In all the time I programmed my own music on different radio stations, I'm proud to say this only happened once:
One day, at KCOU, I overestimated my ability to run to the record stacks and find a good segue with the song I was playing. I ran into the studio just as the record ended. With no other song cued up, I flipped the record over and started playing an alternate mix of the song I'd just played.
At that moment, I remembered the words of former program director Jon, who had said the previous year that he wished DJs would loosen up and be more adventurous on the air.
"No one's going to start screaming at you because you missed your segue," he said...
...and, the following year, those words held true for me. And, why shouldn't that have been the case? Lives didn't hang in the balance.
"This is college radio," I reasoned. "Who says I can't do this just this once?"
