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

[DHultsman5@aol.com]

Many year ago I worked for a radio station theta specialized in giving the  
sports scores every hour during the news and a sports scoreboard on the 15  
minute and 45 minute mark between music & commercials.
 
We were one of the few stations that had a Western Union Sports  ticker.  I 
worked a Sunday morning gig and there were a feww Satuarday  betters that would 
call at 7 AM on Sunday morning wanting me to give them the  scores from 
Saturdays  Baseball or football games to compare to their  betting sheets.  They 
knew we had the service and had broadcast it the  evening before.
 
This guys voice became very familiar to me and he always went down his list  
wanting the scores, probably onformation he could get from the Sunday  
fishwrapper or he could have got it from our station the night before had he  been 
listening.
 
Finally one Sunday I had had it with this guy so I put him on hold and told  
him I would transfer him to the sports department.  I got together with the  
FM jock and he answered the phone "FM Control"  and then told him he was  sorry 
he didin;t have that information but it was broacast last night at 10:15  PM 
but let me transfer you to the Sports Department and back to HOLD.  Then  I 
would come back on the phone and say "engineering"  no I am sorry I don't  have 
that info I'll transfer you to sports and hit the hold button,  hoping  that 
he would hang up....then after another 3 to 4 minutes the FM guy would come  
back on saying "Traffic department"  no sorry we do the program logs here I  
don't have the scores let me transfer you to the SPorts Department.  again  hold 
for 3 or 4 minutes.  The we would do it until we felt the guy was  deperate 
and then finally answer'  Sports Department"  and he would  say "SPorts 
Department"  like is it really you?  and would ask for his  specific scores from 
Saturdays games then I would shuffle a bunch of papers  around for another minute 
or so and come back and say,  " I am sorry the  last report was done at 10:15 
PM last night and I can't find the copy  sheet.  Could you call back in about 
thirty minutes,  I have got to  get ready for a sports scoreboard.   and Hang 
up.  After about  two weeks, he never called us again and fourtunately he never 
called  management.  Of course they would have know it was a ploy as there 
were  only two people on duty and probably kicked our buts over it.
 
Dave