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

[Robert Reymont]

In Cleveland years ago, we used to have our 
traffic reporters do bogus traffic reports about 
fatals and them monitor around town who put it on the air...
and what TV copter showed up..

Robert
At 11:34 AM 7/27/2006 -0700, you wrote:
>         I know of half a dozen fellow hams who monitor the RPU freqs used by
>our local radio and TV stations on their scanners.  I monitor both the RPU
>VHF freqs we use at all times in my home ham shack and on a scanner in my
>truck.  The monitoring of other stations for competitive advantage is
>common.  In Denver many years back, the News director and I used to play
>recorded dummy packet transmissions, over the news departments 2 way just to
>confuse the competition. Stations have been cited by the FCC for what goes
>over the RPU even if not aired over the Broadcast facility.
>
>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->mailto:broadcast-
> > bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Bernie Courtney
> > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:42 AM
> > To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [BC] It wasn't the President this time.
> >
> > much along the same lines I know of a person who used to do remotes who
> > took
> > part in bashing his boss with the person back at the studio running the
> > board.
> >
> > ...only problem-- neither realised he was doing late night maint. in
> > Master
> > control and had the remote feed dialed up on the monitors in MCR and
> > heard
> > the entire conversation.  He wasn't around for much longer after that :-
> > )
> >
> > b
> >
> > On 7/27/06, Jerry Mathis <thebeaver32 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 7/27/06, Reader <reader at oldradio.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Via Shoptalk:
> > > > Apparently he missed the memo to consider all mics "open and live."
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > By <http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1319629&secid=1>Andrew
> > Wineke
> > > > THE GAZETTE
> > > >
> > > > KRDO/Channel 13 meteorologist Matt Meister was suspended Wednesday
> > > > after a live microphone caught him using obscenities.
> > > >
> > > > Meister had just done a weather update Tuesday night during a
> > > > commercial break when his voice was heard over an episode of
> > > > "According to Jim," an ABC sitcom, using foul language to complain
> > > > about an earlier audio problem.
> > > >
> > > > Meister apologized for the incident during the station's 10 p.m.
> > > > newscast and said he would accept the consequences of his actions.
> > > >
> > > > KRDO general manager Neil Klockziem read a statement on the
> > station's
> > > > 5:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts on Wednesday, saying Meister would
> > be
> > > > suspended while the incident is investigated. Former KRDO
> > > > meteorologist Mark Nelson filled in for Meister on Wednesday.
> > > >
> > > > "His use of vulgar language even when he thought his mike was turned
> > > > off was contrary to station policy and unacceptable," Klockziem said
> > > > on the newscast. "He has been suspended without pay while we review
> > > > the full details of what happened last evening."
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > >
> > > > Do you have a BDR? http://www.oldradio.com/bdr.htm
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I learned a LONG time ago, in a competetive market, to never say
> > anything
> > > near a microphone you wouldn't want broadcast over the evening news.
> > Our
> > > competition monitored our Marti remote channel on a scanner, and
> > anything
> > > we
> > > said, not only during remote breaks, but in between, was heard by
> > them. As
> > > I
> > > was doing Engineering for both stations, I learned to keep my mouth
> > shut.
> > >
> > > A lesson that's hard to master, as my mouth STILL gets me into trouble
> > > occasionally  :)
> > >
> > > --
> > > JM
> > > _______________________________________________
> > >
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> > >
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> >
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>
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Robert Reymont
Double R Consulting, Inc.
P.O. Box 42277
Mesa, AZ 85274-2277
Phone (480) 820-2439, FAX (480) 820-2514