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)