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Goodtimesandgreatoldies
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Yes, I really like the boo drops, they are so neat. I remember for years CBS-TV feed out of New York had this and you could many times here it on WAGA TV 5 and other CBS stations!
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touchandgo
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I worked for CC in Atlanta back in the day. If you are THINKING cheesy cheap seedy stuff is going on, IT'S GOING ON!!
CC Atlanta is a Joke.
CC Atlanta is a Joke.
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kyscott
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jabba17 said:
I remember the ABC Information Network having the chirps at the end of their shows. As others have said, Mutual had the "bee doop" sounder.
BTW, what are you up to these days, Richard?
taylorengineer said:
Lud used DTMF until at least a few years ago, but I think it's been abandoned now. They do pass subaudibles... that's what we use to automate his show.
GNN used DTMFs back as late as 2000 (probably later, but that's the date on a disc o' sounders I have that still have DTMFs on them).
Always loved tones, so I had our GRNS engineer Jim Gantner build one that we could use and sound like a national network. It was a square red button in the middle of the control board. Trouble is, it sounded more like a duck whose foot was getting stepped on. Boo-weep! I remember touring the ABC Radio Network studios in 1976 and watching them do an FM newscast (big thrill), and seeing the engineer hit the tone button leading into the newscast, and the trip tone button into and out of the commercial.
Richard said he could get copies of the original GRNS sounders (thank your Richard and would also appreciate the ABC package.. lost mine over the years). I thought Jay Braswell might have the old Georgia Network sounders (tin can era). I emailed him and the address I have bounced. Anybody know if he is on the board or an current email address? If so, please send me a private message.
I understand Don Kennedy was also involved in setting up the Florida Network around 1978. Did he use broadcast loops for GN? I've been told the Florida Network was all non-broadcast "hoot and holler" lines (4-wire pairs) of the type used by stockbrokers for "squawk box" calls, or by auto junkyards looking for parts. They stuck a lot of equalization on the headend to try to make it listenable, but it just ended up boomier in some locations and barky with an elbow-filter sound in others.
Interesting about the 4-pair. Never heard of that. GRNS and GN had class C lines, which sounded horrible because it offered no high end response. We worked closely with Southern Bell and one woman, Helen Kilpatrick, who has a building named for her near the Mansion in midtown. Occasionally, she fed us gossip about GN because she liked Paul Stone, GRNS's General Manager and GN's former GM.
Don Kennedy and partners owned the Florida Network. He also owned the Georgia AgriNet with Everett Griner in Moultrie. GRNS brought Everett in when GN folded, and while Everett was a fine man, we were never able to monetize his programming.
Somebody asked what I'm up to now that I'm out of radio. I own an interactive marketing and web development company called What's Up Interactive and host "Georgia's Business" on GPTV.
Don Kennedy and partners owned the Florida Network. He also owned the Georgia AgriNet with Everett Griner in Moultrie. GRNS brought Everett in when GN folded, and while Everett was a fine man, we were never able to monetize his programming.
Somebody asked what I'm up to now that I'm out of radio. I own an interactive marketing and web development company called What's Up Interactive and host "Georgia's Business" on GPTV.
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makemineblatz
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I think there's one of those old sounders on the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame web site in their audio stuff.
makemineblatz said:
It is there:
http://www.grhof.com/GANETWORKNEWSOUNDERBOT .mp3
Too bad they water marked it with audio. Maybe it is a copyright issue... although, after 30 years, I would not think that is still an issue.
Sorry to post again... 
There is another version of the same GN sounder that has the bong at the beginning. GN would feed that version down the line to stations that wanted it so it would have the same crappy phone line sound and would match the network. Stations would start the cart version that had the bong in the beginning, give a station ID or five second commercial while fading in the network. Would sound like one continuious sounder. If you were a good DJ and back timed properly, the "record" would end with a tight intro into the network.
There is another version of the same GN sounder that has the bong at the beginning. GN would feed that version down the line to stations that wanted it so it would have the same crappy phone line sound and would match the network. Stations would start the cart version that had the bong in the beginning, give a station ID or five second commercial while fading in the network. Would sound like one continuious sounder. If you were a good DJ and back timed properly, the "record" would end with a tight intro into the network.
Backtiming...I guess that's a lost art these days...
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kyscott
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ricksegers said:
Back timing? You have to know how to operate a board properly before you can back time. And from what I can tell, there are not any good board ops left.
Records had a colored dot (or some other code) to indicate whether they ended hard or faded. I always found it a personal challenge every half hour to have a hard ending record to take me into the network news.... and be dead on the money. I did not always make it, but that was always the goal... and there was fun in doing that. I guess that was the video game of my day.
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