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weiner said:
I think in the old metro bldg on Arden
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Having worked in that building - as an evening news fill-in while still at KFBK, working out of Metro - there's no way, unless they took more space :)

Another thread says CC Sacramento is moving to River Park Drive, the same street where Salem's studios are located, but a different building.

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=211451.0

Sigh...still gonna miss Ethan Way. A lot of GREAT radio came out of there.

As they're getting ready to vacate the building, they're probably finding stuff I left behind back in 2001...
 
MPWard said:
weiner said:
I think in the old metro bldg on Arden
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Having worked in that building - as an evening news fill-in while still at KFBK, working out of Metro - there's no way, unless they took more space :)

Another thread says CC Sacramento is moving to River Park Drive, the same street where Salem's studios are located, but a different building.

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=211451.0

Sigh...still gonna miss Ethan Way. A lot of GREAT radio came out of there.

As they're getting ready to vacate the building, they're probably finding stuff I left behind back in 2001...
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Is this Mike Ward?
 
MPWard said:
stewie said:
Is this Mike Ward?
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Yes, it is...now in my hometown of Akron, Ohio, working for the local radio newsroom here...
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We never worked together but we've been on the boards together for many years. I too have a lot of memories of Ethan Way. Some good, some bad.
 
stewie said:
Do you know when they start broadcasting from there?
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Hi, stewie!

They started on Friday...there's a whole chunk of videos on the KFBK site now.

I highly recommend Kerry Shearer's video from the "move" Thursday night.

I have nearly all great memories of 1440 Ethan Way, but the move was LONG overdue. Even in the mid-1990s, there were times we felt we were broadcasting from studios stuck in the early 1980s...
 
MPWard said:
stewie said:
Do you know when they start broadcasting from there?
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Hi, stewie!

They started on Friday...there's a whole chunk of videos on the KFBK site now.

I highly recommend Kerry Shearer's video from the "move" Thursday night.

I have nearly all great memories of 1440 Ethan Way, but the move was LONG overdue. Even in the mid-1990s, there were times we felt we were broadcasting from studios stuck in the early 1980s...
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Long long long overdue! :)
 
stewie said:
Long long long overdue! :)
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My favorite "dated memory" at Ethan Way actually started before I got there in 1994.

KFBK and KGBY (ex-KAER, now, of course, KFBK-FM) were owned by Group W, Westinghouse Broadcasting...sold to the brand new Chancellor Radio just weeks before I showed up.

Anything that didn't move, and perhaps some things that did, got a Westinghouse inventory tag attached to it.

I have no doubt that many of those tags managed to survive right up until last week's move!
 
MPWard said:
stewie said:
Long long long overdue! :)
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My favorite "dated memory" at Ethan Way actually started before I got there in 1994.

KFBK and KGBY (ex-KAER, now, of course, KFBK-FM) were owned by Group W, Westinghouse Broadcasting...sold to the brand new Chancellor Radio just weeks before I showed up.

Anything that didn't move, and perhaps some things that did, got a Westinghouse inventory tag attached to it.

I have no doubt that many of those tags managed to survive right up until last week's move!
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Many of those tags were still there in 2005 when I departed. :)

The good news: KFBK-FM is now in stereo!!!
 
Commented on "stereo KFBK" in your other thread.

It took some time to take the Group W out of Ethan Way. For about a year after I showed up, we were still hooked up to the Group W satellite feed where reporters fed stories to the entire group, and many of those reporters continued to use "KFBK NewsRadio 1530" lockouts (along with the rest of the still-existing stations) until the day that feed was taken out.

We had a cassette machine in the newsroom pit that automatically recorded the Westinghouse/Group W reports, presumably triggered by some sort of audio cue.

As for the tags, I wonder if some of the more recent employees at Ethan Way even knew what they were...
 
MPWard said:
Commented on "stereo KFBK" in your other thread.

It took some time to take the Group W out of Ethan Way. For about a year after I showed up, we were still hooked up to the Group W satellite feed where reporters fed stories to the entire group, and many of those reporters continued to use "KFBK NewsRadio 1530" lockouts (along with the rest of the still-existing stations) until the day that feed was taken out.

We had a cassette machine in the newsroom pit that automatically recorded the Westinghouse/Group W reports, presumably triggered by some sort of audio cue.

As for the tags, I wonder if some of the more recent employees at Ethan Way even knew what they were...
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I found equipment on site that had McClatchy asset tags. :) The backup KFBK transmitter still (to this day as far as I know) has a McClatchy tag on it.
 
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