Off the Air
Sad, sad news.
I’m going to be off the air for a little while. Yesterday I accidentally let a couple of explicit words get broadcast out over the air.
Another member of the station called me and asked me to take their name off of the list for giving away Spoon tickets and getting into the show for free. I did that and though I should give the tickets away since the show is coming up this week. I could not find the latest release in the new release push box, so I went and grabbed an older CD that had a lot of entries for being played previously. I scanned through a few songs and found one that sounded okay during a quick listen. So I announce the give away and play the song. I take the winning call and get the guys info. I turned the mic back on to let people know that tickets are gone so I don’t have to keep answering the phone and telling people the same thing. One line lit up again and they guy on the other end says “YOU JUST BROADCAST MOTHER F*CKER TWICE!” I was like, whoa… I didn’t hear it since I was on the phone. So I killed the Spoon song half way in. I didn’t know what the lyrics were so I just killed it.
Cut to today. The guy who called is the station engineer. He told Tommy the General Manager. The station has been extremely conservative lately because there have been incidents of pretty bad stuff going on. I’m suspended immediately from my show. I meet Monday with the executive staff to find out what’s going to happen.
I’ve been doing a lot for the station, so hopefully it won’t be too bad. I understand that I can’t get off with nothing. The FCC could hit the station hard if someone complained. I just hope it won’t be too harsh since it was completely accidental. If I knew the song had that language would have never played it. The CD had no warning label or notes from other station member that any of the songs had any non-FCC lyrics.
So a friendly warning to any other college radio people. Watch your back. Big brother is already watching it.