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Dan-O · The Gates of Troy Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 1638

Spoil sport.

BTW, you misspelled "believe".

ricevoice · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:22 am Post subject:

G-mail invents time travel!!!

Not bad, but I liked last year when they invented Paper E-Mail better.
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todd ellis · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:08 am Post subject:

my best morning show prank ever ... went on the air 1st thing monday morning giving the time 1 hour in advance and saying "hope you all remembered to set your clocks forward this weekend ..." i did it all morning - boy were people pi$$ed.

good times ... good times ...
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Deirdre · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:11 am Post subject:

I always liked the "on-location review" of an imaginary parade.
Radio rocks.
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dhouston67 · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:41 am Post subject:

Deebs,

Great fun, but I was always warned against saying you were broadcasting from a particular place if you weren't actually there. According to at least two Hobo Laughing

s I worked for, this is (was?) a big FCC no-no.
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Hart · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:41 am Post subject:

We did the imaginary parade once too. We had recorded sounds from a real Mardi Gras parade to run under us. For the people that actually showed up we had the station van out and interns giving out T-shirts and stuff so nobody got too pissed.
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todd ellis · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:46 am Post subject:

got this in my eweek email this AM

top 10 tech hoaxes
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ccpetersen · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:23 am Post subject:

I remember that "Internet Spring Cleaning" one...

also check out today's google earth blog... they have some good ones on there, too.

http://gearthblog.com/
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Audiogal · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:27 pm Post subject:

My station did a variation on the imaginary parade: an imaginary hot air balloon event. Complete with press releases sent out a few days before. The station had a very well respected news department who of course stayed completely out of it...it was never mentioned on our newscasts. The press release was issued by the Programming Dept. That should've been the first red flag.

Yes, people were mad! Especially the local TV station who went on the air with the news of the "balloon event." It's been nearly 15 years & if you mention that April Fool's hoax to any media person in town, they know exactly what you're talking about!
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DaveChristi · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject:

Back in 2003 we did a cricket on my morning show. A continuously looping CD with the sound of one single cricket chirping at random intervals at about -15db. Played the thing ALL morning. Under music and everything.

Folks would call in and ask us, "Did you know you guys have a cricket on your air?"

And we would respond with, "Gee, I don't hear it. Are you sure?"

One guy took the back off of his old console HI-FI in his shop looking for a cricket. Another gal pulled off the road and searched her truck for the damned thing.

We didn't reveal the gag until our show recyclers hit the air around 10:30.

LOLMORNINGSHOWS Sticking out Tongue

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glittlefield · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject:

Oooo... Chinese cricket torture! Awesome!

A station at which I once worked had an awful invasion of crickets one fall. It got so bad that you could hear it from the studio, so I ran a mic out to the studio door and ran them under my breaks all night long.

I sent the aircheck to an entomologist friend of mine and he said they were all chirping "How can I get started in radio?" and "Do you guys have any openings?" over and over... Get Lost

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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:08 pm Post subject:

and probably "people say i have a great voice."

Devil

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