Radio Jockeys or Stupid Jocks

Written on May 21, 2007 by Sid

Stupid Jocks is what I would call some of the popular radio jockeys shrieking their way to fame. There’s a post further down this page about an FM channel named after a vibrant basic color. There’s this woman there who is RJ-S running a show named after Delhi street food. I happened to win a competition nearly 2 months back, and haven’t even heard of my main prize yet. I mailed the woman in question… but no response. Apparently, she’s only paid to scream out her email ID, but not to read them. [updated, see below]

Then there’s this chap I particularly liked - same channel, calls himself RJ-KN. Very popular chap. I thought maybe he would take on the matter and defend his channels reputation. Nope. Guess he’s too busy standing in the bathroom, making out with the mirror.

—————————–* UPDATE *————————–

I received a mail from RJ-S (above), who was really nice about the whole affair, and who said my mails didn’t reach her. I learnt that another department handles the prize distribution (probably the ‘Queen of England’ as in my previous post on the subject) and so on. She was also very helpful and facilitated the mailing of my ‘five star dinner’ coupons as claimed on her show.

I received the coupon, but they have turned out to be of some place, which I have never heard of. Maybe they expected me to be speechless with sheer gratitude at being given a pass to a restaurant that has absolutely no mention on Google (thats my measure of most establishments, so sue me!). I’m not. Anyhow, I’ve given the coupon away and hope it makes someone happy. Didn’t do anything for me anyway, since I was expecting a ‘5 star hotel’ to be the venue and not a no-name resto-bar seeking publicity.

Conclusion: ***FM indulges in fake claims, delays prizes, has people with lousy attitudes (except at least three nice people I know of , including RJ-S) and has absolutely no idea what ‘relationship management means’.

Looks like I’ll have to read the manual of my car radio to delete 93.x from its memory and hope that the brief exposure to lowIQ radio waves didn’t dumb down my car.

To insulate RJ-S from any of this, she was probably given a brief to talk about on air, w.r.t. the contest and she did so. Also, she went out of her way to ensure that another department does its job. I don’t think I could have asked for anything more.

So, what it comes down to is: There isn’t any mechanism the buffoons at management have installed to ensure that on-air claims filter down to their ‘prize logistics dept’ OR the ‘prize logistics dept’ is manned by the likes ‘the Queen of England’.

-sid

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