[BC] Re: Tough names

[Xmitters at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/14/08 5:01:11 AM Central Standard Time, 
broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:

> Can anyone think of radio statuions who have hard City of Licenses' to
>  pronounce?
>  
>  Has anyone ever heard of a station changing it's COL just to avoid having 
to
>  try to pronounce some far flung hard to spell/say city/town name?
>  
>  -- 
>  Sincerely,
>  Paul B. Walker, Jr.

We have a city nearby named Shabbona. You can always tell the newbie 
announcers on the nearby stations because they say sha BONE ahh. It is just sha
bbona 
spoken as one syllable with no accent on, well, the BONE. Sorry, I don't 
remember all of those pronunciation symbols I learned in junior high :-)

One station I worked at insisted for a while that I also learn how to do an 
air shift. I said OK, but I want an air name, Stu Pedasso.  Go around the 
station today saying that name real fast, and you will see why they decided to 
leave me in engineering :-)

My alternate was Sir Basil Smallpiece III, but I did not have to play that 
card. Easy win with my first choice :-D No on-air work for me!


Jeff Glass, BSEE CSRE
Chief Engineer
WNIU WNIJ
Northern Illinois University

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