The great toilet paper thief and other dumb jocks

The Eyre Peninsula’s 765 5CC has some legendary stories regularly retold about dumb jocks who have passed through their studios over time.

General manager Darren Allard has been kind enough to share a few with us:

1. The station was engaged in 25th Birthday celebrations doing a live Breakfast Broadcast on the Port Lincoln foreshore, giving out free egg and bacon sandwiches and coffee.

All staff were in attendance as we logged into the Studio via team viewer on a laptop. So the powers-that-be decided there was no need for studio monitoring.

The Breakfast announcer spilt his coffee all over the laptop, destroying it.

I can’t remember if it was during a voice break but announcer had to keep talking until someone got back to the studio to fire off ads.

2. A couple of Announcers after a big night decided to come into the studios and record themselves doing their best Derrick and Clyde impersonations and the material was full of the “C” bomb.

Note: Derrick and Clyde were characters devised by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, the legendary English comedy duo.

At the time we shared programs with a sister station from another area and their desk had been left open. While the announcers thought they were only recording themselves, the people in the other area were hearing it all live.

3. Back when the station went off air late at night, the GM and PD arrived at the studios at exactly the same time and burst through the front doors only to run into one of the station announcers who was his way out to his car with an armful of toilet paper he was intending the steal from the station.

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