"May I see your papers, Mr. Plains?" said THE F.C.C.

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Fourteen years of working in radio, and today, I finally faced my FIRST live F.C.C. inspection. It was like meeting The Great Pumpkin for the first time.

The inspector wasn't what I was expecting. Instead of Agent Smith, it was this quiet old cowboy looking man who was probably semi-retired. I showed him my signed program log. I ran an Emergency Activation System test for our five metro counties.

I'm just sorry that they got rid of that rule saying you had to keep a book containing everyone's license at the station. I used to love looking at those.

― PPlains (PPlains), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

You are giving me severe college radio flashbacks.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank God they never showed up during my show.

"Son, just why do you have beer bottles on the turntables?"

etc

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Even in college, I never saw any official inspection.

Now..., I may have heard about some someone's having a log-signing party to make up for several months' worth of unsigned logs, but I never actually had THE MAN standing in front of me.

― PPlains (PPlains), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

never had an actual inspection. Had a fake one once I think. I had to enforce log-signing though, man some people were such airheads about it!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 7 December 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

kingfish did you have a show on kpsu?

― jelky (jergins), Friday, 8 December 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

nope, 88.3 WCBN-FM Ann Arbor, all the way to the left of your FM dial. you're listening to 'Kingfish Radio' and it's just after 2 o'clock. Coming up next is some more Radio Birdman and Catherine Wheel, but first, here's the Happy Flowers.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 8 December 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

answer papers?

― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 December 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

"Son, just why do you have beer bottles on the turntables?"

ROCK AND ROLL!!! WHOOOO BEER!

anyway, i live in terror of FCC inspection. hasn't happened in ten years, hopefully won't.

― GAWD PVNCH (yournullfame), Sunday, 10 December 2006 06:44 (seventeen years ago) link

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