Can you get drunk live on air?

Question

with your guest and when i say drunk i mean they was wasted by the end of the night

Answer 1

sure.  depends what country you are in.  in the states, it is possible, but mostly unless you own the station, someone could get upset and bring trouble.  if you're a happy drunk and it's late and you don't offend - it is likely to pass.  some radio stations do this on purpose as a public service message.  "drunk on air" is a great promotional vehicle.  you give the jock cards to read and tasks to do, then you have him drink shots.

Answer 2

Yes a person can be drunk on the air.  

However, FCC rules state that person cannot be in charge of the transmitter while they are intoxicated.  The FCC requires a person to sign a transmitter log, which states that between a certain period of time, someone had control of the transmitter.  You see, radio stations are required to have a person in control of the transmitter at all times.  Sometimes the DJ on the air is the person in control.  Now-a-days a person outside the station can remotely control a transmitter via a touch tone phone.  If the transmitter goes off the air or has other technical issues, it will alert someone with a phone call.  

So long as the drunk person is not the first person the transmitter will call in an emergency or they are not signed on the transmitter log, it's fine to be drunk.  Just hope that they don't forget and swear on the air.  That's a whole other FCC problem.

Answer 3

YES was after water shed  and the show was a little ott but not to ott

regards x kitti x

Answer 4

Johnny Fever and Venus Flytrap did it in 1978 on WKRP in Cincy.

Answer 5

As it was NYE, I don't suppose it matters, as long as they enjoyed themselves, lol. It's when they start doing it every night that it would be a problem. Who wants to listen to p'd up radio presenters, lol.

Answer 6

I have never been on air but a few weeks ago the guys at our local radio station were on til midnight and by midnight they sounded pretty hammered oops i mean Happy! I don't know what the broadcasting board would have to say about that? It was really funny though

Answer 7

who was ? maybe they get away with it maybe not  either way they will have sore head (like me) this morning

Answer 8

howard stern did that on his show on sirius.it was before a roast,everyone was drunk.

Answer 9

There was a program director a couple of years ago in New York who visited the DJ control room and was on air.  He was clearly inebriated, to the point he took the controls and even used the call letters of the OLD station he worked for!

Needless to say, he was fired.