Re: blown call letters

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@xtdl.com>]

At 07:33 PM 3/25/99 -0500, Roger Kirk wrote:
>
>When I worked at WRKO, each newscast's cover 
>sheet had the exact words for the intro: 
>
>It's 20 minutes before _____________, 
>I'm ____________  WRKO 20-20 News
>
>----------------------
>Contest award sheets were in plastic pockets.  The jock
>filled in the Contestant's name and city/town with a
>grease pencil.  He read it on the air just as written.
>
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>All time-sensitive copy references were written as:
>
>Friday/Tomorrow/Today
>
>The incorrect words were crossed out and copy was 
>replaced as Tomorrow and Today occurred.
>
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>Overkill?  Maybe, but mistakes were few and far between.
>

WRKO was very scripted.  It was interesting when something went wrong & the
jock actually had to ad-lib...some pulled it off well, others sounded lost.
 Somewhere I have a tape of Dale Dorman trying to fill some dead air when a
cart was uncued or something....very obvious he was at a bit of a loss for
words. (and no, this is not the aircheck that's in circulation where one
turntable has a bad stylus)..I just happened to have been rolling tape when
this one happened.

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