• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

1010 WINS moving downtown

Ted Russell further clarified:

Well, It goes way beyond the Management. The original plan had the various stations moving in at a quicker pace. The technical staff (engineers in the trenches) made the case to management that it would be best not to rush the procedures. At that point Kudos to Engineering Management and also the program management at the various stations for listening to the engineering staff and revising the move schedule to a workable pace.
Click to expand...

Wow! It's awesome that in this day and age, there is still a company whose management still listens to engineers in the trenches.

Also, keep in mind that in several instances just because the program operation hasn't moved doesn't neccessarily mean that business operations haven't. I believe they moved sales and other business personnel in to some degree. I'm not sure about FAN and WINS, but there were people working in the offices of the new NOW facility a week or two before the new studios went live.

All in all the facility is impressive just by the sheer magnitude of the operation.
Click to expand...

Impressive, indeed! This new place must be really fun to work in and broadcast from!
 
I hope someone have pics of the new place, so 1010 WINS don't mention about the move on there website and on air. The other stations do.
 
The cut-over was today at Noon. There were a few kinks during the first half hour. Pete Tauriello's traffic report from Shadow in East Rutherford didn't connect (he later used a phone line), neither did Doug Thompson's Sports feature. Anchor Larry Cantor (sp?) said "we're in brand new studios today, so bare with us."
 
CBS has leased the 10th, and part of the 11th floor at 345 Hudson Street (between Charlton and King Streets, a block south of Houston). The area has been dubbed Hudson Square by realtors. WNYC is a block away at 160 Varick Street.

The only CBS-owned station not moving is NewsRadio 880 which stays at the Broadcast Center, 524 West 57th Street
 
Cosmopolite reported:

The cut-over was today at Noon. There were a few kinks during the first half hour. Pete Tauriello's traffic report from Shadow in East Rutherford didn't connect (he later used a phone line), neither did Doug Thompson's Sports feature. Anchor Larry Cantor (sp?) said "we're in brand new studios today, so bare with us."
Click to expand...

They sure didn't sound like they were having fun, but do you really think that Larry Cantor wanted his listeners to believe that everybody there had decided to broadcast without clothes on?

I've heard that there are a battery of Field Ops guys at CBS Radio who can come to aid of their local engineers and IT folks. In a time of need, where's a talented Field Ops boss when you need one?

I heard that Newsradio 880 was moving to Hudson Street too.
 
Cal Stymes reported:
Cal Stymes said:
...do you really think that Larry Cantor wanted his listeners to believe that everybody there had decided to broadcast without clothes on?
Click to expand...
I've heard there are problems with the air conditioning at Hudson Street. If the AC was broken, that would explain why they decided to broadcast without clothes.
 
The livestream sounded very 'flat and dry' they don't move the processing and the teletype sounds yet? Also lots of dead air still.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom