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Why do many DJ's/combo hosts/board-ops...

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Eli Polonsky

...like to set their studio chairs down so low that their chin, and their mic lowered in front of them, is just barely an inch above the board, and they have to hunch their arms up to their shoulder level just to slide the faders, and gaze upward just to read their copy on the stand?

After 27 years of doing radio, I have never understood this habit, at every station I've been at. It feels to me like when you're driving a car with such low seats that you're barely able to see the road over the dashboard and the hood in front of you.

I often end up having to adjust the studio seat higher than the previous host or operator, or find a higher seat, and I'm 5' 9", not too short of a guy. What is up with so many radio people seeming to like to sit extremely low at the board?
 
What broadcasters need is a Craftmatic Adjustable Radio Chair. ;)
 
Most places I've worked were designed for the jock to stand-up. I've seen people sit like you described, and it does not allow for a good vocal delivery.
 
More often than not, I'd stand during my shift(unless I was REALLY tired) even if it was a "sit-down" situation.
 
I too have mostly done shifts standing up. With only a few exceptions, most of the jocks I've worked with have too.
 
All the music station studios I worked in had the consoles built low...until the last year at my last music station, when new studios were built with a stand-up console...I really preferred it.

Later, doing talk, all the studios were sit-down.
 
Reading all these posts on this thread reminds me of the line Burt Reynolds said to Bernadette Peters in The Longest Yard. ;D
 
a joke that used to go around one of our local stations was that "I thought that they
were all 4 foot 6, until I saw one of them standing-up in the buffet line at the annual
Christmas Party"
 
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