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Originally Posted by JBHuskers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIgOcScWhy4&feature=fvsrQuote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
Dude...how do you almost have 10,000 posts? I haven't spoken 10,000 sentences in the past year.
He's a post whore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deuce
When the site first started, I was 2nd behind him and pretty close (considering most of his beginning posts were spam :P ).
Now, it's just disgusting the disparity.
I honestly couldn't do it if I tried. Too lazy! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
:D :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Deuce
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Altering my #'s is no way to live life people :up:
Someone caught it ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by NatureBoy
I get it ... everyone is jealous cuz I fully contribute to this site :nod:
Not to say we told you so, but that is three posts right there in a row. :D:D
Yes...gotta make sure integrity is ensured here. :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by psusnoop
And three posts 5 mins apart do not count to your theory :PQuote:
Originally Posted by psusnoop
Just to make you happy....
54
Good night.
Here's a battle. Who reaches the next level first? JB to 10,000 or me to 2,000?
Or me to 3k. ;)
Nice. :D I was at 1,980 when I made that previous post. So it was my 20 against JB's 54. However, I have been active throughout the night while JB's been sleeping, so I've been able to get it down to only 9 more needed (after this post), with a number of topics around the various forums that have new posts for me to potentially reply to. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
I've been doing the same since I just woke up at 7:30. No work day for me, the potential for 3k today is quite high. ;) (only 25 more to go)
Yeah, I don't have to work at all during the day. I'll go in to work at like 10 or 11pm tonight and take care of some stuff I have to do, which getting all that done, then means I don't have to go in tomorrow at all either. So lots of opportunity for me to play NCAA, and post, today as well. Speaking of which, 7 to go. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
So, you've said before that you work for a radio station (if I'm not mistaken). Are you an actual on air person or are you a behind the scenes guy?Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Both. I do a morning show on air on Saturday mornings from 6-9am for our sister station in the next town over. I also fill in for the weekday morning show on that sister station on holidays. I've done the morning show on it, from 5-9am, last Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and just last week on the morning of the 4th.Quote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
I run the studio for one of our stations here in town for football, basketball, and baseball games for the local hometown team. I'm in the studio during the game running the controls. I also go on air and give a full halftime show (anywhere from 5-10 minutes, depends on what our broadcast team wants to do at halftime), a full postgame show, and then during football season, live local scoreboard updates from the end of the game through about midnight or so.
I also get all of our weekend shows that we play on our stations (Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 for the Hot AC station, College Football Country, ZMax Racing Country, Crook and Chase Top 40 Country Countdown, etc for the Country station) downloaded off of the FTP sites that they are on online, and load them into our systems for playback on air over the weekends. Those weekend shows are what I go in to work on around 10 or 11pm on Thursday nights.
The network load for Clear Channel is at a very minimum, so some of the files take only 2 or 3 minutes to download, as opposed to 15 or 20 minutes to download the same file during the day when the network load is high. Even at night, with over 60 different audio files that I have to download and then load into the system, it still takes 2 1/2, 3+ hours, but it's quicker at night, and I don't have to deal with answering the phone or getting bugged with stupid stuff from the sales staff, and I also don't have to go in at all on Fridays, so I go in overnight Thursday nights and work on them.
And then I also record audio for some spots, promotions, commercials for local businesses, stuff like that. In total, I officially am on the staff of four different radio stations. The Hot AC station, the Country station, and a News/Talk/Sports AM station in Defiance, and then a Soft Adult Contemporary station in the next town over in Napoleon. And all that without even a single hour in a college for communications or radio. :D
I first got involved in radio back in 2005 during my first year at college, volunteering my time with the Neighbors in Need food drive our country station does every year from the end of October through mid-December. I volunteered with Neighbors in Need for every year after. Come 2007, the morning guy and Program Director for the country station left for a job in Oklahoma, so a new guy came in, only maybe 7 or 8 years older than me, and extremely laid back. He is very rarely serious at work, constantly screwing around and giving hell to the guy on our AM station in the mornings. So he's almost more like a brother or roommate than a boss. So me and him hit it off instantly and got along great, and worked NIN together for 2007.
Come the last couple weeks of Neighbors in Need, we were coming back from a live remote in Paulding, about a 20 minute drive away, we got to talking, he was short on board ops for HS basketball, so we were talking about it and he asked if I'd be interested in becoming a board op and running the board for GMC basketball. I wasn't working at the time, so I said sure, why not. I'm great with computers and electronics, and am one of those people, you can sit me down, show me how to run or work something, and I instantly pick up on it and am running it like I had been doing it all my life in a short time. I had never even seen the inside of a radio studio, after only two games of sitting there watching him run the studio, I was running the entire studio and doing halftime by myself by the third game.
Did that for the rest of basketball season. Come March, Josh asks me to come in, we sit down, he asks me if I'd be interested in learning to run the board and studio for the morning show of our guy on the Hot AC station whenever he's out doing a live remote during his show. He still handles all the on air stuff, I'm just in the studio keeping the music logs on time, putting him on air when needed, making calls for phone interviews he does on air, etc. I said sure, first time doing it, since I had to go into it cold turkey by myself on an actual morning show, was a little rough, but I had it mastered after only my second or third time doing it. Now I'm the ONLY person that our Hot AC air talent trusts to run his studio during his morning show when he's out at a live remote. He's said to my face multiple times in the past.
That eventually grew into making me the permanent board op for football, basketball, and baseball for Defiance sports. I have first right of refusal for running board for Defiance sports every year, which is what I've done for the past couple years. Then that eventually grew into becoming the guy to do all the weekend shows every week. And then that grew into one day last May being asked if I'd be interested in becoming the on air guy for the morning show on Saturday mornings on our sister station. The guy who was doing them at the time was leaving at the end of May, so I said sure, sat in on two morning shows watching what all was needed to be done, both in the studio before, during and after the show, and on air during the show. Come the third Saturday, the first weekend of June, I was officially the new morning show guy on Saturday mornings, and was doing my first show on air. Been doing it ever since.
All that without ever taking a single communications or radio class in college or at a technical or trade school. Just did it all by being given the chance to work there, and then watching, learning, and absorbing as much information as I could, and then working hard and bettering myself on air during sports and on the technical side of things in the studio.
And after posting that book on what I do for the radio stations I work for and how I got into radio, I would just like to say, this is officially my 2,000th post. :)