[BC] Re: Tough names

[Mike McCarthy]

   Jack Mehofski was a great one which nearly got me fired from one place a lo   ng time ago. Owner thought it was funny...he had a sense of humor. GM didn   't..she's out of the business now....thankfully.
   MM
   >
   > 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<   br /> > > pronounce?
   > >
   > > Has anyone ever heard of a station changing it's COL just to avoid hav   ing
   > 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 ju   st 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 :-)<   br /> >
   > 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 decid   ed to
   > leave me in engineering :-)
   >
   > My alternate was Sir Basil Smallpiece III, but I did not have to play tha   t
   > card. Easy win with my first choice :-D No on-air work for me!
   >
   >
   > Jeff Glass, BSEE CSRE
   > Chief Engineer
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   > Northern Illinois University
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