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This guy might as well run a drum and bass internet radio show lol
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...3/06/ndj106.xml
Radio DJ chats away to himself for an hour
Last Updated: 3:36pm GMT 06/03/2008
Radio DJ Andy Greener filled his breakfast show with witty banter, chat about the news and the crucial weather update.
A radio studio
Mr Greener forgot to press the broadcast button
He thought he was broadcasting to his loyal listeners as usual but for an hour nobody heard a word of it. Mr Greener's carefully-composed thoughts disappeared into the ether because he forgot to press a button in the Radio Teesdale studio.
Instead, fans of his show heard 60 minutes of music and jingles as an automated back-up system kicked in to prevent radio silence.
Meanwhile, station boss Peter Dixon, who was listening at home, was trying desperately to alert the presenter on the phone. But the former police officer, known to listeners as Mr Andy, was too busy chatting away into his microphone to answer the phone.
Eventually, Mr Dixon got through and only then did the red-faced DJ realise the on-air light in the studio was not on. He took a couple of minutes to compose himself, before pressing the right button and start broadcasting once again.
The independent station, which broadcasts to 25,000 people in rural Co Durham from the market town of Barnard Castle, has a community licence to broadcast locally.
The presenter told the Northern Echo newspaper: "I've been doing the show three days a week for ten months and always pressed the button at the right moment. Goodness knows why I forgot this time.
"I thought the show would be going down well. The studio phone kept ringing, but I was too busy talking to answer. I now know that some of the calls were from people pointing out the blunder."
Mr Dixon, the station's only employee, will not fire his "excellent" breakfast show DJ, who is one of 35 volunteers who have learnt their radio skills from scratch.
The manager said: "It's quite funny he was talking to himself for an hour. We try to do it in a professional way, but the presenters are all unpaid and they just do it out of dedication."
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Dogs On Acid > The Board > This guy might as well run a drum and bass internet radio show lol
03-06-2008 05:14 PM
@ "we won't bother firing him because we don't bother paying him"
