[BC] It wasn't the President this time.

[Gary Zocolo]

Back in my on air days...we had a radio enthusiast who knew what every 
station was  doing down to the most minute detail. He would call the on air 
jock, no matter who it was and just talk and talk and talk...and ask loads 
of questions.....we had an uncomplimentary name for him....the radio 
tard....One day the guy on remote started talking about "trt" to me over the 
VHF RPU and wouldnt you know it...within a few minutes they guy showed up at 
the remote wanting to know why we were calling him a tard. The guy on remote 
did some fast talking to smooth it over.... I saw the same guy in news 
footage at a fire talking about hearing about it on the scanner....I had 
never seen him before that, but his voice was unmistakable.

Every mic has a listener or two....

Gary Zocolo
Nashville

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Croghan" <loteng at lvradio.com>
To: "'Broadcasters' Mailing List'" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 2:45 PM
Subject: RE: [BC] It wasn't the President this time.


Scott,
Actually their reason for monitoring is varied.  Some are Broadcast
wanna be's.  Some enjoy the technical talk, Others have found as I have,
that what they hear on the TV ENG channels is often more interesting and
complete than the actual over the air reports.  I tune the traffic report
frequencies so I don't have to punch around to see what station is doing  it
live at the moment.  I know of very few complaints that resulted from RPU
listening.  In one case a long series of off color, racially prejudicial
jokes being told by the remote guy to the guy at the studio resulted in
fines, and in another, a client's brother heard the remote jock bad mouthing
the client to the board op between breaks.  That cost several thousand
dollars in cancellations.
One person's idea of life may be another's boredom, but that's
called freedom.  Remembering that all mics are potentially live at all
times, is just plain professionalism and common sense in this business.

Bill

Bill Croghan CPBE WB?KSW
Chief Engineer,
KOMP/KXPT/KENO/KBAD
Lotus Broadcasting
Las Vegas, NV
Email to loteng (at) lvradio.com
Phone 702-315-3030
Fax      702-876-6685


> -----Original Message-----
> From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:broadcast-
> bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Bailey, Scott
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:11 PM
> To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [BC] It wasn't the President this time.
>
> Sounds like a bunch of guys that have absolutely no life.  They sit and
> monitor RPU channels just to find something wrong someone said or done
> so they can call the nearest enforcement office and complain.
> Gee, I'd hate to be the one to have to answer the phone at the
> enforcement  offices. I tell some of those jokers that call to go get a
> life and hang up!
>
> Back when you could hear cell phone conversations on scanners in the
> early 90's, there was a convenience store that had stereo speakers all
> over the store, wired to the scanner, so customers could hear cell phone
> conversations.  Some people have real personal problems.
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