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As the original social media, Radio has always been about storytelling and not just on the air, but at conferences, in bars and of course, on social media. War stories of amazing promotions, crazy coworkers, epic battles and the artists who we’ve met.
I don’t think anyone has ever sat around the bar at The Conclave or the World Wide Radio Summit and bragged about the time that a label brought them the new Tom Cochran release and they spiked it in at night. Though…if you worked at KDWB in 1987, you would most certainly talk about the time that a kid returned to the Twin Cities after a semester studying abroad in Sweden and walked in and wanted to meet Brian Philips and give him a cassette of this band called “Roxette” and he HAD to listen to it. And he did and he spiked it in at night and now you know the story about how Roxette invaded America.
Nope. It’s the fun stuff. The stuff that drew us to Radio as opposed to a career in Law or Cosmetology. Me? I came for the Fun.
A couple of months ago someone on Facebook reminisced about doing a competitor dirty at an event. It was kind of funny. And someone else added their story. So I jumped in and started typing…and typing…and typing. Read more…