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Thursday, July 31, 2008

I've been listening to the local radio station in Grand Haven. It's small-town and full of delightful little nuggets that you just don't get at the big stations. I worked on the air for about 12 years and I fondly recall the goofy things I had to do. Some examples from my career:

weekly psychic/astrologer call-in show
remote broadcasts in the mobile studio van...
at a car dealership, from 5:30-10 AM, and the dealer didn't open until Noon
at a TCBY for an entire week
in a city park on Saturday night from 7-Midnight
at a movie theater, in a mall, from a pay-phone, on a Tuesday night
commercial for a Mexican restaurant featuring blatant racial stereotypes
horrible commercial read live on the air by a business owner

However, yesterday I heard something new. It seems that my local station includes the reading of the obituaries column as part of their news broadcast. If that weren't creepy enough, here's what I heard yesterday:

Well... there are no new obituaries to share with you today... so... we'll be back with more news after this:
(commercial) "Would your family be properly cared for if something happened to you?..."

Then I had to pull over as the rest of the life insurance commercial played.

posted by Brian Atkinson at 6:45 AM

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