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Your bold comment above IS WHY the telecommunicatioins act of 1996 came to be. This is why stations were failing,not making money, and going under. I was for consolidation, due to it cleaned up bad managemnet, got rid of stuipd PD's and the partying, tearing up equipment, sloppy jocks!
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Scott/Pat,
I hate to bring it up....but in all my years...right on up through my almost retirement 5 years ago, there were p-ds I didn't agree with, but that didn't make me or them stupid. The bad ones managed to end up elsewhere.
We managed to party, many times at management expense. We were not sloopy and didn't tear up the equipment. Equipment was the tools we used to make our living.
We were professionals...and proud of it. You have to be there to understand.
Just before I left Houston, we had the first of the million dollar months. Now since consolidation, the stations are owned by a big company and aren't even in the race anymore. Did I mention the station was a consistent # 1? Then they were bought and consolidated and are just another small player in the big ciy.
That's why these sites are fun. We can expound on what we'd like to do if we could. Some day we can talk about news and I'll pass along what I'd do. Then you young fellows could tell me why it's so "old school" and just wouldn't work. Like I'd care
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Scott/Pat,
I hate to bring it up....but in all my years...right on up through my almost retirement 5 years ago, there were p-ds I didn't agree with, but that didn't make me or them stupid. The bad ones managed to end up elsewhere.
We managed to party, many times at management expense. We were not sloopy and didn't tear up the equipment. Equipment was the tools we used to make our living.
We were professionals...and proud of it. You have to be there to understand.
Just before I left Houston, we had the first of the million dollar months. Now since consolidation, the stations are owned by a big company and aren't even in the race anymore. Did I mention the station was a consistent # 1? Then they were bought and consolidated and are just another small player in the big ciy.
That's why these sites are fun. We can expound on what we'd like to do if we could. Some day we can talk about news and I'll pass along what I'd do. Then you young fellows could tell me why it's so "old school" and just wouldn't work. Like I'd care
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scottwmro
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Buddy,
I don't want to make you sound OLD here, due to your really only maybe 15 years older than me, but you come from the days where radio station partying was more responsible. I didn't.
I would come in and some damn jock had taken one of the rotary pots on, slamed it in to cue, causing the pot to not to work correctly. You would go in to to your shift and the audio from that pot, still on the air and the pot would just go around and around, and would not lock into cue. I can't count how many times that happen at 92Q with that old Rock 10 board we had on air when we were in the WVOL building.
Seemed like I always had my hands inside of that thing, and trying to keep programming on the air at the same time. I guess that's why I'm "PRO DELL PC AUTOMATED", and I only have ONE JOCK at WMRO. Wanye Akins, who works for me on Sunday Afternoons is also a distant family member and I know he's not going to break anything.
Window's XP won't break the faders on my console!
Scott
P.S. Buntin showed me a currnent pic of you. You've lost weight! Your looking better, so you live longer. The LA weight loss is working for you. Now my wife says I may need to get on it!
I don't want to make you sound OLD here, due to your really only maybe 15 years older than me, but you come from the days where radio station partying was more responsible. I didn't.
I would come in and some damn jock had taken one of the rotary pots on, slamed it in to cue, causing the pot to not to work correctly. You would go in to to your shift and the audio from that pot, still on the air and the pot would just go around and around, and would not lock into cue. I can't count how many times that happen at 92Q with that old Rock 10 board we had on air when we were in the WVOL building.
Seemed like I always had my hands inside of that thing, and trying to keep programming on the air at the same time. I guess that's why I'm "PRO DELL PC AUTOMATED", and I only have ONE JOCK at WMRO. Wanye Akins, who works for me on Sunday Afternoons is also a distant family member and I know he's not going to break anything.
Window's XP won't break the faders on my console!
Scott
P.S. Buntin showed me a currnent pic of you. You've lost weight! Your looking better, so you live longer. The LA weight loss is working for you. Now my wife says I may need to get on it!
scottwmro said:
I still don't understand how you equate consolidation with morons tearing up equipment: none of the stations I worked for in Nashville (starting with 92Q) had any problem with staff damaging equipment...and I've been associated with smaller companies until CC bought WSIX. we actually took some pride in our workplace.
I think you're using ONE experience to judge something you're not really familiar with. on a lighter subject...my cart-throwing skills are legendary and unmatched...ask anyone working in Nashvillle when we still used carts.
my cart-throwing skills are legendary and unmatched...ask anyone working in Nashvillle when we still used carts. oooohh..just remembered, when i had to play the montavani/big band music at 104.5 un the ridege, i would get so mad at that stuff..i would sail albums acrss the highhway on the opposite side on the road..when fall cam..you could look over and see them sticking out of the ground like little round tombstones...strangly...no one ever said a word about it...
That's funny "Deltas69", If I had to play that crap all day I would have done the same thing. I'm surprised the "wheels" did'nt notice the "tombstone" out there, and the missing record albums from the studio.
I remember when I was a kid, we use too take my brother's and sister's albums and use them for frisbies, man if they would of known that i would of never been around too buy my first one.
I remember when I was a kid, we use too take my brother's and sister's albums and use them for frisbies, man if they would of known that i would of never been around too buy my first one.
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scottwmro
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romer979fm said:
Chris,
We were at 92Q at different times. This was all happening in 1989 when Jay Dubard took over as PD. All the jocks were pissed, and yes, SLAMMING carts was a big deal. I got mad one night and slamed a cart that put a crack in one of the studio windows. Plastic and tape everwhere.
Jocks were required to do dubs or produce spots when you weren't busy. Some of those stupid idots would not put the cue tone at the end of the spot to fire the next machine, causing dead air. Seemed it always happen when I had to go to the bathroom. When we went dead during a spot set and I was in the little boys room, Dubard was on that hot line ready to chew my butt over 10 seconds of dead air.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking Jay as a person, but you were at WSIX when Jay was PD over 92Q and those were pittiful days!
I'm surprised the "wheels" did'nt notice the "tombstone" out there, and the missing record albums from the studio. in retrospect..it's surprising the property owner never said anything either..for the life of me i can't remember which albums i threw..had to be promo or stuff we would never play...the mantavani and big band stuff would have been missed...maybe jerry vale ? ???
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scottwmro
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Tibbs2 said:
This was almost pre-pc days, Dubard would have VCR's line up in his apt., recording the station while he was out of town. There was also a little cassette deck wired to the mic channel, so when you keyed the mic and the relay threw the mic channel on, it took the cassette player out of pause and it was recording air checks. Being I was a techie, I would disconnect the cassette recorder from the relay to the announcer mic of the board during my shift. They caught on to what I was doing and I got chewed over that deal. This is why Dubard had VCR's set up so he could monitor me, but gee, when something broke, and Clinton Hooper wasn't around, he was calling me, standing over my back as I tried to make repairs. Bear in mind, by the time I was working on that old junk, it had been through hell, then Chris Romer days, then to hell again. I bet Chris was like me, keep screwdriver and the good ole hot iron in hand! Had to wear two hats!
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scottwmro
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olebud said:
Buddy,
This is true, AND he has more grey hair than I have....HEE, HEE, HEE,! Where's your's? And they said I would be a grandpa by the time I was 36. :
Bear in mind, by the time I was working on that old junk, it had been through hell, then Chris Romer days, then to hell again. I bet Chris was like me, keep screwdriver and the good ole hot iron in hand! Had to wear two hats![/quote]
No...I was never an engineer: didn't have to fix stuff 'cause the AIRSTAFF didn't tear up the equipment.
what we've been trying to nicely say here is you're confusing professionals in radio with non-professionals.
You defeated the aircheck process? Why? Because you were a better programmer than the PD?
Not professional. Doing radio and going thru the motions are very different. And please please please...don't
blend the WQQK 92Q with the WBYQ 92Q. You were not involved with WBYQ.
Different eras. DIfferent philosophies. I could go on...but probably should let it go.
I think everyone understands already.
No...I was never an engineer: didn't have to fix stuff 'cause the AIRSTAFF didn't tear up the equipment.
what we've been trying to nicely say here is you're confusing professionals in radio with non-professionals.
You defeated the aircheck process? Why? Because you were a better programmer than the PD?
Not professional. Doing radio and going thru the motions are very different. And please please please...don't
blend the WQQK 92Q with the WBYQ 92Q. You were not involved with WBYQ.
Different eras. DIfferent philosophies. I could go on...but probably should let it go.
I think everyone understands already.
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