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shows done off-site?

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clericus

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Three questions about "off-site" shows. I'm listening to a podcast of the Dennis Miller show and he's apparently doing his show from a studio in his Santa Barbara home. Is this done via ISDN?

He said a couple of days ago that Larry King used to do his overnight show from a houseboat in Miami. Is this true?

How prevalent is this practice of doing shows away from studios?
 
Interesting. It seems to be quite common, imho.
Ted Leitner used to do his morning reports from his house this way, and you'd never know it (but for when he mentioned it).
Stacy Taylor did his show from Alpine when he was on WTKK Boston; Jay Severin has been doing his show on that station from New York.
The late David Brudnoy did his show on WBZ Boston from home, as he was battling illness for many years.
Rush Limbaugh does his show from Florida very often.
And, years ago, the West Texas AM station I was working at had 1/2 of their morning show working form his Carlsbad MN home.

Anyway, those are the ones I know of, I'm sure there are more.
That's my 2Cents worth on this.
 
Often. Bob Hudson was the king of this, and I hope he chimes in.

Anywhere an ISDN line can be set up (and it is really easy now), a "studio" is born. In fact, the "Radio World" has an advertisement for a device that was used on the new super-de-dooper EU plane while in flight.

Part of Bill Handel's morning crew is remote sometimes. Kevin and Bean in la LA. Morgan on KSON was in North Carolina until a couple of months ago.

Best example would be from the Kingdom of Nye. Art Bell did (and still does on occasion) his show for "Coast To Coast AM".
 
Did Larry King really do his show from a houseboat? How was that possible before ISDN? (assuming ISDN wasn't possible in 1980)
 
clericus said:
Did Larry King really do his show from a houseboat? How was that possible before ISDN? (assuming ISDN wasn't possible in 1980)
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5 KC phone lines (or 7 KC if you were an FM station). Heck, Dr. Don Rose did his morning show on KFRC for years in the 80's from a hospital bed in his home.

- Doc
 
Media Hack Chris | SDR said:
Often. Bob Hudson was the king of this, and I hope he chimes in.
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I spent my last year and a half on The Planet 103.7 morning show working from home in Oceanside. We didn't use an ISDN system - instead the station paid for a much more expensive dedicated line from my house to the studios in Kearny Mesa. I have not idea what it cost them, but it was probably more than they paid me. That was a one-way line to the studios so in order to have a feed from the studio (so I could communicate two-way with the studio) we used The Planet's subcarrier (SCA): we put up a beam antenna in the attic/crawlspace of my house in the north end of Oceanside because otherwise the Planet's signal was too weak. We connected that to an SCA receiver and the studio mike cue channel was fed into the subcarrier. This was actually a better intercom system than the one we had when I worked in the studios separated from the jocks by just a glass window instead of 45 miles of freeway. Unlike an ISDN system the audio feed from my house to the studio was not digitzied or compressed and there was none of the delay of ISDN (don't know what's it's like now but there used to be delays from the compression/decompression process).

I had a nice Sennheiser mike that fed into an audio processor which in turn fed the dedicated phone line. I set up my home studio in a spare bedroom. I rigged up a switch system so that when I went live it muted the "intercom speaker" and fed that into one channel of my earphones (the other carried the on-air signal) and switched the phone ringer from bell to light.

This was when broadband internet service was fairly new, and I had Time Warner cable internet service at home and through the Internet I got much better news and traffic information than I did at the station using the dedicated Metro/Shadow computer system. I bought a fax machine so Metro could send me logs and ad copy for those little 10 second commercials that appear in every Metro news or traffic report.

Needless to say I loved this system: I used to get up at about 3:30 AM to drive 45 miles to be on the air at 5:05 and then coming home I would hope there were no accidents blocking the 5/805 merge. Working from home I got up at 10 till 5 and 60 seconds after I did my last traffic report at 8:45 or so I was done for the day.
 
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