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1110 New Format
- Thread starter amos1001
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I'm gonna be honest with y'all, I knew I missed radio and I'm pretty sure the bug has bit me for life, but I didn't realize how much all that's the case, until Daniel found those tapes in the basement I mentioned the other day. Hearing some of those comp tapes I made and my DJing on the afterthought aircheck and other tapes in the stack as it were, brought so many memories back to me: what the boards/studios looked like, the equipment, tricks of the trade and stories abound. As I've said before about other topics, it's all up there in my head and all it takes, is something said, etc, to bring it all back.
I got to live the dream for a while so I’m thankful. I too realized how much I missed the radio of my generation when I agreed to upload some audio CD’s to SoundCloud for a friend of mine, mostly air checks, jingle packages, etc. I had to convert them to MP3’s and in some cases join the tracks together. Once I discovered how to do it in Audacity it was a breeze.
As for 1110 WBT I never imagined I’d work there in ANY capacity. Other than H.A. Thompson there was an unwritten rule that if you had worked at WSOC you had a slim chance of ever working at WBT.
It’s sad on a personal level because of the rich history connected with 1110 WBT. There were just so many things the station did the right way. Technically too everything worked easily and flawlessly. The geek in me marveled at the switching matrix which allowed the jock to feed sources like mics, 2-way, telephone, reel to reels, network into any number of combinations all by push button control without using the audition side of the console. You’d have to see it to apprreciate it. Sadly I don’t believe they have it anymore.
Whatever the new format is I doubt it will appeal to me. I like Talk that isn't political. Save that for the other old guys at the barber shop. '50's-'60's- '70's oldies would be nice but doubtful.
They called it a 'latching cross point switcher'. It was built in house and did work great. Unless you made a mistake and had two sources feeding something. You could foul up a recording pretty fast.
When they remodeled the studio it disappeared. I asked if I could have it and one of the ITC Premium cart machines. I was told they were thrown away. A sad day.
Roger on all that. I enjoy sound editing, as well. I am an avid podcaster, please check out my signature for some details. Re: putting CD cuts together, ya know the max number of cuts allowed on an audio CD? It's ninety-nine and I have put them together a few times, to post certain messages. Most of said cuts were like ten or fifteen seconds long, with the longest being ten to fifteen minutes. It's all part of it, though.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
They threw away a cart machine? Sacrilegious.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I have several imaging production libraries where the original CDs have 99 tracks each. Happens a lot with things like shout add-ons for jingles, quick instrumental stingers, a capellas, etc.
OKAY - tomorrow is March 1 or maybe it will be MONDAY, March 2.
You’re right, probably not…
You’re right, probably not…
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Wait ... you mean maybe tomorrow might be March 2?
This daylight saving time thing has gone too far.
))Roger on that, makes sense. Speaking of radio cuts and CDs, was putting some old cuts from an ancient station way to the east of me, on a CD for a radio mentor, some years ago and actually maxed out before I was done LOL.
Back when I worked in radio, the only good thing about springing forward, was I'd get to stay on later. Of course, I went in an hour later then too, argh. Honestly, I just wish it'd fall back and we'd leave it there. I believe the state reps have tried and failed a few bills with that, one way or the other.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I wouldn't mind doing away with "spring ahead" and "fall back" but putting us on year-round Daylight Savings Time would offset us by one hour from Canada, Mexico, and South America half of the year.
And then there's Arizona and Hawaii, which do not honor DST, which is their legal right. You tell them we're taking that decision away from them ... I wouldn't deliver that message if it were at the end of a ten-foot pole.
No need for nationwide DST. Standard time in all states year-round matches our longitudes for the most part. DST is a concept that should have been done away with after World War II.
Hawaii is in the middle of the Pacific. There is no need for DST there. Here in Arizona, we tried it 60 years ago, and it was decided that nobody wanted the sun to go down at 9:30 PM in the middle of the summer, when temperatures are well over 100 in metro Phoenix and Tucson, where 80% of the state's population lives.
Note: The Navajo Nation is the one exception in AZ that does observe DST, because parts of it are in 3 other states that do observe it. But they're in a much cooler climate, so the afternoon heat is not so bad. But that would be moot if all states just stayed on standard time.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
It occurs to me, when reading that, that even year-round Standard Time would create an offset for half the year from the other countries in the four time zones that cover the continental U.S. That would be all but three of the Canadian provinces, Cuba and the other Caribbean nations, and most of Chile (excluding the southernmost three states).
I don't think there is a solution that would eliminate the problem completely.
That is a hoot!
I was surprised that Cuba matches the U.S.'s time change dates, though they change at 1am, not 2. I know that from Radio Reloj LOL.
Any state can opt out of DST at any time with no federal approval. They can't go on year-round DST, that would take federal legislation. I get a kick out of year-round DST people claiming it would be light at 9pm in January though.