Twice, I've seen DJs fall asleep during their shifts. Luckily, at one station, the DJ hadn't been asleep that long. I knocked on the counter, and she woke up while music was still playing.
At another station, however, I'd estimated from the time I started hearing dead air to the time I got to the studio to choose music for my shift that the DJ had been asleep for about 15 minutes. How do you handle a situation like that? In that DJ's case, upon hearing the door open, you wake up, go back on the air as though nothing happened, and back announce the track that ended 15 minutes ago.
That's the only time I've heard anyone say, "OK, that was...," 15 minutes after a song ended.
