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@ Kevin Alfred Strom
2025-05-08 02:09:50
When I was chief engineer at WEAM radio in Arlington, Virginia, back in the late 70s and early 80s, I encountered a whole "Jay" subculture at the station. Apparently there had been a popular DJ there, whose _nom de mic_ was "Jay Brooks," who had gotten fired. Someone started writing "Where's Jay?" on walls and post-it notes and various other random places. Soon people were doing it who never even knew who Jay was. Someone even made an audio jingle of the phrase and played it on the air late at night. It went on for years.