store front studio:

[TheBigA]

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.

I've worked in both, and the mall is at least cleaner. The downtown location was bad at night. The mall is empty at night, but so is an office. Downtown was just bad. The mall location was great because on weekends your remote could be done using 100 foot cables.

 

[Yeziknoradio]

Maybe a radio station in a Mall?

I think that idea works well in Edmonton at the West Edmonton mall, where there are a few radio stations there.

 

[umtrr-author]

I seem to dimly recall a storefront setup in downtown Corning some years ago... can anyone recall this, or is this a "faulty memory"?

I distinctly recall a station broadcasting from a storefront, on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. It would have to have been after gambling started down there in 1978, and most likely in the early 1980s since I still would have been in my "moth to a flame" attraction to radio. I don't recall the call letters or whether this was just for the tourist season. There was a speaker mounted to allow passers-by to hear the broadcast.

 

[TheBigA]

I distinctly recall a station broadcasting from a storefront, on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City.

Correct. It may have been on the Steel Pier? Or one of the piers. Must have been very cool at one time.

 

[Savage]

It was WFPG ("the Steel Pier Studios.") And WMID's odd-looking stubby tower at Ohio and Murray Avenues was once upon a time ill-fated WFPG-TV. When the station went dark enough of the top of the tower was removed to make it resonant at 1340 and it was repurposed for WMID.

 

[MichaelWilliams]

I seem to dimly recall a storefront setup in downtown Corning some years ago... can anyone recall this, or is this a "faulty memory"?

There is a radio group that currently has studios and offices on Market Street in Downtown Corning now.

 

[Radio_bored-Op]

i have always loved the mall studio / either it being a temp ( marathon broadcast)/temp.home or the location on the station - for the few that know, always been a dream to have a station (here,in buffalo) live - in the walden galleria : )
- i recall the jocur radio group (rochester),ny was in a major mall there - or at least had
an office/or some working agreement w/ the mall

 

[umtrr-author]

Do you mean Midtown Plaza (RIP)?

I'll leave those here with much more knowledge than I to fill in the complete list and chronology, but I do know that there was access to WHAM and WVOR through the mall because I personally visited there to pick up a prize once. I don't think that they had any studios visible from there.

Across the mall from there was a sign pointing to where WBEE and WBBF were located, but weren't they actually in the B. Forman Building and not in the mall? Those who actually know what they're talking about, please chime in...

 

[Bill Myers]

WBEE 92.5 and WKLX (after Monroe Square Building on Monroe Ave.) then 'KLX switched to WBBF were in the B. Foreman Building in the Midtown Mall - accessible by the elevator located near the entrance to the B. Foreman store. (You're right - RIP). WVOR and WHAM were located over by the US Post Office via an elevator. I believe WPXY FM/AM were there as well.

So yes, these stations were in the mall but not in a place where any mall walkers could get a look-see at the studios unless accessed by the elevators only to be greeted by a friendly receptionist.

I remember Mike O'Brien (you're get-away guy) did a remote in the window of McCurdy's facing Rochester Community Savings Bank when
he worked at WVOR. That's going back about 15-16 years ago.

I remember in the Boulevard Mall back in the mid '70's when GR55 used to bring their supervan right into the mall and broadcast.

I remember doing a remote in that van out in Derby for some kite festival and they parked it on an angle. I kept sliding to the driver's side of the van - so I wasn't centered with the board and mic.

Storefront radio stations visible off the street - wasn't that when DJ's actually dressed up suit and tie for the job?

 

[SirRoxalot]

Remember the brief flirtation with webcams in the studio? Don't see that much anymore. Somebody must have figured out that most of these guys look better on the radio than they do on TV.

 

[Element9]

Remember the brief flirtation with webcams in the studio? Don't see that much anymore. Somebody must have figured out that most of these guys look better on the radio than they do on TV.

It's not what they looked like (although that didn't help) it's what they did. Nothing. Watchin' the hot rockin' dee-uh-jay work a touch-screen? Hell, if you get off on that, you're better off going to watch the counter guys and ladies at Mickey Dee's.

 

[TheBigA]

Let's face it: What does the DJ do while the music is playing?

Webcams are useful for talk shows or when the DJ has a guest.