The Joy of a Plutonic Relationship
It wasn’t my worst on-the-air gaffe, but might be the funniest. I worked in radio full time from late 1973 through 1977, and part-time occasionally after that. Not everything went as planned. It’s hard to spend hundreds of hours doing live radio without occasionally slipping on a rhetorical banana peel.
When I was Public Affairs Director for KTUC-AM radio, my duties included traveling to the newsroom of the late Tucson Citizen for early morning newscasts. I would read the Citizen’s news copy on the air before the stories hit print. Each newscast began when the studio announcer said something like, “What are today’s headlines?” or “What’s in today’s Tucson Citizen?” I would then lead with a story that would run in print later.
One day, this happened:
Bill (back at the studio): “What’s the latest from the Citizen, Mike?”
Me: “Big news in science, Bill. Astronomers have discovered rings around Uranus.”
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