Any former college radio dj's or listeners, check this out...pretty funny.

[driver8]

I was a college radio dj in the early 80's (still love that music!!) and this killed me.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/college_radio_dj_thinks_he_has

[elocs]

1. I was a college radio dj in the early 1970s on FM radio when you spoke in a soft voice.

I was a Mass Communications major at UW-La Crosse and earned a credit for 3 semesters working at the college radio station. Back at that time we were a progressive rock station which for many of the music snobs meant you picked the most obscure album cuts by the most obscure artists you could find. I had a show on Wednesday nights from 9 p.m. until 2 a.m. and then on Saturday afternoons but instead of the obscure artists and cuts I took album cuts from popular artists as well as using my own albums (lots of Beatles).

I had a fairly decent following because of the music I chose to play until I went into the studio on a Saturday afternoon at about this time of the year to be informed that they would now be playing classical music. I could almost hear the radios around campus clicking off (pre-digital).

I do remember having to sit in the engineer's booth through hour after hour of those boring hearings that I thought nothing would come from it. Watergate.

[Brickbat]

2. Hee! I was a college dj for two semesters in the early 90s.

When we got a call-in request, we always panicked because it was so unusual. :rofl:

[driver8]

3. Ha Ha -- I know what you mean!

My first shift was 4am to 7am on Tuesday mornings...I think I got two calls the whole semester! I used to bring all my records into the booth with me; I had this fear that if I left the booth, I might not make it back in time before the record ended!!

[Brickbat]

7. "The light's blinking! What do we do?"

"Uh, answer it?"

"What do we say?"

"I dunno! Is this, like, a business?"

"What if they ask for a song we don't have?"

Etc. It was so serious back then, wasn't it?

[elocs]

4. On my late night show on a Wednesday I got a request for a song

and I happened to have the record in my hand. That was wild since this was a progressive rock station which had mostly albums and nothing really recent.

[enigmatic]

5. LOL

Oh man, that's perfect :D

I was going to pm you this earlier; check it out:

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2009/11/driver-8-rem.html

[driver8]

10. Awesome...

I love how Michael Stipe's southern accent used to come out in his singing -- good stuff!!

Is this from the Athens, GA movie? I used to have the soundtrack somewhere...

[TheMightyFavog]

6. I was a DJ for WWSP in Stevens Point for a year.

I got to read Questions for the big trivia contest that year.

[driver8]

8. A friend of mine from college is on the air at WWSP.

When were you there?

My friend's name is Russ Haines.

[gratuitous]

9. We were under no illusions

We knew nobody was listening. Then came the call to our little 10-watt FM station from a Canadian about 500 miles away. Apparently our signal had bounced off a favorable spot on the ionosphere and this guy was hearing us clear as a bell. We didn't even cover our teeny tiny campus on most days if the wind wasn't just right.

[denbot]

11. I was a DJ in community college

I think our signal only made it as far as the student union building. Our activities adviser made me broadcast only old blues/jump blues. For that I thank him.