VO-BB - 19 YEARS OLD!

Deirdre · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject: She quit on the air

Hart · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:01 pm Post subject:

Oh man! Yeah, in my old home town of mo-BEEL. It makes me so proud.
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BenWils · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:06 pm Post subject:

That is crunktified! Man, where was their 7 second dump-out switch when you need it. Hey.....I make $6.00 an hour....wait....$6.25....sorry... and that ain't nothing to sneeze at (kidding).

I haven't laughed that good for a while. Hope she finds a better gig. Maybe some voice talking or something?
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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject:

"I don't care if I ever get another job in radio. Period."

Mmmm hmmmm sister.

Now how many of YOU have wanted to quit on the air?

She's all Star Jonesin'....
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Deirdre · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:42 pm Post subject:

I at least got to say Good Bye on the air when Citadel laid me off.
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Bailey · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:56 pm Post subject:

Here's more updated info about your girl... Check out the interview with Jeff and Jer.

Interview
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anthonyVO · 14th Avenue Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 1470 Location: NYC

i REFUSE to believe this is true Rolls Eyes

glittlefield · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject:

Well, if it's not true, it sure is getting a lot of mileage. I could have sworn I saw that link posted here before. (!?!) I'm surprised they didn't cut her off somehow in the middle of that rant, but who knows what the backstory is to this?

Usually, when I got laid off, it was quick and decisive. The station would either go dark or change format, so I never got a chance for that "last goodbye" on the air...
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Deirdre · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject:

Well, when Citadel took over (that's the reality-- they tried to use the term "merged with" but no one believed it) my radio group in Seacoast, NH, they stripped benefits first, and then laid off the senior air staff.

Me.

I had committed the crime of making $12 per hour.
The bean counters didn't like that-- and thought they could save money hiring a college kid at $7 per hour to do my show.
I was tracked, but I always stayed around when I was "on the air" to answer at least SOME phone calls.
I could track my 5-hour show in an hour and a half AND do production for half an hour every weekday.
She took 3 hours to track my show and COULDN'T do production.
You do the math.

I at least knew which end was up and got to leave the air with praise for my PD and GM and a big fat sayonara for my listeners.
I always played Yukihiro Takahashi's Connection at the end of my show.
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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:33 am Post subject:

I sent the link to some radio friends and an old boss, who said "this is a gem, but at $6 an hour she was overpaid Wink

" And while he was kidding, that's a reason to not be in radio anymore. Sheeeesh. Deebs, bet you miss that $12/hour job??!!
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Deirdre · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:48 am Post subject:

Bruce · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:19 am Post subject:

Yeah, I gave my two weeks notice at KFMB in San Diego many moons ago, and they waited to fire me until a few hours before my last show, which admittedly the SOB's might not have liked hearing, but talk about your coitus interuptus....

I also got fired on a LABOR DAY for not being mellow enough while doing the morning show on the "New Mellow Sounds of FM 99 KBBC". Turns out I was making a lot more money than anyone else, but hey, I like the excuse. Oh, and the p.d. is now a VP for Clear Channel, of all things.

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I came to San Diego in 1980 and wanted to stay in radio at least part time and was offered a part-time job (it was at K-BEST, Bruce) at $6.50 an hour by a program director I knew from a radio station in PA. I said no thanks and went back to college.

I did quite in the middle of a song (I wish I had said something, but I am glad I didn’t) at WRSC, State College, PA (1977). The GM was a jerk and I was an on-the-air at the time and the program director. He tried to tell me I was working the weekend when I scheduled someone else (I had worked all week about 70 hrs.). I signed off the log and handed it to him and said "your wrong, I don't work for you anymore, I quite." I walked out.

Then I called John Gehron who was program director at WLS, Chicago. John put me in touch with a program director in Harrisburg where I got a better job. John had also worked at WRSC once-upon-a-time and understood all too well.

Several years later I ran into another DJ I worked with at WRSC at another station in Harrisburg, PA. This other DJ said the old GM told everyone he fired me. Well, this other DJ had become Hobo Laughing

and quite a few months after I did. When the other DJ was driving out of town he saw the GM in his company car at lover's lane lookout necking with someone other than his wife. He knocked on the window and told the GM that if heard that the GM had told anyone that he fired this guy like he told everyone he fired Greg, he would pay his wife a visit and tell her about the girlfriend. It worked.

As the radio turns….

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Kind of reminds me of the day I left radio. I took a donkee to work with mistletoe over its head.

Rolls Eyes

Hart · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject:

Yeah, when I lost my pd and afternoons gig in (of all places) Mobile, AL they "allowed" me to work out my two weeks. As much as I didn't want to, I grinned and beared it for 8 days on the advice of my legal counsel. They took my key and phone and told me not to bother coming in on the next to last day. Who knows what they thought I was going to do but 1. I'm a professional, and while I would have said good bye it would have been short and sweet and 2. I have WAY too much respect for the audience of that station to pull some stupid stunt. It's not their fault their favorite radio station was bought out by a freaking moron who couldn't program a cd changer, much less a whole radio station.

I'm not bitter anymore, what?!? I'm not. Okay, maybe just a little. I've been let go before, and I'm sure I will be again but that one hurt. That station was my baby. It upsets me thinking about it so I'm gonna stop and go watch GP's video again. Smile

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