I was in Simcoe when the prod manager came in to the control room.  I was in the middle of reading grain prices between John Jordan's Farm Market News segment (oh yay!).  The production guy walked around the back of the board console, and had his finger conspicuously stuck through his jeans to make it appear he was exposing himself.  He waited for me to look up, and I loudly shrieked on air.  The production guy ran out laughing their heads off at me.


 

This one's pretty tame...maybe even lame....

Worked a morning shift with a d.j.  that I used to listen to when I was ten years of age...

He's still with us...lives about 8 miles from me currently...

He'd been around a long time even back then  so as you might expect he arrived at the station a 2 minutes before 6...did his show prep...i.e. clear his throat and then sat in the chair...making his exit at about 9:01 a.m. lol....

I had an opening 6 a.m. newscast.

So one day I decided to park my car elsewhere and make it appear that I wasn't there...

Newsroom unattended....overnight wire service copy a million miles long on the teletype  etc. etc.

He was in the midst of preparing a newscast but the truth was I was ready to go...revealing myself at about 5:59 a.m.


















 

 

Last edited by unclefester (May 3, 2016 10:57 am)

A TV sportscaster who had "issues with the bottle" would always prepare his 11:00 'cast right after the 6 and then go out on the town, arriving back at the station just minutes before air time and not exactly sober. Those were the days before teleprompters so he had to rely on his script. Someone thought it would be funny to put multiple staples through all the pages below the top one. As we gathered to watch, the guy launched into his live sportscast and realized what had happened after it was too late... so he continued to ad lib the rest of the sports and then went out for more drinks afterward. He never said anything about it to anyone. It was an incredible back-fire for the jokester!