Turntables/carts @ Y-100, I95, 96X

[TinElLay]

The EQ you refer at Y-100 was not in the program line but was used for the speaker-phone. Only the left channel was used for the caller audio. The Y-100 Hollywood studios were designed in 1974 by Y-100's first great engineer John Bailie, who had worked with Eric Small at WOR-FM/New York. He was the best.

 

[RadioGuy2004]

Funny nobody mentions the cool synthesizer in the production room! Plenty of airchecks feature that bad boy in spots.

 

[observer8057]

Miami, being my home town, and not to take away any of the glory of Miami Radio, and since I'm always bragging and tooting my own horn, bare with me here, the coolest radio station I've ever worked for, after leaving WMYQ, was KIQQ Q-100FM Los Angles on the ninth floor of the Capital Record building, no expense spared and as plush as plush could possibly be by 1976 standards, nice view from the control room, although Zeta-4 Miami always was pretty high, so-to-speak, with a nice view, or what you could make out of it, at that time, and with that, I've pretty much said my piece and I'll go take a pill........

I think time is playing with your memory. (We all experience it!!) KIQQ was at 6430 Sunset Boulevard, corner of Cahuenga, in Hollywood. (It's now the CNN Los Angeles bureau.) The Capitol Records tower was, and is, up north a bit to the east at 1750 Vine Street on the same block as the Pantages Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.

Also, CBS all-newser KFWB shared that same block with the Capitol building for many years. The Capitol echo chambers run underground east of the building and there were fears that the demise of KFWB at Yucca and Argyle could cause problems, but apparently that has been solved. The KFWB Hollywood building has been demolished (all-digital, tapeless KFWB is now at the CBS Radio Broadcast Center on Wilshire Boulevard) to make way for condos.

Rumors abound that the Capitol building could become condos, as well.

 

[wrekfan]

When I got to ZETA4 in 1979 the "music" chains that were the source of the music had a series of processors including a graphic equalizer and a limiter, yet the station's audio was in the mud and distorted. All in an attempt to create on-air loudness. The station's actual loudness was poor as was the occupied bandwidth. The station, during the days of analogue tuners, was easily missed when running the dial. We removed every piece of "processing" at that point, balanced everything, got rid of the "magic" toggle switch on the front of the Optimod and started adding improvements, but was limited by occasionall needing some sleep. Following a long nap everything was upgraded including Newman mics and substantially improved cart machines...but best of all we got rid of the WINZ RF leak that was audible in those Sparta consoles (and on all 940News recorded actualities). Finally we upgraded ZETA by building new corner room studios with Ward-Becks. Got WGBS AM out of the STL link (which hopped from their studios at 710 Brickell through One Biscayne to the transmitter in West Dade; and also removed other interference from Tampa) Upgraded with new Optimods, doubled the STL microwave dish gain and increased the height of the STL tower from the studio, and finally we got ZETA to be a South Florida station. So we switch to I-95, just in time to see the building next to One Biscayne exceed the WLUV (93.9), WINZ-FM (94.9) and WYOR (105.1) tower. So we built the mega facility known as Gannett Tower
Rick Edwards