RadioBanter - You know you're an aging DJ when...

This was sent to me by a former co-worker. I've been out of "the
business" for a while so most of it applies to me.

You know you're an Aging Radio DJ when:

You were first hired by a GM who actually worked in radio, before
becoming GM.

Radio stations were no place for kids.

You excitedly turn the radio up at the sound of "dead air" on the
competitor's station.

Sales guys wore Old Spice to cover the smell of liquor.

Engineers could actually fix things without sending them back to the
manufacturer.

You worked for only ONE station, and you could name the guy who owned
it.

Radio stations used to have enough on-air talent to field a softball
team every summer.

You know the difference between good reel-to-reel tape and cheap
reel-to-reel tape.

Religious radio stations were locally owned, run by an old Protestant
minister and his wife, never had more than 20 listeners at any given
time, and still made money.

You have a white wax pencil, a razor blade, and a spool of 3M splicing
tape in your desk drawer - - just in case.

You can post a record, run down the hall, go to the bathroom, and be
back in 2:50 for the segue.

You knew exactly where to put the tone on the end of a carted song.

You only did "make-goods" if the client complained. Otherwise, who
cares?

Somebody would say, "You have a face for radio", and it was still funny.

Sixty percent of your wardrobe has a station logo on it.

You always had a screwdriver in the studio so you could take a fouled-
up cart apart at a moment's notice.

You would spend hours splicing and editing a parody tape until it was
³just right", but didn't give a damn how bad that commercial was you
recorded. Hey, I can only work with what they give me, right?

You still refer to CDs as "records".

You played practical jokes on the air without fear of lawsuits.

You answer your home phone with the station call letters.

You knew how to change the ribbon on the teletype machine, but you
hated to do it because "...that's the news guy's job."

You have several old air-check cassettes in a cardboard box in your
closet that you wouldn't dream of letting anyone hear anymore, but,
you'll never throw them out or tape over them. Never!

You can still see scars on your finger when you got cut using a razor
blade and cleaned out the cut with head-cleaning alcohol and an extra
long cotton swab on a wooden stick.

You still have dreams of a song running out and not being able to find
the control room door.

People who ride in your car exclaim, "Why is your radio so loud?"

You remember when promotion men bought to new LP's to the station,
among other things - and you played them the same day.

You have at least 19 pictures of you with famous people whom you
haven't seen since, and wouldn't know you today if you bit 'em on the
ass.

You wish you could have been on "Name That Tune" because you would have
won a million bucks.

You even REMEMBER "Name That Tune".

You can still hit the beginning of a song on an album with the stylus,
and
slip cue that sucker while potting it up so the cue burn isn't so bad.

You know what slip cueing a record is.

You can thread up a reel to reel in two seconds flat.

You¹re no longer stunned when you have to patiently explain that you
don't
have to record your voiceover on two tracks so it will be "stereo".

You remember when everybody turned on the radio, not the TV, to find out
WHERE THE TORNADO IS.

You can remember when smoking in the air studio "WAS MANDATORY".

--
Paul Van House
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