Thank you for calling XYZ TV station, can I help you?

First off, thanks for taking the time to check out this site and welcome!  I won't mention the TV station I work for in this blog but anyone who knows me knows where I work. 

Essentially, I am on the assignment desk at a local TV news station and part of my job is to field calls and emails from our viewers.  I'm not the only one at the station who does this so just look at this as a sampling of the calls.

But somewhere in there, we will find a story.

The title "our audience" comes from all the insane things people call and email TV stations for.  In particular, local stations.  They are, in part, "our audience".   You won't believe it.  It gives new meaning to the term random.

"Can you tell me what time it is?".  Wait...you took the time to look up my phone number but you couldn't find out from any other source what time it was?  OK, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt; the power went out and you were tired of seeing the blinking numbers so you decided to get out the phone book, close your eyes and call the lucky person who occupied the spot where your finger landed.  Thanks, that part of my life is gone.

"Hey, this is Leroy, can you give me the name of that shampoo that has the drugs in it...that you have been talking about...that you get at the convenience stores?"  I could only respond with; "what?"  After a little more babble and with the help of a woman hollering in the background I was able to determine that he was referring to the synthetic drugs commonly called "Bath Salts".  For some reason he thought it was shampoo with drugs.  I wanted to respond with Pert Plus?

It was the woman in the background who said something about "K12" that tipped me off.  I started to correct them by telling him it was K2 but by then the phone was well away from his ear as the two started to argue about something.  I kid you not, this one came in while I was typing this entry.

Many more calls and emails come in on a daily basis and I decided why should this time only be wasted on me?  Why not pass it on to those that are bored enough to read this?  Plus, it might just become a form of therapy for me.

Please understand, these are just a small portion of our viewers.