Yep,  all true!  Lou
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From: "Brett Winches" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 2:00 PM
Subject: You know you are in radio.....


> Subject: "You know you're in radio when. . ."
> 
> You might be in radio if...
> .. you turn up the radio excitedly at the sound of dead air on your
> competitor's station.
> .. you listen to the radio "inversely", turning up the volume during
> promos, sweepers, and talksets, and flipping to another station during
> music.
> .. you swear at the competition while driving when you hear a song they
> beat you to.
> .. you tell someone you plan to go to lunch "coming up next hour".
> .. you have 125 unopened CDs you'll never listen to but, never more than
> $3 cash.
> .. you have lived in six cities in eight years.
> .....You get excited at sunset and drive by the towers just to hear the
> phase shift.
> .....you know at just what mile marker a certain station will/will not
> come in.
> .....you drive a $500.00 piece of crap while the sales weasels have
> $50,000 Lexus.
> .....You find yourself talking to yourself all the time to see how you
> sound.
> .....you base your trip plans on what stations you want to hear.
> .....you get a memo about how to report overtime and you wonder which
> overtime is overtime.
> .....two days off in a row is considered a "long weekend."
> .....you can recite the five-day forecast from memory.
> .....you forgot what kind you music you like, but instead like songs
> because they sound good after the jingle.
> .....you have been listening to the football game your station is airing
> for two hours and YOU DON'T KNOW WHO IS WINNING!
> .....you can tell what time it is when listening to the radio even if
> they don't give the time.
> .....you have dozens of tapes of radio stations that play music you
> don't like.
> .....you listen to a station that's barely coming in.
> .....you have copies of both the album version and radio edit.
> .....you have recurring nightmares about bad airshifts filled with dead
> air.
> ....At Christmas dinner, you backsell the Christmas presents, explaining
> that "Unopened ones around the corner, stick around".
> ...when the hotline rings you break into a cold sweat.
> ...your production/remote load exceeds your airshift and your friends
> ARE NOT in radio when they say you "have it made" working 4 hours just
> playing music ...you begin to like the music you are playing even though
> you have been faking it for years.
> .. you can go to the bathroom, smoke a cigarette and make it back for
> the last 15 seconds of a 4 min. song.
> .... you can recite all the spots in a break.
> .... the one time you need the power generator is the one day the
> electrician didn't have time to hook it up.
> .. you have ever had to call a supervisor more then once on the same day
> at 3 A.M.
> ..your chief engineer has ever had to talk you through how to fix a
> transmitter from over a cell phone.
> .. the equipment at your station decides to stop working properly and
> just go to hell on a holiday weekend when no one can be reached.
> ...you recite I.D's and sweepers from different stations just to annoy
> your friends.
> ...when your at home and you answer the phone and give the stations call
> letters.
> ..on a holiday weekend, you're the only one at the station.
> ...you talk to friends in a "radio voice"
> ..you can hit the post on any ramp in your playlist, but can only sing
> the hooks from songs that are in your music promos.
> ..you have a CD player in your car, but no tape deck, and are mad!
> (because you can't listen to your aircheck from that day). or no radio
> hooked up at all, which is the worst...
> ..you are well into your thirties and have been hit on by a 13-year-old
> girl on the request line.
> ..you hate everyone's favorite song because it doesn't have an intro.
> ..when you think of your fantasy girl or guy it is always someone in a
> band - not a movie star.
> ..you don't know whether to introduce yourself at parties...with your
> air-name or your real name.
> ..you know what temperature it is.
> ..you make your friends listen to airchecks and they have no idea what
> you are talking about.
> ..you refer to nighttime as "the weekend"
> ..you don't assume DJs are attractive.
> ....you hear your competition using catch phrases and you pull over to
> the side of the road screaming, "That's mine Damn It!" - while your kids
> look at you as if you've finally snapped.
> ....the first time you voice-tracked a shift, you stayed up until 4 A.M.
> to catch every break.
> .. you have found that 7-inch reels of tape DO decay over time when
> stored in the garage.
> .. when you open your closet...out comes down 10,000 promo cd's and SWAG
> you just told your firm no I DON'T HAVE THAT PROMO CD FOR YOU..DAMN
> IT!!!!!!!!
> ...you have a million promo t-shirts that are WAY TOO BIG because
> they're all XXL for all the radio station listening fatties!
> .. you refer to black people as "urban" or "rhythmic"
>                                 --
> this particular list copied from Kellie Chase, Middays, at 96.1 WRXK
> (Ft. Myers)