Now those make for fun and real radio.....that is when they don't get edited out. A DJ that I like listening to (no names) make a tongue tied twister when they pronounced Carrie Underwood as "Carrie Underwear"! They probably could have hit the panic button and removed it but did not! I am glad as that was good for an afternoon chuckle! Those are signs that a human being is back of the mic and does not mind letting a little self humor, even when they laugh at you, get on the air.....!! Bravo!

Let's hear more bleeps and bloops once in a while....a little humor goes a long way!

See Ya

That brings up an interesting aspect to voicetracking...many Program Directors encourage their on-air talent to leave innocent mistakes in their tracks, to make it sound more real. So, in essence, don't use the technology to its fullest extent. VT'ing is evil, and we certainly don't want to sound like we are using it!

We do leave a few blunders and bloopers when voice tracking our morning show.

Ted Rogers while working for KIMN in Denver years ago told me about Al Lowman. Al was so smooth on the air that he would make a mistake on purpose so that he didn't sound like a machine.

Voice tracking I can see has it's place. It would seem only evil when abused or used for purposes it does not fit well with. It looks like it would make since to only record a spot once and use that in your entire cluster. Or for late night and weekend programs when the listeners are at the lower levels then sure why not. But come on.....morning and afternoon drive time....gotta be live and local! Can't voice track traffic snarls as they happen. Sure you can switch to the station traffic dude but it just sounds real when the DJ does it....you know they are sitting there talking to you live!

DT- We voice track a morning show in Coos Bay, the snarl of traffic is usually a block long...not miles. We do keep things local, just not traffic updates...no need.

Little different in VanPort!

Well of course. And I have done morning drive in Portland live.

I am really enjoying doing a morning show without having to get up at 3am.

I bet!

Conway Titty vs. Conway Twitty

and In the 90s I thought the label said Sausage Garden vs. Savage Garden.

and of course you gotta be careful if into-ing a song by the country group Black hawk.
just use your imagination on that one!

Oh...and a DJ could have some real fun with "Big Balls" from AC\DC.....!!! Dirty deeds done dirt cheap!

Here is a good song track for you:

Right after business we will start off with:
Big Balls
followed by
Let me put my love into you
then
shoot to thrill
and finally
you shook me all night long!

Ha....now there a valentines block for ya!!!!!

I referred to the Dixie Chicks as the "Chicksie Dix" on Monday when talking about the Grammys, and it wasn't on purpose.

And worse.

Back in my KBPS days, one of my class mates said "Oh Shit" on the air.

It was completely accidental, but funny none the less. I've still got a tape of it somewhere.

"Al was so smooth on the air that he would make a mistake on purpose so that he didn't sound like a machine."

LOL. That is a great story.

It is always important to give the on-air guy a chance. I had an experience like that at 1450 too. The news guy at "Summer Sound" hands me a tape and says, "I screwed up the first one, use the second one." So, naturally, with only a few minutes, I find his first one, "This is (name withheld) with Summer Sound News..." He gets about 30-40 seconds in, screws up, I whip down the monitor and shuttle it past. With about 45 seconds to news time, I find it, cue it and plunk back in the chair.

Record comes out, liner drops in and bada bing, "This is (so-n-so) with Summer Sound News..." He gets almost to the end, and like clockwork, stutters, drops a nice and tasty, "oh sh*t." Thankfully, I had the next record ready and he went away in a flash. Afterwards, I listened to the entire tape for a take without a problem. Nope, nothing else. Just those two. Oh yeah, that was not a good day for either of us. Neither was the next one. LOL.

We were both blessed with a great program Dylan. Sometimes, I learned a lot more about myself than radio. That ability to get your guts going is a sure sign of a good bunch of educators. I am very happy to see the station thriving.

I remember one of the KISN morning show guys had to do a promo for the Outback Steak House. It came out something like Outback Out House. It cracked me up for the rest of the day. Oh the joy of live radio.

Jeffrey, that's the verse of "Mairzy Doats" you never hear.

Only now that accidental "oh...." line could result in a personal fine to you of over $300,000 and theres not one thing you can do about it.......

Just use made up words like TV does. Frack = f-bomb. Schnit = shit, Carp = crap!
Or do you people get nailed for that as well?

Semoochie: LOL.

DT: "They" tend to not like it, but it seems we can utter such things with impunity, although I seldom even say "hell" or "damn" anymore. Not that they're so terrible; I just know a lot of other words.

In business. I was always taught that a sign of a poor manager is one who has to use profanity to make his or her point. That can be applied in every situation in our daily lives. Profanity is a tool for the weak minded to fall back on when they have nothing of value to say in other words! Maybe on occasion for the idiot driver that almost runs you off of the road though is fitting.....if by yourself!

Space is a wonderful place.....in space no one can hear you swear or scream! Personal Space that is!

Once while conducting a call-in poll during the 1988 election season, over the intro of a song I listed off the results up to that point for candidates like George Bush, Michael Dukakis, and Gary Hart, and I was so digusted that I had to mention David Duke and Lynden LaRouche that after I gave the phone number I said, "Hey, you can even make a request too! I don't give a shit." Then there was about two seconds of the intro in the clear before embarrassed as hell I said very calmly, "You didn't hear that." My relief was in the studio and her jaw just about hit the floor. The only good thing out of that incident is that the GM or PD weren't listening.

Several months after that, while reading upcoming concerts, I referred to Tracy Chapman as Tracy "The Cow" Chapman. Someone had gotten ahold of the copy and written-in their little editorial, and for some reason I read it.

Hilarious, Rsb569. (Sorry, I didn't LOL!, but it was funny.)

Many jocks read copy without carefully looking at it before hand. This happens more than most of us will admit. I can totally relate to your Tracy Chapman experience.

For me, my biggest blooper goes back to when I attempted to do play-by-play on my high school station for the baseball team. The batter was, Richard Faulk. Needless to say, I totally messed up his name, then went on to call attention to the error by repeating and repeating the correct pronounciation. My 16 year old brain was just not capable of handling this correctly!

I was a PD at an AC station in market 55, there at 2am on a Saturday to work on music logs while a brand new part-timer started his first break-in shift. He was a quality guy, terrific sense of humor, had worked around the station, just never on the air. He was obsessed with doing a good job.

I was listening in the office, and heard him walk on a vocal, very awkwardly, about 40 minutes into his shift. Then, way below the level of the music...

"Damn!"

A second later...

"S***!_

A second later...

"F***!

Ten seconds after that, he came around the corner of the hallway, stood forlornly in the office doorway, and said, "Should I just put away the headphones and go home?"

I said, "No...but do you understand now why we turn off the mic BEFORE we rip the headphones off?"

He had been so upset with himself that he took the phones off, but hadn't yet developed the instinct to realize that if you can't hear the monitor, the mic's still on!

He turned out to be a keeper. Still works in radio in that market, 17 years later.

A better one happened in the late 70's at a small country station in Rochester NY. I did copy and production. The midday guy was a real ladies' man, late-40s, great looking guy with no morals whatsoever. He'd constantly hit on female listeners on the request lines.

Everyone who worked there was sick and tired of answering the phones, passing on his lies to his wife, and to the husband of whatever saleswoman he was out with on any given night.

One day, after a woman won a live contest, he went into the next record, but didn't get the phone or his mic turned off, and started coming on to the listener. Looking up and seeing the on-air light, three of us realized what had happened, and went running for the studio door.

We all got there at the same moment, reached for the door handle, paused, looked at each other, and said..."Nah."

The dialog aired, clearly audible over the music, for over two minutes.

His wife filed for divorce a few weeks later. She'll probably never know what a smart move that was.