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Nice and Quiet at WDCF This Morning

You were better off anyways, AudioVault sucks...


I was one happy camper when that happened. Then the owner at that time proceeded to try to screw the insurance company. He wanted me to take stuff that had been burned up years earlier and "sell" the adjuster on the fact that it had all been damaged by a single lightning stroke (of luck). The adjuster was too smart for that crap. They sent a guy with broadcast engineering experience. LOL!! ::)
 
druidhillsradio said:
I was one happy camper when that happened. Then the owner at that time proceeded to try to screw the insurance company. He wanted me to take stuff that had been burned up years earlier and "sell" the adjuster on the fact that it had all been damaged by a single lightning stroke (of luck). The adjuster was too smart for that crap. They sent a guy with broadcast engineering experience. LOL!! ::)
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Does not surprise me and I am sure I know who you are talking about. Probably the same person who damaged the equipment thinking he was an engineer and then blame his employees for damaging it. That system had three CD jukeboxes that the music was on and he would never get the number correct on the tracks that should be played or place them in the right positions in the jukebox. Those CD's would have other formats on them and you would end up with all kinds of formats played on the air. He would lock the employees out of the system so it could not be fixed.
 
WDCF..Ahh what memories. I remember them from back in the 70's when they were country, and as a matter of fact, so was WPAS. The difference was, WPAS always had better jocks, and a few well known Tampa personalities worked there too, while between jobs. I think Bob Neil, now a big whig at Cox Radio worked there too, when he was just a kid. WPAS was once called "top gun radio", whatever that meant.
It was in a mobile home on Hwy 301, after the building next door burned down. Some guy named Art Basie owned the station and some say he started the fire for insurance reasons.
Those were the days.
 
MisterNews said:
Most of the computer problems at Paxson were caused by the world's worst engineer, a fellow named "Jim", whose main talents were shrugging his shoulders and day-trading in his office. Then CC came in, recognized his "talents" and promoted him to Palm Beach. Last I heard, he was a big corporate "trainer" for them... Yeah.
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My favorite "Jim" story was when we moved WHNZ temporarily to the Reo Street building for a few months before they finished the new studio in the Gandy building.

"Jim" wired up half the control board in the temporary studio (in Mason Dixon's old office if I recall), while the real ClearChannel (formerly Jacor) engineers did the other half. You could tell which half was which by putting your feet under the console... move too far one way and your feet would literally get tangled up in dangling wires. Seems "Jim" didn't like tie-offs to band the wires so they weren't everywhere!
 
I always "enjoyed it" when the engineers at WHNZ proceeded to remove several modules from the console while you were on the air. Usually happened during the busiest time, i.e. 5-6pm.
 
ynot2k said:
"Jim" wired up half the control board in the temporary studio (in Mason Dixon's old office if I recall), while the real ClearChannel (formerly Jacor) engineers did the other half. You could tell which half was which by putting your feet under the console... move too far one way and your feet would literally get tangled up in dangling wires. Seems "Jim" didn't like tie-offs to band the wires so they weren't everywhere!
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David Sharp said:
I always "enjoyed it" when the engineers at WHNZ proceeded to remove several modules from the console while you were on the air. Usually happened during the busiest time, i.e. 5-6pm.
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Good ones! I'd forgotten those particular engineering "feets". The schizo studio at Reo St was certainly a crystal clear contrast in how the work should/shouldn't be done. "Jim" didn't use the tie-offs because it might take longer to remove them later, which would cut into his day-trading time. Oh, oh, I just remembered another "feet" from the "Jim" years-- At the former Paxson radio building, ALL the engineers walking over to lunch at Brophy's at the same time. You could see them out the windows from the traffic department: like the ducks waddling across the street at the Peabody Hotels. Leaving not one engineer in the building for emergencies, during the 2+ hour lunch period. You could always try calling them....

There was also the server re-boot sequence, which took approximately 45 minutes or so, during which nothing worked. And that needed to happen at least once a day. And of course the board module removals always occurred (noisily) during the absolute busiest times of day. You'd be anchoring an all-news hour, with the mic open every few seconds, and some engineer would be crouched behind the board yelling into a tube. I think that was related to "Jim"s internet set-up. When ClearChannel engineering ace Tom Martinkovic first asked me when would be the best time to schedule some work in the air studio, and we'll be as quick as possible, I realized the station had finally gotten a professional radio engineer.
 
Here's another one: I believe the group was still owned by Paxson when this happened... ALL of the stations went off the air one evening around 10 o'clock, I believe this was so a back-up generator could be installed. Plan was, have all the engineers on the project and all the stations back on the air prior to 6am morning drive. For whatever reason, it didn't happen. I was working overnights then, I was "out the door" at 6 but have to think at least an hour of drive was lost on ALL the stations. I believe this was 570 WHNZ, 820 The Team, 94.1 WSJT, Jo 101.5 and WHPT 102.5. Always wondered just how much revenue was lost that morning with everyone off the air... It may have also impacted WXPX Channel 66, which was in the same building.
 
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