The best rated voice in NJ...

[joekelly]

You voted him the best voice in South Jersey! Today, he celebrates a birthday! Happy Birthday to our favorite engineer, Tom McNally!

 

[myke25]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

now we have a reason to eat cake... sweet!

 

[TomNote]

You need a REASON to eat cake?

Amateur.

 

[krichardson]

Yes! KUDOS to Tom McNally who once hit an Earth Wind and Fire vocal so tight it made my head asplode!

 

[amfmsw]

I wouldn't have a job if it weren't for you Tom. Many of us wouldn't! Now, if you could only get paid what you're worth....Happy Birthday.

You're what? 34?

 

[tom]

Thanks guys ... I tried to keep my 39th birthday a secret
this year ... hah !

I'm still having fun in radio, it was 36 years on January 18th.

I think my first shift on WOND was filling in for Red Karr
so he could play a basketball game with the WOND All-Stars
against the Pleasantville Police or something.
I may still have cassettes ... painful to listen to.
Dubbah-You-Whoa-When-Dee

Then I went full time on WMGM doing mornings when it was what
was referred to as "underground rock" we had a tiny studio with
a 4 pot board made out of wood that not only picked up WOND
in the background - but the Voice Of America from Greenville, SC.
Our studio monitor was a white plastic fixed tune radio we had to
turn down when we talked to avoid feedback. They later got
a Panasonic stereo and hooked it up to go off when the mike
came on. The carpet was ratty with holes worn deeply into
it from use. Jim Earle, the Champion Surfer/Surf Shop Owner/PD
and I went out and bought $ 14 worth of carpet (remember that
we only made $ 2.00 an hour) and Howard Green was so embarrassed
that we did it on our own that I think he paid us both back double.
There was no telephone in the FM studio, but there were two
small soundproof doors, one on each side of the wall, so you
could bring in the newsroom phone after hours. BUT - if
Michael Schurman ever came in and needed the phone, he
would yank on the cord and yell at the FM guy, and make the
record skip. Crazy but true.
It was so cold in the studio in the winter, the turntables didn't
get much past 20 RPM or so, we would open the doors under
the turntables and point the heater in there to try to get them
going. (I started to come in earlier !) The one and only cart machine
was so noisy we didn't turn it on to play a spot (if we had one)
until we turned the mike off. The FM guys were so low on the
priority list, if we were in the production room and an AM guy
came in, they basically said "get outta here" Fun times !

 

[amfmsw]

What makes you think it's much different today?

I think I have that "fixed tune" Auditron. One's labeled and tuned to WFLN 95.7, the other to WFPG 96.9. Made in lovely center city Pennsauken.

 

[csp-1]

Thanks guys ... I tried to keep my 39th birthday a secret
this year ... hah !

I'm still having fun in radio, it was 36 years on January 18th.

I think my first shift on WOND was filling in for Red Karr
so he could play a basketball game with the WOND All-Stars
against the Pleasantville Police or something.
I may still have cassettes ... painful to listen to.
Dubbah-You-Whoa-When-Dee

Then I went full time on WMGM doing mornings when it was what
was referred to as "underground rock" we had a tiny studio with
a 4 pot board made out of wood that not only picked up WOND
in the background - but the Voice Of America from Greenville, SC.
Our studio monitor was a white plastic fixed tune radio we had to
turn down when we talked to avoid feedback. They later got
a Panasonic stereo and hooked it up to go off when the mike
came on. The carpet was ratty with holes worn deeply into
it from use. Jim Earle, the Champion Surfer/Surf Shop Owner/PD
and I went out and bought $ 14 worth of carpet (remember that
we only made $ 2.00 an hour) and Howard Green was so embarrassed
that we did it on our own that I think he paid us both back double.
There was no telephone in the FM studio, but there were two
small soundproof doors, one on each side of the wall, so you
could bring in the newsroom phone after hours. BUT - if
Michael Schurman ever came in and needed the phone, he
would yank on the cord and yell at the FM guy, and make the
record skip. Crazy but true.
It was so cold in the studio in the winter, the turntables didn't
get much past 20 RPM or so, we would open the doors under
the turntables and point the heater in there to try to get them
going. (I started to come in earlier !) The one and only cart machine
was so noisy we didn't turn it on to play a spot (if we had one)
until we turned the mike off. The FM guys were so low on the
priority list, if we were in the production room and an AM guy
came in, they basically said "get outta here" Fun times !

...tom .. thanks for the awesome posting !!! you kind of sort of know me , by the way ... hope the instructions on the old "eazy 101" radio frequency change worked out for ya' !!! c.s.p.

 

[tom]

What makes you think it's much different today?

I think I have that "fixed tune" Auditron. One's labeled and tuned to WFLN 95.7, the other to WFPG 96.9. Made in lovely center city Pennsauken.

These were white, two boxes, one with guts and a speaker, the other just a speaker ...
made in Pleasantville ... on Delilah Road, near that Octagonal House ... I don't remember
the name of the company. I think they sold them on the air for $ 19.95.

Thanks C.S.P. I use one of the EAZY 101 radios on 97.3 at the transmitter, it goes
loud enough to be heard about the big 35,000 watt transmitter.