WCVO question

[Nu_Roo_2]

Del: You exposed your age when you referred to 'TVN as "the friendly giant"! ;D

Yikes! That doesn't seem that long ago! When was it? Wait, no, don't tell me!!

 

[del_griffith]

Del: You exposed your age when you referred to 'TVN as "the friendly giant"! ;D

Let's put it this way. I'm getting on the long in the tooth side of a desireable demographic.

I really started to listen to radio and primarily TVN in the late 60's. I was in the 7th or 8th grade. Fraim did mornings, Logan middays, Conners afternoons, Dave Parr early evening, Pat Lucus late night to early overnight and Jack Steward in the wee hours. I don't remember weekends except for Gene Warman. TVN was the only local AM station that got to my neck of the woods in the night.

At that impressionable age and their very adept use of the "Friends" positioning jingles and statements, it etched a lasting memory.

We did listen to WCOL during sunlit hours. All the jocks that have been listed over the years in various web sites were the guys we listened to. I go back to the days of Roy Harvey doing the news with the dateline beeps between the stories and probably a teletype in the background. How I miss fixing one of those machines when the keys got stuck or the ribbon jammed. Nothing like inked fingers to leave your prints over everything you touch.

 

[Nu_Roo_2]

Nothing like inked fingers to leave your prints over everything you touch.

My Brother Inkjet has that same functionality today. So nothing's really changed, except that we say "functionality" instead of "that thing that it does."

 

[NotMe]

Maybe we should start a "Geezer's Forum" where us old-timers can get together, trade war stories, and show our battle scars. In order to log on, you must know what a "que burn" is and have a scar on at least one finger from editing tape with a razor blade. --- sorry... didn't mean to hijack the thread.

 

[del_griffith]

Maybe we should start a "Geezer's Forum" where us old-timers can get together, trade war stories, and show our battle scars. In order to log on, you must know what a "que burn" is and have a scar on at least one finger from editing tape with a razor blade. --- sorry... didn't mean to hijack the thread.

And how to take meter readings every half hour, what directional means, when and how to raise/reduce power and how to go from non-directional to directional without the computer automatically doing it, and how to duct tape the plate button on the transmitter so it won't go off the air.

 

[david9396]

Don't forget that the FCC used to mandate/require passage of the Class 3 RadioTelephone Operators license to even BE on the air, volunteer or paid. I had the opprtunity to learn radio from one of the best, AL Knuth, at THe Christian Voice of Central Ohio, WCVO 104.9FM, Gahanna. DOn't forget the toh LEGAL ID. lol.
david9396 formerly known as david5258 and former weekend on-air host at WCVO.

 

[Jake Sommers]

While were at it....

Don't forget changing the paper in the AP printer. The boxes of paper weighed 200 lbs. it seemed.

For the cue burns you could always put some water or alcohol on the record...Either that or just pot it up past the burn spot.

I failed my "element 9"test. I am a loser.

Jake

 

[del_griffith]

Third time was a charm on element 9 for me.

You always knew which records would cue burn first. A&M records, IMHO were the worst. It was bad enough to have to listen to the Captain and Tennille. With cue burn, it was double jeopardy. And the lable used by Gladys Knight and the PIPS was a close second.

We used to play Earl Nightingale. The program was played off an LP. We played amost exclusively 45s when playing music.

Nightingale had a live intro of "It's time now for Our Changing World with Earl Nightingale. And now Mr. Nightingale." At that point you would start the turntable and Nightingale openned by saying "Thank you" to the introduction in his rich baritone. Except when you forgot to change the speed on the turntables from 45 to 33 and he sounded like one of David Seville's chipmunks.

 

[SportsRadioDoc]

Wow, you guys are making me feel old. I had a nightmare last night about all my edits taped to the reel to reel machine. I left my studio to get some coffee and when I came back 20 edits were on the cutting room floor. I woke up in a cold sweat screaming NOT ME! DAMN YOU!

 

[david9396]

remember how th ap machine would jam up shut at 259am, just prior to having to do a rip/read live 3am news on sunday morning??? ap would NOT answer the phone to give updates you could use at 4am--all duly logged for the fcc. then have to run reed ervine and "accuracy in media" during a 30 minute praise music sto[p set between 430 and 5.... them were the days....lol.
david9396 formerly david5258, onair weekend overnights 1990-91, wcvo 104.9 gahanna.

 

[NotMe]

Wow, you guys are making me feel old. I had a nightmare last night about all my edits taped to the reel to reel machine. I left my studio to get some coffee and when I came back 20 edits were on the cutting room floor. I woke up in a cold sweat screaming NOT ME! DAMN YOU!

Sorry! My nightmare is sitting on the john at 3 AM listening to the cart machine eating "Take it to the Limit" on the monitor, then having to run down the hallway with my pants around my ankles praying that no one else had come into the building. :