when the hotline rings you break into a cold sweat. are leading the charge, leaving traditional forms of communications to play catch-up or get left behind.
you tell someone you plan to go to lunch "coming up next hour". you have lived in six cities in eight years. you have been listening to the football game your station is airing for two hours and you don't know who's winning. D's and sweepers from different stations just to annoy your friends. you have lived in six cities in eight years. two days off in a row is considered a "long weekend. you can recite the five-day forecast from memory. you are a "seasoned pro" after two years in the business.
you turn up the radio excitedly at the sound of dead air on your competitor's station. you turn up the radio excitedly at the sound of dead air on your competitor's station. you listen to the radio "invertedly", turning up the volume during promos, sweepers, and talksets, and flipping to another station during music. you don't know whether to introduce yourself at parties. your chief engineer has ever had to talk you through how to fix a transmitter from over a cell phone. you don't know whether to introduce yourself at parties.
You should be able find information about an old telegraph key or other artifact that you have.
you can recite all the spots in a break.
You get excited at sunset and drive by the towers just to hear the phase shift.
A handful of new media entities with remarkably silly names: Blogs, Vlogs, YouTube, Podcasts, and Yahoo! you listen to the radio "invertedly", turning up the volume during promos, sweepers, and talksets, and flipping to another station during music.
you hate everyone's favorite song because it doesn't have an intro. you hate everyone's favorite song because it doesn't have an intro. you listen to a station that's barely coming in.
you have ever taped a boring conversation with someone and turned it into something funny. your chief engineer has ever had to talk you through how to fix a transmitter from over a cell phone. you hate everyone's favorite song because it doesn't have an intro. on a holiday weekend, you're the only one at the station.
your chief engineer has ever had to talk you through how to fix a transmitter from over a cell phone.
you forgot what kind you music you like, but instead like songs because they sound good after the jingle.
you get a memo about how to report overtime and you wonder which overtime is overtime.
are leading the charge, leaving traditional forms of communications to play catch-up or get left behind.
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 talk about how much better your competition's webcast sounds over your stations actual broadcast.