{"id":20506,"date":"2018-10-08T00:09:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T07:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=20506"},"modified":"2018-10-08T00:09:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T07:09:42","slug":"life-of-overnight-radio-dj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/life-of-overnight-radio-dj\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LIFE OF AN OVERNIGHT RADIO DJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"radioThis is a true story.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was there. It really happened.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a story about a large market disc jockey whom I’ll call “Bob Roberts.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah, it was tough to decide among that and “Steve Michaels,” “Mike Stevens,” “Mike Roberts,” “Steve Roberts,” “Rob Daniels,” and “Dan Roberts.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Bob Roberts” is not<\/em> the name of the jock who stars in this story.<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s no point in trying to guess his true identity, because you won’t find any clues in the air name I’ve given him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although thanks to consolidation and syndication they’re now an endangered species, most full-time radio stations had an “overnight jock” who typically worked from midnight until 6am.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those shifts could be a very long six hours: Few if any commercials to play. No contests. Few if any listener phone calls*.<\/span><\/p>\n

(*I’m not including those two people who always called.)<\/span><\/p>\n

But at least the overnight radio host<\/a> was a valued member of the team, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

Especially someone like “Bob,” who’d been working that station’s all-night shift for 5 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

The morning show, afternoon drive, even the part-timers all comprised the station’s air staff, a team.<\/span><\/p>\n

Comrades in arms, everyone doing their best to contribute to the station’s identifiable sound. <\/span><\/p>\n

(Well, maybe except for a couple of the part-timers.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Rarely the highest-paid people in the building, but a team dedicated to entertaining an audience and, when possible, avoiding members of the sales staff.<\/span><\/p>\n

The large market station manager called a meeting of the entire air staff at 4pm on a Wednesday afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pretty much the worst possible time for an overnight jock, but presumably “Bob” knew the job was dangerous when he took it.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Bob,” the 5-year veteran of the overnight shift, showed up a few minutes before the meeting was scheduled to begin.<\/span><\/p>\n

As he walked down the corridor, toward the conference room, the station manager approached him.<\/span><\/p>\n

“May I help you?” asked the manager.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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