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Poor old deluded Guy... one station plays a expletive-free news from a week before (at midday on a Saturday), his station plays an expletive-ridden, highly defamatory (if it was directed at a colleague, luckily it wasn't), disgusting rant at 6.30pm Tuesday night... 2HD should be thankful that they have very few listeners, and even fewer with good hearing and the means to make complaints online to ACMA.
Good on you for not publishing his name RI. Everyone makes mistakes and when you are new to radio you tend to make a lot of them! Moral of the story is never say anything you wouldnt want broadcast. I recall hearing a jock on 4BH accidently go to air as he was reading a commercial which seemed to be going back the the production studio....you could hear him over the song reading this ad and I was convinced that any second an fbomb would be dropped. It never came and he read it in one take and then thanked the production guy ...what a PRO...wish I knew his name.
I agree we all make and have made mistakes.
I always taught my trainee announcers that they should NEVER swaer, even not on air.
Swearing is a bad habit, and if you swear when things go wrong, you will swear on air for sure.
Also I believe that ther are a lot of good words in the English language in which you can vent you feelings that will not offend.
Stuff happens. Move along.
Dynamite, I know what Lawsie is paid. $32,500 but he has to write some copy after he gets on air.
He told me he is hopeful he will get a pay rise and get $40,000 ....only downside is that he will have to work Saturday mornings !
It's something for all the radio schools/trainers - teach them never EVER use foul language near a mike. Ever, period.
go live & take your time