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jimbo700
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I have been rewiring one of our studios during the past few weeks and today I grabbed a bulk tape eraser off the shelf and asked our Ops Mgr if I could trash it (since we do not have a single tape machine of any kind in our building).
He said to stick it in a storage closet.
As I left the studio area, I decided to ask everyone there, which included nearly all 7 full-time jocks and the news-dude if they knew what it was.
Only one person did and even though he started radio in 1999, they had antiquated equipment and still used carts.
I also asked several if they knew how a splicing block, grease pencil and razor blade related to radio and again, only one person knew the answer.
This just struck me as funny because it seems like yesterday we spent hours in the production room with a reel of tape, grease pencil, splicing tape, a razor blade and a splice block to create a 30 second promo.
As for the bulk eraser, it was used to quickly erase a cart or reel tape.... not to mention, if you got "blown out" and had the opportunity, you could take the bulk eraser and run it up and down the rack that contained the music and/or commercials. It was referred to as "bulking the cart rack" when you got fired. It trashed all of the audio on the carts. When they went to digital, the equivalent to bulking the cart rack was to do a "global delete" on the server (if it was running MS DOS or UNIX). Now, even a computer-savvy person would have a hard time permanently destroying the audio library.
I want to make it clear that in 37 years of radio (off and on) and 9 stations, I have never been fired (this this too shall pass) so I never did any of the above. I just thought Chief Engineer, Bob On The Job, Flying-Dutchman and other old-timers on here might appreciate the humor in this.
He said to stick it in a storage closet.
As I left the studio area, I decided to ask everyone there, which included nearly all 7 full-time jocks and the news-dude if they knew what it was.
Only one person did and even though he started radio in 1999, they had antiquated equipment and still used carts.
I also asked several if they knew how a splicing block, grease pencil and razor blade related to radio and again, only one person knew the answer.
This just struck me as funny because it seems like yesterday we spent hours in the production room with a reel of tape, grease pencil, splicing tape, a razor blade and a splice block to create a 30 second promo.
As for the bulk eraser, it was used to quickly erase a cart or reel tape.... not to mention, if you got "blown out" and had the opportunity, you could take the bulk eraser and run it up and down the rack that contained the music and/or commercials. It was referred to as "bulking the cart rack" when you got fired. It trashed all of the audio on the carts. When they went to digital, the equivalent to bulking the cart rack was to do a "global delete" on the server (if it was running MS DOS or UNIX). Now, even a computer-savvy person would have a hard time permanently destroying the audio library.
I want to make it clear that in 37 years of radio (off and on) and 9 stations, I have never been fired (this this too shall pass) so I never did any of the above. I just thought Chief Engineer, Bob On The Job, Flying-Dutchman and other old-timers on here might appreciate the humor in this.
It took me 2 hours to create a : 30 so second spot usin.g all the tools of the trade . Everyone had an appreciation for a well produced bit. As for being a old timer, this was in 1981.
