Thursday, February 26, 2015

Warning: CDs In Area; Wear Protective Gear

One hazard I never expected while working in radio: The music library might fall on you.  About two seconds before I was scheduled to go on the air at KNJZ, a nail on the back wall holding the CD library in place came loose.  All of the CDs, except for the one playing and a few coming up, fell on me.  A lot of people might react to being beaned by a CD library by saying, "What the...?"  Keeping in mind a former program director's advice to everyone at another station about never swearing in a room with a microphone, though, I opened the mic, and said, as scheduled, "You're in the middle of another extended set of today's smooth jazz..."