Okay, so that's at least three of us - G, T, and the Z that have spent some time 'rockin the mic' at the old college radio station.

Who else?

Tell us about your show!

Were you a real college radio nerd, all helping run the station and dreaming of being the next Johnny Fever... or just spinning some tunes to impress the opposite sex?

most of my time was spent finding music to annoy. our station was only broadcast over the dorm cable system (if people wanted to listen) or into the cafeteria directly across from the station.

70's porn grooves were our primary output. apparently you can't study calculus while hearing "bow chica bow bow"...

I didn't have a gig myself, but I sometimes guest-starred on my friend's show. I was 'sound-effect girl'. It was a good program. We used to go into McDonalds and try to interview the manager about carp.

For the record, total nerd: I did engineering, news-copy writing, really crappy original radio comedy, public-affairs programming, promotions, training air staff, and as many as 14 hours a week on mic.

My last term I tried to take a break and just coast to graduation, and wound up co-hosting a midnight-to-two festival of hate music and deeply disturbing PSAs.

just spinning some tunes to impress the opposite sex?

I wanted to share my enthusiasm for delightful music. Part of my intention was also to play as much music as i could find from gay or visibly-gay-friendly artists. Some musicians are very "out", and/or very outspoken about their support for their gay friends. And if i wasn't playing material from such artists, then my next-best priority was to play music which i thought would be most enjoyable for my gay friends or the local gay community in general.

Of course, that was a sort of idealistic notion. In the long run i simply tried to play as much new and interesting material as i could find, and the actual sexual orientation, gender, political views, and other such factors weren't the most important qualities when i selected records every week. I just wanted the audience to hear things which they might perceive as beautiful, exciting, pleasant, creative, and friendly. If possible i would try to research other details about the people who produced the music; but spreading happiness was my only definite priority.

Oh, and i did help out quite a few hours per week with the work that needed to be done at the radio station, although i wasn't involved in most of the highly technical projects. There were always PSA's to record (people said i had good elocution), giant stacks of vinyl records and compact discs to file, paperwork to submit to ASCAP and BMI, new people who needed help learning how to use the studio equipment, etc.

I was active at WRUV from February 1992 thru August 1995. When i was a new DJ i applied for my FCC license, but it took an extremely long time for the federal government to issue it. I didn't receive the official card [jaral.org] until well over a year later. Of course this was only a formality, and i knew people who didn't receive theirs until long after they'd moved away and were no longer even involved with the radio station.

Although i can be talkative in person and online, my behavior on the radio was quite the opposite. The only times i ever spoke were: at the federally required moments, such as giving station identification every hour, and to read some newsfeeds at specific times on the schedule; or to give the playlist of the artists and songs which i was mixing, and the names of their singles, albums, and compilations which were newly released. My voice would thus only be heard two or three times per hour, very briefly, with concise information. I don't personally appreciate talkative DJs.

I honestly have never given much thought to any impression i make on "the opposite sex".

never had my own show; never wanted the 2 am slot that they stuck you with for half a sem. to do, but i did do some guest appearances as dan the hobo-man. I had an awesome backstory and everything.

damn i wanted my own show.

In Response to kornz (#35641):

never had my own show; never wanted the 2 am slot that they stuck you with for half a sem. to do

Well, kornzy, that's kinda what you had to do: spend all night running the board for a friend who's a year ahead of you as he does his six-hour exhaustive "Frankie Goes To Hollywood" retrospective (including 17 bloody remixes of "Two Tribes"), fighting sleep and rising bile, all to earn the chance to grab the mic at 4:00 am.

After all, you can't let just anybody on the air.

G, T, and the Z

Sounds like a rap supergroup. And since we're transcontinental, we can have an internal East Coast/West Coast war.

I did a few different stints, mostly just to see what I could get away with, and who I could annoy. One of my shows covered the last part of the dinner hours at the cafeteria. The Student Goverment did their bit by broadcasting PSA's and 'informational programming' during 'National Get Off Your Ass Week' or 'We're All Brothers Inside' week, but those were almost always poorly dubbed and low level, so the Caf PA would get cranked up so they could be heard. I was never late for my show those days, just so I could tell the SGA folks I'd take care of the end of their program, and queue up something nice and dinner-musicy, like Ministry or Front242 (yeah, it was the very early 90's) to pump across that blessedly pumped-up PA.

And to celebrate 'Bram Stoker's Dracula', my friend and I did a 3 hour Tom Waits retrospective, and only spoke in our best Tom impressions, anyone that wanted to call in had to talk like Tom...

I'm really wishing we'd had ratings, just to see if I scared people off or drew them in.

In Response to gtyrrell (#35642):

in college, if i was staying up till 2 am there BETTER BE video games ready.

In Response to gtyrrell (#35643):

Arrrgggghhhh now I have DC Talk's "Jesus is Alright" stuck in my head. The bit where they go "g to the o to the d" and then I giggle insanelty for hours.

Tried to find it on youtube for those that haven't heard this masterful composite of "late eighties rap solo in crappy white boy song" with "evangelical rock coz it is cool for the kids"

Can't find it. Shame.

In Response to tor (#35650):

Arrrgggghhhh now I have DC Talk's "Jesus is Alright" stuck in my head.

Wrong thread.

In Response to zamphir (#35651):

Nah because he made the g, t and the z comment which is what started it.

Guess I could have double posted it but then I am a lazy lazy man.