[BC] Weirdo dials /was/ ABC Network in the wired days

[Alan Kline]

Wow...

As a faithful listener of Wally's for many years, starting in junior high
(I was the weird kid who didn't listen to WLS...) that just seems to
unreal to believe that those bits came off disks.  It's hard enough to
envision a board engineer loading carts in a flash to play those bits.
Those guys on the board earned their bucks--I can't remember any kind of
error in playing those bits, or anything else for that matter...Bob
Collins had enough fluffs reading live copy to make up for it!  (RIP,
Uncle Bobby...)

Wonder if any of those ET's are still kicking around somewhere inside
Tribune Tower?

And I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that, AFAIK, WGN was
among the last stations to employ record-turners under an AFM contract?
Or would ET's have been played by the engineer?



ak

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Scott Fybush wrote:

> At 10:49 PM 7/13/2005 +0000, you wrote:
> >i have news for you Al, up into the 1980s WGN was cutting transcription
> >disks because Wally Phillips's show used them (that was how they inserted
> >the little voiced sound bites he would ad lib with which were his
> >trademark, in a day before PCs with MP3 files on hard disks).  He brought
> >in so much revenue they didn't mind spending the money on it, which was a lot.
> >
> >Rob Atkinson
>
> The cutting lathes are still stored - in very nice condition - in the
> basement of the transmitter site. See 'em about halfway down the page here:
>
> http://www.fybush.com/sites/2004/site-040101.html
>
> s
>
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