[78-L] ^some guys have all the luck

[Michael Biel]

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Or a genius tech and a genius assistant producer could note
> the time where a bad word had been uttered and be ready to 
> bleep it when it was being re-fed..I kid you not. This didn't
> always work, leaving listeners to say "Boy, what did he really
> say if they let THAT go through?"


During the year I was manager of Northwestern Univ's station I am proud
to say that we got three obscenity complaints to the FCC.  We got off
scott free on all of 'em.  The third one concerned a late night airing
of the Kama Sutra album on Vanguard in a classical music show because it
had classical sitar music on it.  The first two concerned live coverage
of speeches of the lawyers of the Chicago 7.  Two of the defendent's
wives had uttered obscenities.  The second time we were prepared with a
tape delay but an operator who misunderstood my instructions.  Instead
of waiting seven seconds and cutting the air playback for two seconds,
when he heard the obscenity he cut the air playback for seven seconds
and then restored it just in time to air the obscenity following seven
seconds of silence.  We were accused of EMPHASIZING the obscenity by
surrounding it with silence!  

Don't you love live radio!!!

Mike (of course in most other countries they wouldn't care) Biel 
mbiel at mbiel.com



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [78-L] ^some guys have all the luck
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, June 05, 2009 2:51 pm
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

Dnjchi at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/5/2009 2:42:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> dlennick at sympatico.ca writes:
> 
> Dnjchi at aol.com wrote:
>> 
>> In a message dated 6/5/2009 10:47:54 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
>> mbiel at mbiel.com writes:
>>
>> The Henry Morgan Show
>>
>>
>> The Henry Morgan Show???
>> 
>> Don Chichester (who still remembers)
> 
> "Morgan'll be here on the same corner in front of the cigar store next 
> week."
> 
> Incidentally, Morgan lived in Toronto for a couple of years..ducking a 
> divorce 
> action or something. During that time he did daily bits on CKFM and a few 
> pieces on the CBC's Morningside, the last of which was a gem..where he 
> told a 
> CBC producer and an entire network to go screw itself. Took about ten 
> minutes 
> to do it, too.
> 
> dl
> Big network.
> 
> dc
> 
> 
"Some network..........some screw."

I don't know if this went to the entire country. Morningside, like most 
programs, was done LIVE to the Maritimes and then repeated in each time
zone 
from the original tape. If there was a goof-up or something that needed 
changing or updating, the feed could be interrupted or the entire hour
done 
over, live (we did that many times). Or a genius tech and a genius
assistant 
producer could note the time where a bad word had been uttered and be
ready to 
bleep it when it was being re-fed..I kid you not. This didn't always
work, 
leaving listeners to say "Boy, what did he really say if they let THAT
go through?"

dl
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