ronbo said:
You are absolutely right, their GM who's name I never knew, died right there on the production room floor while pulling albums. He was also pulling a shift when this happened. I was working crosstown at WROX for Tom Reardon at the time. Mr. Reardon came to me just as I was finishing my mid-day gig. He told me the GM at KDL had died on the air and there was nobody handy to run the board. Could I go try to help them out? I said sure I would. I was all of 18 and an all-out radio trooper at the time. So I headed out across to town to the bottom of the Bobo Building to help a fellow broadcaster in need and because I needed brownie points with the Lord.. Well, I get their and "dude" is still on premises and still rather dead. But the paramedics had him removed shortly thereafter. All this time I had just sat down to control a board I had absolutely no clue about. And I was live! I regained some semblance of " professional radio composure" within about 10 minutes and simply tracked 45's all afternoon long until daytime sign-off. Then I hauled aarse to Mempho for a Journey/Think Lizzy/Eddie Money concert at the Coliseum. That was one strange day in my life. One I'll not soon forget. And I never did get paid for that
And I've also long since believed that board had ghosts. I'm glad I'm not the only who thought so.