Saturday, May 27, 2006
Big Time Radio Guy Story #1
Many years ago I was lucky enough (cough, cough) to land a job working for the lowest rated
radio station in Cleveland. At one point we had somewhat of a top 40 type format (same songs played over and over) and the Program Director decided to put Pink Floyds "Another Brick in The Wall" into heavy rotation, twice an hour. Now this stupid song is about 7 minutes long, which mean that if you factor in time for news, sports, ads and station identification, there were actually times when we only heard ONE other song between "The Wall", news and crap and then the stinking
"Wall" again...as soon as the first sounds of the helicopter ("Stand still Laddie!!) came on everyone in the station would groan...I still hate that song.
radio station in Cleveland. At one point we had somewhat of a top 40 type format (same songs played over and over) and the Program Director decided to put Pink Floyds "Another Brick in The Wall" into heavy rotation, twice an hour. Now this stupid song is about 7 minutes long, which mean that if you factor in time for news, sports, ads and station identification, there were actually times when we only heard ONE other song between "The Wall", news and crap and then the stinking
"Wall" again...as soon as the first sounds of the helicopter ("Stand still Laddie!!) came on everyone in the station would groan...I still hate that song.
