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You know you're an Aging Radio DJ when...
-You were first hired by a GM who actually worked in radio before becoming
GM.
-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 used to smoke in a radio station and nobody cared.
-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 grease pencil, a razor blade, and a spool of 3M splicing
tape in your desk drawer -- just in case.
-You can still see scars on your finger when you got cut using that
razor blade and cleaned out the cut with head-cleaning alcohol and an extra
long cotton swab on a wooden stick.
-You can post a record, run down the hall, go to the bathroom, and
be back in 2:50 for the segue.
-You only did "make-goods" if the client complained. Otherwise, who
cares?
-Sixty percent of your wardrobe has a station logo on it.
-You still refer to CDs as "records".
-Your family thinks you're successful, but you know better.
-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 know at least two people in sales that take credit for you keeping
your job.
-You still have dreams of a song running out and not being able to
find the control room door.
-You've ever told a listener "Yeah. I'll get that right on for you."
-You have a couple of old transistor radios around the house with corroded
batteries inside them.
-You remember when record promotion men brought a new release to the
station - and you programmed it on the same day.
-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 were a half an hour late for an appearance and blamed it on the
directions you received from the sales person.
-You've run a phone contest and nobody called, so you made up a name
and gave the tickets to your cousin.
-You remember when people actually thought radio was important
*From 1964 to 1988
