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Are there any major stations that DON'T do voice-tracking and are 100% live?

TexasTom said:
I know that the last of the Stereo Rock stations that I listened to (KDSQ 101.7 in Denison/Sherman, TX) dropped the format in 1990 because their tape automation gear was getting worn out and needed to be replaced. Rather than do that, they dumped the format in favor of SMN's dreadful "The Heat" Top 40 format.
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After the station that hired me for my first PD gig was sold in 1981, I was hired as the APD for the market's Stereo Rock station, largely based on my knowledge of the Schafer 903, which both stations had in common (our PD was a little confused by how it worked, and it was only after I got there that we managed to automate the tape delay of the hourly newscast from The Source without someone having to take the cart out of the recorder and put it in a carousel tray). Plus he got, as a bonus, a decent PM drive jock for our live AM country station.

They dumped Stereo Rock shortly after I left in favor of Transtar, which would have been late 1983 or early 1984. I'm sure of the timeline because I ended up at my previous station again by Labor Day 1984 ... only to leave in mid-January because I was in the middle of an argument between corporate and our GM (the former wanted us to go more AC, the latter kept insisting he could make CHR work; I was capable of doing either but the marching orders changed three times a week).
 


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