air and we wanted to thank and say goodbye to our audience. So at 6:30am we quit, told our audience how great they were and thanked them for all they had done. A little before nine, the program director arrived, came screaming into the control room and said, 'Your fired!'. I said, 'It's kind of hard to fire us after we've just spent the last two and a half hours quitting.' He told the mid-day guy, who had been with us for the last hour, to get on the air, to which he replied with a straight face, 'I can't, my show doesn't start until 10 o'clock.'

I left my home in Hartford with snow up to my knees and by that evening I was sitting on the balcony of my room on the 14th floor of the breakers. It was 75 degrees and since I had no shorts, I was enjoying room service in my underwear. Radio was a great gig!
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vkuehn · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:36 pm Post subject:

DougVox · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:49 pm Post subject:

That was really well-done...thanks for sharing, Darren.

My buddies Paul & Young Ron here in Miami did a similar thing this morning, with their boss in the studio:

"Our annual April Fools bit was in house this year. Young Ron and I were bickering all day, then invited the boss into the studio. That's when things got dangerous and out of hand. This is friggin' great and he had no idea!"
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chuckweis · Contributor IV Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 136

Bruce · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 5:09 pm Post subject:

And then some people boldly ask to be fired.

Many moons ago one of the many DJs named Tom Kelly (not the famous "Shotgun" Tom Kelly) was doing afternoons on KHJ in Los Angeles. The newsman came on and announced that President Nixon had just resigned.

Kelly went into a rage on the air about how bad Nixon was and that he should be hanged. While his next record played he walked into the Program Director's office and said, "I'm fired, aren't I?"

The answer, "Yep."

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