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store front studio:

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like CFNY - (220 yonge st ) studio,
say if a Buffalo station ( pick 1) _wbuf, star, whtt -the lake....
(what ev : ) wanted to "boost" ratings or the popular image and
wanted to build a store front studio - where would they go ??
(not the 5-week xmas, on location in the mall /or the sports bar
studio during the sabres playoff run), but a full fledge station,
that has a store front feel to it - where they gonna go ???
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im thinking chippewa....any where else?
maybe elmwood -
delaware could be nice - but not many pedistrans...
now that i type - could think of - hertel, or main st (williamsville)...

okay now that i answered my own topic (lol) - - seriously any where else ??
 
I don't see the point anymore in Buffalo. What's the public going to see? The computer system on automation 12-16 hours a day?
 
Back in the 1960s, Don Burden's WIFE radio had a store-front studio in Indianapolis that had to be the poster-child example for radio. It was a brilliant idea for it's time.

Even if you are NOT automated I am having a hard time visualizing the street-side studio with a big, big window as viable today.

First, there is the security issue. In this drug-deal-gone-bad gun-happy society, I'm not sure you can pay me enough to sit there waiting to hear the shattering glass.

Today's miniaturized sleek broadcast studio equipment does not have that sexy, alluring appeal to the public.

Women with sex appeal always teasingly display the merchandise. To go stark naked is too drastic, leaves nothing to wonder about. Has no future unseen promise. I'm not sure stark-naked radio has much sex appeal.
 
That's something WSPQ should do in Springville or WECK should do in Cheektowaga if both could be located in the "central business district" of their respective communities.
 
Not to mention that most jocks have a great face for radio - and a wardrobe to match.
 
Debaser said:
SirRoxalot said:
I don't see the point anymore in Buffalo. What's the public going to see? The computer system on automation 12-16 hours a day?
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*like*
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...life size cardboard cutouts of Ryan Seacrest and other voice trackers standing at the board.
 
Well, there's only one solution: storefront studios featuring a Gates Dualux, twin CB-100 transcription turntables, a rack of ATC cart machines and cart walls, a couple of Ampex 400s in roll-around consoles, and a General Radio mod monitor with a big ol' peak flasher winking away.

Of course, any one of US would be suitably photogenic. ;)
 
Gates Sta-Level and hi-tech Volumax-Audimax combo in 19 inch rack. Air talent with navy blue or maroon station blazer, gold call letter lapel pin. At least one cigarette in ashtray. Latest Billboard on desktop. Annnnnd, gray Fidelipac with rattling metal tension bar and gummy white label, upside down in cart deck #5.
 
JimPastrick said:
Gates Sta-Level and hi-tech Volumax-Audimax combo in 19 inch rack. Air talent with navy blue or maroon station blazer, gold call letter lapel pin...
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You know, if you ran an oldies format, why not? That might be fun! Even if the antique processing equipment was just fed a signal to make the meters bounce and the lights flash, and a microprocessor set up to make the lights on the cart machines track outcues from the computer, you could re-create some of the feel.

If you actually used the turntables once in a while, teens would stand an watch in awe.

The only thing spoiling the authenticity would be the 60-year old DJ. You might have to train some 20-year-olds in tech history to make it look right...
 
The jock should slipcue a 45. Or for even more effect....a 78......there should be an outside cue speaker so the audience could hear what we're doing.
 
SirRoxalot said:
I don't see the point anymore in Buffalo. What's the public going to see? The computer system on automation 12-16 hours a day?
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Oh come on. Most of the stations in Buffalo have live people in them during waking hours.

The people would see that their favorite radio people are mostly over 45, slightly overweight, and grey. Very attractive.

One station I worked at was actually in a shopping mall...and the employees did everything they could to hide from the public. They said it was demeaning and made them feel like they were animals in a zoo. One of the DJs put a little sign in the window that said "Please don't feed the DJs." I'm not kidding.
 
For professional radio stations, the "fishbowl studio" approach has some definite downsides these days. But it's something I recommend all college stations attempt to do if possible...preferably somewhere in a high-traffic area (i.e. the student center or cafeteria). The security risks are lower, and it works wonders to get young folks...many of whom have little to zero connection to radio to begin with...to have a real connection to the station when they see their friends in there.
 
aaronread said:
For professional radio stations, the "fishbowl studio" approach has some definite downsides these days. But it's something I recommend all college stations attempt to do if possible...preferably somewhere in a high-traffic area (i.e. the student center or cafeteria). The security risks are lower, and it works wonders to get young folks...many of whom have little to zero connection to radio to begin with...to have a real connection to the station when they see their friends in there.
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No disputing this, it's a great idea, but even college radio stations today seem to be automated. Took a road trip with a colleague to Rochester last Saturday to sup at Dinosaur (cheap plug, no promotional fee paid) with a few friends from the Utica stop on the pro tour. Along the way my colleague and I solved all the merger problems and checked out some signals.

I always enjoy listening to college stations when I'm cruising down I-90. I like to hear what's being taught and how it's being applied on the air. Too many stations appeared to be running on "Auto" just like their commercial counterparts. Semester break? Tough to get shifts filled on the weekend? Short staffed? Maybe it's the way these college stations are programmed. Back in the day, you prayed the next jock would stiff so you could do four more hours on the air.

It was surprising to hear college stations using bumpers and sweepers to such a great extent. If you're teaching the next generation of broadcasters the art of communication on radio (and TV), please let the young jocks talk. Sure, give them guidelines and formatic structure they need, but let them learn (make mistakes) and practice their craft. How else are they going to learn how to swim in the deep end?

If I was paying for my son or daughter's degree in Communication (I did and they didn't), you'd bet I'd want them to know how to speak with clarity, confidence and conviction after four years of college radio. Just the way I hear it from this side of the speakers.
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BTW, also stopped by WASB (WADD). Many years since I last drove down that driveway. Very sad. Like being at a grave.
 
TheBigA said:
Oh come on. Most of the stations in Buffalo have live people in them during waking hours.
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There's not a single group where most of the stations have live people in them during waking hours. AM & PM drive are the most populated. Mid-days? Less than 50-50. After 7PM? Ghost town.

Maybe if we actually did have 3 50KW AMs...
 
SirRoxalot said:
AM & PM drive are the most populated. Mid-days? Less than 50-50. After 7PM? Ghost town.
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How much sidewalk traffic is there in Buffalo after 7PM? Maybe I should have said "business hours."

I worked at a storefront station in the middle of a major market, and the place was a ghost town after 6PM. Except for the homeless.
 
I was going to use quotes here....chose not to.

Pastrick hits another home run (damn this guy, must be a professional!! :D)

Security, that's here.

Does anyone care...that's here.

This THREAD is quite informative, for those who don't see the light through the darkness.

Do I have the answers...nope...don't claim to...but there are some awesome minds on this board...and THAT would be a kick ass station....comments?

HDBG
 
Maybe a radio station in a Mall? I wouldn't want to be in a storefront looking outside. I worked at a station that had studios on the second floor of an office building, you really couldn't see much from outside.

Doesn't WBTA have a storefront studio? I believe they do.

To Mr Savage, I say this: I've seen your picture and you are much more photogenic than I am, no contest!
 
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