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[NigelWick]

Why were so many radio station buildings so awful? I remember WCDL in an old house on top of a mountain. WSCR on North Keyser Avenue in Scranton had mice. WILK on North Franklin Street in Wilkes-Barre, in the 80's, was a trip back into the 40's. I've only seen WNAK in Nanticoke from the outside. Yonkstur has told stories about WYZZ. I don't know how the radio people in the Scranton Times buildings worked without windows. I would have been claustrophobic. So many bad facilities... howcum?

 

[crmc]

Maybe because the owners or managers with such lack of vision thought that since you can't see them anyway it didn't matter. WCDL wasn't so bad,though. It was clean, though spartan. No conference room.
If my memory serves me, the master bedroom was the GM office, bedroom 2 was the GSM/PD office and bedroom 3 was the sales office.The living room was Studio A ( the AM/ or Master Control), the dining room was Studio B( the FM..and News Room), the kitchen was the traffic/billing office and a small sitting room looking out the front, sort of a parlor, most likely in the design was the production room. Interestingly, the production equiptment doubled as remote gear, so if they sold a polka remote or had a game, no production could get done because the equiptment was removed.The transmitter room was added on behind the master studio, literally built around the 5 KW xtmr that was the size of a boxcar( or has time rewritten every line...it was about 30 years ago).
Getting up that hill in the Winter was something scary. I remember being driven up to the station by the Carbondale Police late one day, with my car left in a ditch on Salem road awaiting a tow, making it in time to cover my airshift.