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WEEP AS A TALKER

There was a side entrance from the Blvd. of the Allies. When you entered you walked down a ramp to the studios. They were a mess with alot of old tube gear, some of it WE. We enstalled Collins consoles at the new site and they were a royal pain. They had optical controls which would not allow a rapid fade. There was always a delay.
 
By the way, in the latest "Radio World" there is a photo of the WJJD RCA 50F transmitter which ended up at WEEP. The CE of WJET and I drove to Chicago and physically removed the xmtr. and shipped it to Pittsburgh. It is still in place at the WWNL site in Gibsonia, although it is no longer connected to the power line.
 
Hypwr- That sounds to me like a dance studio they had out there in what would have been the lobby of the hotel.

So WEEP had a studio in the basement and another in the lobby at one time or another?

You'd have thought Point Park would have saved it for WPPJ, the student station.

But, then again, we are talking about Point Park. The place almost went out of business a few times.
 
You could also enter the offices via the lobby and walk toward the back and hit the ramp to the studios that way as well.
 
filenz said:
When they moved into the Sherwyn Hotel, they were at street level with WEEP in big letters. The one problem with that location was that when a streetcar would pass by, it would cause some records they were playing to skip. so the engineer had puchased Sure Dynetic tone arms (they were thin with a button that would lift up the cartridge head) very low mass but it worked.
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To this day, I remember hearing "Agent Double-O Soul" by Edwin Starr skipping on KQV. I'd imagine
that memory is at least 40 years old, probably closer to 50.

C.
 
Don't know about any of this . WEEP for me will always be the second preset after KQV and Perry Marshall, Tony Graham, and Jack Armstrong playing the hits for us noodniks roaming Forbes and Murray and Walnut St.
 
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