Pictures Of WTIR 1300 Cocoa Beach, FL

[SomeRadioGuy]

The main studio at WTIR-AM 1300 Cocoa Beach, FL back in 2005 when I worked there

"The Phantom" from RDS, a Gorman Redleich EAS and a crap-Rakkis console with several bulbs burned out that were still burned out 5 years after I left.
The station ran the audio from CNN Headline News TV with travel and weather features in between.

What a festering piece of crap this studio was, honest to god.

During extremely severe weather, shuttle launches or serious breaking news, I would re-tune the EAS tuner in that rack to my left and set it to 87.7FM, and pot it up on the board and rebroadcast WKMG-Channel 6 from Orlando.

This screen shot was taken from an 11 minute video tour I had given to Dave Edwards when I was the station manager back in 2005.. a tour and video I had totally forgot about.

Excuse the somewhat disheveled, sweaty Paul Walker in this screenshot.. this was done in the middle of the Florida summer in a building with very poor air-conditioning





WTIR's LPB Omni 5000A 5KW transmitter




The old Collins 21E

 

[seattlesarchiebunker]

Funny…never heard Arakkis stuff ever described as anything other than glorified junk.

Did they have any old WRKT/WSSP-FM artifacts floating around there? 104.1 was one of the rare urban “move-ins” back then. I know they were co-owned for quite a bit.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

Funny…never heard Arakkis stuff ever described as anything other than glorified junk.

Did they have any old WRKT/WSSP-FM artifacts floating around there? 104.1 was one of the rare urban “move-ins” back then. I know they were co-owned for quite a bit.

A few bumper stickers mainly, one on a toilet and a trash can, both in the transmitter room

And in a baxck room, a bunch of old phone wiring from when 102.7 was in the same building

 

[ok walters]

Funny…never heard Arakkis stuff ever described as anything other than glorified junk.

Did they have any old WRKT/WSSP-FM artifacts floating around there? 104.1 was one of the rare urban “move-ins” back then. I know they were co-owned for quite a bit.

Digistink Arrakishit is the Latin translation

 

[braleighapp]

Interesting shots. I worked there back in 1974-1975 when it was WRKT-AM/WRKT-FM (short period of time the FM had WKPE calls). It was a simulcast Top 40 format with Benjamin Hill as PD. Jim Sumpter did AM drive. I did overnights/nights. For the time the facility was decent...not showcase but workable. Mostly Collins equipment. Station sounded great under Ben's programming.

 

[Yabadabado1]

The main studio at WTIR-AM 1300 Cocoa Beach, FL back in 2005 when I worked there

"The Phantom" from RDS, a Gorman Redleich EAS and a crap-Rakkis console with several bulbs burned out that were still burned out 5 years after I left.
The station ran the audio from CNN Headline News TV with travel and weather features in between.

What a festering piece of crap this studio was, honest to god.

During extremely severe weather, shuttle launches or serious breaking news, I would re-tune the EAS tuner in that rack to my left and set it to 87.7FM, and pot it up on the board and rebroadcast WKMG-Channel 6 from Orlando.

This screen shot was taken from an 11 minute video tour I had given to Dave Edwards when I was the station manager back in 2005.. a tour and video I had totally forgot about.

Excuse the somewhat disheveled, sweaty Paul Walker in this screenshot.. this was done in the middle of the Florida summer in a building with very poor air-conditioning


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WTIR's LPB Omni 5000A 5KW transmitter

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The old Collins 21E

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I assume that's a beer can you're holding. Only way you could probably handle working in a dump like that.

 

[Yabadabado1]

Basically sounds sorta like station I worked at in Tampa. I've described here before about how a cockroach [probably actually a palmetto bug about the size of a VW Beetle but close enough to a cockroach for me] went skittering across a record while I was cuing it up. You could hear my screams on the other side of the state. I hate cockroaches due to a traumatic incident when I was a wee lad of five.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

I assume that's a beer can you're holding. Only way you could probably handle working in a dump like that.

Nope, i dont drink beef. Nasty stuff. It was soda.

 

[Tibbs4]

That's the ultimate form of "character building" there Paul. For you! Not the physical space for sure. Man, so many similar memories. You made i through that.
You can make it anywhere, right.

Heck, I have seen a few stations while tire kicking in recent years that would make this actually look mighty fiiiiiiinnnnnnnneeee.