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The Late 1510 WNLC Makes Tom Taylor's "No Names, Please" Segment

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

Courtesy of Bill Shane, from Tuesday's TRI newsletter:
http://www.radio-info.com/newsletter/html/tri-01042011.html

"My first radio gig was at WNLC in New London, CT in 1972. I did weekends, I did overnights and most importantly I did Sunday mornings. Among the bevy of religious and public affairs shows, we ran 'The Polish Hour' (which was only 30 minutes long). The show was on a reel-to-reel, so one morning I cued it up and started the show. I heard audio and left the control room to clear the AP and UPI wires. Over the next 20 minutes, I did other things, including keep an eye on our automated FM beautiful music station. I went back to the AM control room and when The Polish Hour was complete, I did my newscast and started the next program. I rewound the tape and took it off its hub when I noticed it said 'tails out.' I was supposed to rewind the tape before it aired but never did, so the entire show ran backwards. Fortunately, no one ever called, including the show’s local narrator. I didn’t know what 'tails out' meant, so I asked the next guy who came into the station and he told me. The following week, it ran as it should."
 
I have a similar story. In 1971 when I was a call screener at WEEI, then a Boston news-talker on 590, a caller told me the music on WEEI-FM 103.3 was running backwards. An engineer had forgotten to rewind the tails-out, hour-long reel. The call came in at 50 minutes past the hour, so maybe no other listeners caught the mistake. WEEI-FM then was just an automated station in the corner of the AM's production room, and nobody monitored the station after tapes were cued up.
 
A similar situation in the early 70's at WHN in New York...also early on a Sunday morning but this time it was the Protestant Hour (which also was only 30 minutes too) and the engineer who racked the tape up on the deck, cued to audio (but didn’t listen to it), started it and then turned the monitor speakers down to continue his phone call. The entire 30 minutes ran backwards because at the last station the tape was played at it was not rewound.
 
Anyone notice WAVZ getting a lot of run in TRI's "No Names, Please" segment lately?Thank you, Cloris Leachman! ::)
 
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