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masterg said:
Seems to me there used to be an apartment upstairs in that building. If it's the building I think it is, a WARM newsie used to live in that apartment...
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Yes, there was an apartment up there but by the time I saw it you wouldn't even want to keep farm animals or your worst enemy up there - pretty bad...

EN
 
That was actually the second location for WTLQ. The first was in the Insalaco building in Pittston. As per the second location, the Lomardo boys actually did a nice job of fixing up the first floor of that building (especially the marbel on the bathroom floor). When I was there, the second floor wasn't that bad, and there were rumors about a spa/hot tub in Dr Lombardo's office next door. It was a great location though. You could put on a 4 minute song, run across the highway for 2 hot dogs (all I could afford) and be back before the song ended.

WYZZ was in the "rolling mill hill" section of Wilkes-Barre, not the heights. The most fun was watching Ron Scacht driving up that hill in the middle of a snow storm, on a motorcycle.
 
NigelWick said:
It wasn't there long, but WKGB 92.5 got its start in a modular home just off the Great Bend/Hallstead exit of Interstate 81. It's now somewhere in Binghamton.
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Actually WKGB belongs to Cheap Channel now, and is in the CC group building on Jensen Road in Vestal, NY which is west of Binghamton. The XMTR is now on the WINR-AM towers which can be seen on Route 81 North as you are entering Binghamton.
 
ThomasCarten said:
Even the radio types can't agree on whether or not this is a useful talent. I find it amazing myself. archaic, but still amazing.
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It's nothing but an ego trip. I can smack this sucker and every one of them. I can slap the net so hard they can hear it back at their mic. I know every note on every intro of every song on our playlist.

Watch me.
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You sound like a group of Ford Motor employees suggesting that the cure for Ford's business woes is to bring back the Model-T. Those days are gone. Listeners don't care. Let's move into the 21st century.
 
Those days are gone. Listeners don't care.
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Not only do they not care, they're not caring in fewer and fewer numbers. Radio listenership ain't what it used to be, and the reasons are myriad. Personally, I say that the excitement that was bled and bred out of radio over the last 15-20 years is one of the reasons - working in radio, listening to radio, simply isn't fun anymore. I was at the dentist this morning, Magic 93 is on their sound system - boring, boring, boring. Sitting in the chair for roughly three-quarters of an hour, I swear I didn't once hear a live voice, didn't once hear a name. It fits no definition of entertainment...
 
Mack184...

Let me explain it in words of one syllable...

Quoting myself:

It's nothing but an ego trip. I can smack this sucker and every one of them. I can slap the net so hard they can hear it back at their mic. I know every note on every intro of every song on our playlist. Watch me.
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It's what was in the head of the dj's back then when that stuff was a show-off trip. I made a joke ... and I hate Fords.

(One syllable, every word.)
 
Glory days...

Springsteen, 1984, charted up to number 5 nationally, Columbia records from album "Born In the USA", one of 7 top ten hits from that LP.

Glory days well they'll pass you by
Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye
Glory days, glory days

Yonkstur
 
hitting posts, glory days, studio locations and an observation on this board

Guys,
I enjoy reading your interesting posts. I agree with a lot but not all of your banter. As for talking up records and hitting posts, try big Ron O'Brien at WOGL in Philadelphia.They stream at WOGL.com.While most of the jocks there do a fine job of keeping the feel of the glory days of Top 40 alive, Ron is the epitomy of Bright, Tight and Outasite.
Most of you regular posters are entertaining, intelligent and true radiophiles. You should have a Yonkstur booksigning( or something like that) get together sometime.
While I don't usually post, I will tell you that despite the harshness of the business today and the fact that consolidation has not made it better for either the listeners or the journeymen( and women) broadcasters , it's still a great business. As someone who tries to not only keep my own passion for radio alive( for almost three decades) and to find, hire and inspire aspiring young broadcasters, the business of radio still has a bright future ahead.Just a different one.
 
crmc...

I read your post and just by it's reading, I'd bet my left onion I know who you are!
 
masterg said:
Those days are gone. Listeners don't care.
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Not only do they not care, they're not caring in fewer and fewer numbers. Radio listenership ain't what it used to be, and the reasons are myriad. Personally, I say that the excitement that was bled and bred out of radio over the last 15-20 years is one of the reasons - working in radio, listening to radio, simply isn't fun anymore. I was at the dentist this morning, Magic 93 is on their sound system - boring, boring, boring. Sitting in the chair for roughly three-quarters of an hour, I swear I didn't once hear a live voice, didn't once hear a name. It fits no definition of entertainment...
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A recent Arbitron study says people are not turning away from terrstrial (sp?) radio in droves in fact something like 80% still listen in their cars. About 70% listen at work. Sorry for not being specific, but I don't have the article in front of me now. Also, I know people question Arbitron (unless they had a good book), but even with their flawed surveys, that's still a great percentage of listeners. I've heard too many naysayers in all the years. First it was the recordable 8 track, then the cassette, then cd's...People still want to hear a voice, local info, maybe something funny or entertaining. Can't get that from shuffle on an ipod.
 
masterg said:
Urban legend has it that the Edwardsville police were getting too many fender benders or that the guys had too much sun in their eyes.
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Wrong!!! It's wasn't a sun issue at all. One of the many GMs, this one (Dick Booth) thought you could hear Rt. 11 through the windows, which was nonsense, but everything he did was. He also took out the custom built slider board and got a rotary dial RCA board that was horrible. Everytime the jock keyed the mic, you could hear the nose on the air. He trashed most of the oldies library and the custom slider board ended up outside in the back of the building. It was eventually sold to someone for a couple of hundred dollars. What a shame. The station also went through 22 employees in a 2 year period, 4 GMs and dozens of sales people. Merv didn't loose that station. It was one of the few his ex wife didn't take in the divorce. She only wanted the ones that made money like WMID, WPOP in Hartford and WENE, Endicott.
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Dick Booth was one of the true idiots in local broadcast history. My first day interning there, he fired Rick Walker right in front of me. I have this fantasy that Booth is driving through the Wyoming Valley with a few drinks in him and Rick, now a law enforcement officer, pulls him over.
Booth also was rough on sales people too. JUst a mean spirited guy who thought he knew everything. His successor was Dave Donlin from Hazleton.
yonkstur
 
I know a former WBAX employee who tells a great story about watching, through the big window, the used car dealer next door get punched in the face by an angry customer.
 
NigelWick said:
I know a former WBAX employee who tells a great story about watching, through the big window, the used car dealer next door get punched in the face by an angry customer.
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Nigel, OMG!!! That's right. I think it was called Ray's Used Car lot. Ray sold some lemons at that lot. AH! the gold old days.
 
"Honest Ray Karalunas" I watched many expensive cars pull up to that place, occupants enter the "shack" for a few minutes and leave without purchasing any of the fine autos on the lot. Either Ray was a bad closer or he was selling something else! Not to support Dick Booth, whom I never knew, the Fairchild custom boards had lived out their useful lives. Some of the internal functions had stopped working and the opto-faders were snagging and hard to move. By the time I got to BAX the window facing Route 11 was closed, but the one looking east - toward Ray's - was still there. I had heard stories of "performances" happening for the DJs below that window. :D

Mike
 
mikemoran1 said:
the Fairchild custom boards had lived out their useful lives. Some of the internal functions had stopped working and the opto-faders were snagging and hard to move.
Mike
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The Fairchild was bult by Paul Kelly, one of the great engineers of that time. I heard that he was electrocuted several years back, but have never been able to confirm that. Does anyone know what the story is on him?
 
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