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New Studios for 1120 AM

Let's see....1120 started in Bristol, moved their studios to New Britain, then Hartford, now back to New Britain. Maybe the next step will be to return to Bristol where it belongs.\

Ah yes, Huber. The idiot who ruined WBIS and threw it in to the toilet.
 
Nice to know that they'll be insde a freakin' factory building. Won't that be good? :(
 
Kevin Lagasse said:
Nice to know that they'll be inside a freakin' factory building. Won't that be good? :(
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That was my first reaction when I found out about their move yesterday, before it was in the paper this morning. I found out about their move from DJ Kool G Dee's Myspace Page. There's a WPRX logo on it that says 321 Ellis Street on it. Though I'm not very familiar with New Britain I do know that Ellis Street is an idustrial area and my first reaction when I saw the address, is Why The heck is a radio station doing in a factory?
 
It's the old Harris Building, used to be a factory, not much of that going on there these days as it's been gutted and split up for offices now. Possibly a very cheap rent.
 
To DJ Jim Wayne,

They're not using the Collins board that they used @1440.

Why did you find that a nightmare?

I had no problems w/it, & sometimes preferred it to some slide-pot boards I used.

Thanks
 
I worked at WBIS for ten years, 1976-86, and never had a problem with the Collins board in the control room. It was a great board to use and reliable as hell. The nightmare board, if you will, was the small Gates board in the production room! That Gates board, by the way, is on display at the radio museum whose name and location escape me at the moment. Somewhere in CT. I'm told it still has the Dymo labels I made for it still on it!
 
Don Moline said:
I worked at WBIS for ten years, 1976-86, and never had a problem with the Collins board in the control room. It was a great board to use and reliable as hell. The nightmare board, if you will, was the small Gates board in the production room! That Gates board, by the way, is on display at the radio museum whose name and location escape me at the moment. Somewhere in CT. I'm told it still has the Dymo labels I made for it still on it!
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Did you work there when Jim Huber owned it?
 
>>>Did you work there when Jim Huber owned it?<<<

No, I worked there under Dave Rogers and later Mike Hassan. Mike sold the station after it went off the air in May '86 to the Idiot Huber. Only person Huber hired back was former morning newsman Brian Dow, who was made the morning DJ. Then over the next several years Huber ran the station into the ground, finally leasing it and then selling it. There was talk a number of times of a local Bristol group wanting to buy the station and bring it back to Bristol, but that still hasn't happened.
 
Don Moline said:
>>>Did you work there when Jim Huber owned it?<<<

No, I worked there under Dave Rogers and later Mike Hassan. Mike sold the station after it went off the air in May '86 to the Idiot Huber. Only person Huber hired back was former morning newsman Brian Dow, who was made the morning DJ. Then over the next several years Huber ran the station into the ground, finally leasing it and then selling it. There was talk a number of times of a local Bristol group wanting to buy the station and bring it back to Bristol, but that still hasn't happened.
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Jim Huber. A dead ringer for Homer Simpson. D'oh! ;D

As I alluded to on another thread here, supposedly, the "last straw" for Huber at WBIS was when he tried to move the studios out of 1021 Farmington Avenue to another building closer to his home in Bristol. The idea was that he could walk to work and then later drop by the station while walking his dog to re-set the automation. Problem was he did all that without zoning approval...the location was not zoned for a radio station.

As I've also alluded on yet another thread, I still have a WBIS bumper sticker.
 
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