Some people who work the morning shift depend on a wake-up call from the station. Others simply set their clock radio. In the days when I worked morning drive, I always counted on my alcoholic next door neighbor to get me up in time. "Ralllllllllph!" Poor guy, I'd ...

"Didja hear what happened in the sales meeting?" My favorite sales account exec, the one who should work as a stand-up, is speaking in hushed tones in the doorway to my office. He looks both ways down the hallway to make sure there's no eavesdropping. "Sharon came back ...

My GM is the sensitive sort -- especially when it comes to money. So when he found out that one of our jocks would need surgery to remove a potentially cancerous tumor on his spinal cord, he immediately sprang into action. He rifled through a filing cabinet for the ...

Radio station engineers can make you feel thisbig. They remind me of that character on Saturday Night Live, the exasperated computer guy who tells workers, "Move," then fixes their problem with five or six strokes of the keyboard. I was convinced I had a computer virus ...

I'm amused by those who have this notion that PDs have total autonomy. Are you kidding me? Yeah, I have the power to hire and fire -- only after getting okay from the GM, the market manager, the VP/Programming, the VP/Programming's wife, the Human Resources Director and ...

So I'm going through a pile of mail, when I come across an envelope from the ABC Radio Network that really jumps out at me. See, the address label reads: Mr. Jack James or current Program Director. Does ABC know something I don't? --- Radio is about to lose ...

A porn star is dropping by to plug her latest X-rated flick on our morning show. Of course, as PD, I must be there to make sure we don't run afoul of any FCC rules or regulations. I greet the porn star's handler in our lobby -- a big, beefy, guy with a nose that looks ...

We're down another board op. Our eagle-eyed controller spotted $475 of 900 calls on the phone bill for last month; $410 for the month before that. All of the calls had been made on the overnight shift -- between 2a and 3a. There was only one suspect. Leo. This ...

I'll never fly a certain airline again. Here's why. Monica, one of our station's sales assistants, is married to a commercial airline pilot who can't get a driver's license. I find this out one day when Monica tells me her daughter is driving him over to the station to ...