When working at CFOS in 1981, we hosted three busloads of listeners to Nashville for a six day excursion. We went to the Grand Ole Opry for the Saturday evening live show on WSM. No country heavyweights showed up that night, but the auditorium was packed.
The thing I remember most was the live broadcast on WSM. It was fine except for all of the many "live copy" commercials on air. Most of these were read by the announcer live right on the stage. I felt sorry for the guy, he kicked the hell out of half of the live ads he read that night. As an announcer it was cringe worthy.
On the bus going back to the hotel one of our listeners commented out loud how poor the WSM announcer was reading the ads on air. He said any of the CFOS announcers would have done a better job! Our station manager and his wife were also on the trip, and he heard the comment loud and clear.
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