Radio station’s ‘inmates’ scare motorists, rile deputiest — Aren’t there public nuisance laws that can be applied here? A $10,000 fine would put a stop to this sort of gag.
LAND O’LAKES – Some marketing genius is going to have some explaining to do.
A radio station stunt that had three listeners dressed up like escaped jail inmates went awry Friday when dozens of people called 911 and the resulting ruckus tied up traffic during morning rush hour, authorities said.
The three people, shackled and dressed in what appeared to be jail uniforms, were competing to try to get motorists to give them a ride, Pasco County sheriff’s spokesman Kevin Doll said. The first one back to the studios of Tampa station WXTB-FM would win a trip to Los Angeles in conjunction with a new Fox show called “Prison Break.”
But after 30 or 40 calls from “terrified” motorists and residents, sheriff’s deputies responded in force and took them into custody for real, Doll said. They were released after about an hour.
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Funny. Did they do an emergency podcast? When does the Dvorak podcast start?
This is typical of today’s broadcast radio mentality, and the reason why satellite radio, and MP3 players are catching on. Broadcast radio is all about playlists that repeat, and repeat, and repeat, ad nauseum, moronic DJ’s, and dopey gimmicks. Broadcast radio thinks that the new digital technologies are going to save their bacon. But they have yet to figure out that “it’s the programming, stupid!”