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FM100 - 40 years ago

radiosaur said:
Hear hear, Meep!

Scott...Apparently you've gotten lost. Here's your way back:

http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?board=241.0

You're welcome.

Don't tell me, you're one of those old dudes that calls me up and ask me questions such as " Don't you have real, live D.J's spinning the platters anymore"? I told him the platter is now a collection plate and why not make a contribution?

So explain, you must email and throw stones at every digital software radio automation company out there. Scott Studio's, Digital Juke Box, Broadcast Software International, are here to stay. I would LOVE Dave Scott and Jim Barcus to jump in on this. Blame them, they are the ones whom have developed "digital automation", cutting the expense of running a small outfit.
 
scottwmro said:
radiosaur said:
Hear hear, Meep!

Scott...Apparently you've gotten lost. Here's your way back:

http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?board=241.0

You're welcome.

Don't tell me, you're one of those old dudes that calls me up and ask me questions such as " Don't you have real, live D.J's spinning the platters anymore"? I told him the platter is now a collection plate and why not make a contribution?

So explain, you must email and throw stones at every digital software radio automation company out there. Scott Studio's, Digital Juke Box, Broadcast Software International, are here to stay. I would LOVE Dave Scott and Jim Barcus to jump in on this. Blame them, they are the ones whom have developed "digital automation", cutting the expense of running a small outfit.

Dude, unwad your panties, OK?

I don't recall ever throwing stones at the automation companies. Automation has been around ever since you and I were in diapers. No one I know is bashing the technology either. I would love to see live, talented local personalities taking advantage of every bit of technology they can to make the art form better. THAT's what we are lamenting, the death of personality radio as a performance art.

It's an assembly line product now. Radio McDonald's, and I don't care for it.

You want to automate, fine, I hope you make a ton of money with it. But don't come over here and start throwing around labels.
 
It always seemed to me that voice tracking should be the hardest work any air-talent could ever do. However, in my experience, I found that voice-trackers grew bored with their work and invested less and less effort in it. Over time, it became the creature we all love to hate, but save some blame for the vocal cords involved.

Automation is not the killer of radio so many believe it to be. I started with it back in the early '70s with a Schaefer 903, a couple of banks of InstaCarts and 4 Revox's loaded with Great American Country on WZXR...the forerunner to Rock 103. It sucked then because we didn't know what the hell we were doing. Automation sucks now...for the same reason! As the Kingston Trio sang:

“You’ve got to prime the pump, you must have faith and believe”
“You’ve got to give of yourself ‘fore you’re worthy to receive”
“Drink all the water you can hold, wash your face, cool your feet”
“Leave the bottle full for others, Thank You kindly, Desert Pete”
 
scottwrmo, we're not low-rating you for having the good sense to use whatever tech facilities you can, to make your operation work. But it seems like you locked on, early, to the idea that when we take it "back in the day," we're wanting to actually put the industry back to the same technical, legal and competitive conditions as when we were having all that fun (conveniently editing out, of course, all the days we had to come back after that hot date, just to do those five spots we'd blown off; or the other parts that wouldn't feel anywhere nearly so "groovy" here in the 40-year future). Not at all, bruh. We're just trying to share with some of our fellow (and even, one or two [usister[/u]) travelers of that time, how much joy this silly old business gave us,
even as we were dragged, kicking and screaming, into an admission that it was a business. And, at least for this writer, there's a hope that some of that joy can come through to the new generation, so they can maybe want to find that spark of humanity, and fun, and even corny as it will sound, service to our listeners...that we were lucky enough to be here at just the right time to experience.
 
kudzooter said:
scottwrmo, we're not low-rating you for having the good sense to use whatever tech facilities you can, to make your operation work. But it seems like you locked on, early, to the idea that when we take it "back in the day," we're wanting to actually put the industry back to the same technical, legal and competitive conditions as when we were having all that fun (conveniently editing out, of course, all the days we had to come back after that hot date, just to do those five spots we'd blown off; or the other parts that wouldn't feel anywhere nearly so "groovy" here in the 40-year future). Not at all, bruh. We're just trying to share with some of our fellow (and even, one or two [usister[/u]) travelers of that time, how much joy this silly old business gave us,
even as we were dragged, kicking and screaming, into an admission that it was a business. And, at least for this writer, there's a hope that some of that joy can come through to the new generation, so they can maybe want to find that spark of humanity, and fun, and even corny as it will sound, service to our listeners...that we were lucky enough to be here at just the right time to experience.
 
Wow...looks like things got out of hand.

I really hate to hear someone say "I don't need any help from any one." Sad.

I think the man that started this board was remembering some good times he had many years ago. I know several folks who have posted here...Steven, Bubba Jon Scott, Scooter Seagraves, Alan Tynes, Flash, Phillip R., Rob Grayson, and many others ...and I don't think any of us are living in the past.

I'm proud I was there...I'm proud to be where I am today. I'm very thankful to call the above mentioned guys-and many more from that time-friends. Some of us were competitors...but we're still friends.

We had a lot of fun 40 years ago and some folks are interested in some of the details. That's all. Let's lighten up and have some fun.

As Dean Osmundson (GM of WMC AM & FM) used to say (to his wife) at the annual company Holiday party about the time he poured an extra bottle of Jack into the punch, "Oh hell, Mother! It's Christmas!"

greg hamilton
 
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