Ditzy radio listeners (Re: [BC] TV news)

[Scott Fybush]

> Then there are those who call *us* looking for the phone numbers of other 
> stations! Duh! I usually suggest that they call Information.

There was one Saturday morning at WCAP in Lowell, Mass. when the 
business line phone rang about 5:15 - before we were even on the air for 
the day. (And yes, it got answered - you never knew when it might be one 
of the Cohen brothers, the station's owners, at the other end!)

The slurry voice on the other end asked for information about the bus 
schedule, which of course was NOT something readily at hand in the 
newsroom.

"You're a RADIO STATION! What do you mean you don't have a bus 
schedule?!?!?" *click*

Did I mention that the buses in Lowell didn't even run on weekends then?

There's something to be said for being enough of a community institution 
that people will call at an ungodly hour, expecting an answer to an 
utterly off-the-wall question. I bet Sirius and XM don't get those calls!

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