Truthfully, I don't remember joining this group. I went to register to today, and they told me my user name was already in use! I clicked Login, my browser plugged in my credentials, and here I am.
My broadcast career wasn't nearly as varied and colorful as most. After separation from the Air Force, I repaired Code-a-Phones for six months, then got my first and only broadcast job: WSM-AM, the 50,000 watt Air Castle of the South. Three years at the transmitter, 4.5 years at our cable outlet, The Nashville Network, then 12.5 years as a studio engineer at WSM-AM, WSM-FM, and WWTN-FM, including a few gigs at the Ryman Auditorium, the Grand Ol' Opry, and the Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree.
I had met Patsy Cline backstage at the Ryman when I was a kid, just weeks before she died. During my 20-year stint in broadcast, I met and worked with more than half the stars in country music.
In the early '90s, management decided to put computers in every studio and production room; we didn't have a high opinion of the corporate IT department at the time, so Engineering got assigned responsibility for all things computer. I didn't know anything about PCs, but I bought a few books and started training myself. The first year, I got a poor evaluation because I wasn't learning fast enough; the next year, it was bad because I was spending so much time fussing with computers, networks, and batch files, the broadcast equipment wasn't getting the attention it needed.
We installed the CD-changer based Pristine Systems playback suite... I'll join that discussion soon.
That was it. I left after 20 years, moved to Florida thinking I would work till I was 70, and ended up fixing computers for another 20 years.
My broadcast career wasn't nearly as varied and colorful as most. After separation from the Air Force, I repaired Code-a-Phones for six months, then got my first and only broadcast job: WSM-AM, the 50,000 watt Air Castle of the South. Three years at the transmitter, 4.5 years at our cable outlet, The Nashville Network, then 12.5 years as a studio engineer at WSM-AM, WSM-FM, and WWTN-FM, including a few gigs at the Ryman Auditorium, the Grand Ol' Opry, and the Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree.
I had met Patsy Cline backstage at the Ryman when I was a kid, just weeks before she died. During my 20-year stint in broadcast, I met and worked with more than half the stars in country music.
In the early '90s, management decided to put computers in every studio and production room; we didn't have a high opinion of the corporate IT department at the time, so Engineering got assigned responsibility for all things computer. I didn't know anything about PCs, but I bought a few books and started training myself. The first year, I got a poor evaluation because I wasn't learning fast enough; the next year, it was bad because I was spending so much time fussing with computers, networks, and batch files, the broadcast equipment wasn't getting the attention it needed.
We installed the CD-changer based Pristine Systems playback suite... I'll join that discussion soon.
That was it. I left after 20 years, moved to Florida thinking I would work till I was 70, and ended up fixing computers for another 20 years.
