[BC] Finding NEMO (a remote possibility?)

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Tom, WOOD was on 1300, 5kw?

Who was the manager and owner?

Tom
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From: "Tom Bosscher" <tom at bosscher.org>
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Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Finding NEMO (a remote possibility?)


> Tom Taggart wrote:
>   >If that's the green GE stereo console, I've got a picture of that. 
> Ended  up in Toledo, and I remember rebuilding it.
>
>    If that is the unit from WOOD-FM, it would have a red pushbutton that 
> was drilled into the cabinet, very close to the last, or second to the 
> last pot on the right.
>
>    When I started to work at WOOD, the morning show with Bruce Grant was 
> simocasted. Yes, the FM was the Schulke monster, and Mr. S was always 
> screaming about having that morning drive show on HIS fm, but way too much 
> money was to be made. Anyway, the AM had 18 minutes of cash register 
> rocking commercials an hour. Schulke only allowed 8 on his stations. So 
> the engineer sat in the FM control room, and four times an hour, broke 
> from the AM, with a wave of the hand from Bruce Grant. Funny thing, the 
> other ten spots on the AM made it to the FM all morning long, but WOOD-FM 
> would tell Schulke that they were only "running" the 8 spots. The other 
> units were "given" to the favored clients. The national AM buys were 
> always covered on the FM.
>
>    As I was saying, the FM would break away. Even as a lad of 18, I was 
> stunned that the engineers would pull the spots from the ATC-55's, and run 
> them manully on the two cart machines in FM control. We had a whole 
> automation system that could handle the break away. I explained to Jerry 
> VanderSloot how we could use the automation, and that thought was so far 
> outside of  "we've always done it this way", that I was not allowed to do 
> it.
>    At a ham fest, I found one of those nurse call pendant type switches. I 
> ran a cable to the automation start, buried that pendant switch where I 
> knew the other engineers would never look, and wired the automation out to 
> an unmarked and "unused" input to that GE. So now when I ran that morning 
> show, I would use the  Gates "dial direct and save" automation. Well, at 8 
> am there was a separate newscast for the FM, and those folks noticed that 
> I never had any carts out, and I would just lean back, press my little 
> pendant switch and flick off the AM studio feed.
>    I got hauled in to Jerry's office for that. "That's not how we do 
> things here!"  However, he let me keep the pendant switch. Within a few 
> weeks, the other engineers came out of the cave, and they started using 
> it. Turns out that now we could let the automation handle the 8am 
> news/spot load automatically while we had to do the 8am AM station pattern 
> change, which used to require the PD to be there to help with the 
> logistics. After six months Jerry asked me to put the switch right in the 
> console.
>    Just like I had suggested.
>    And now you know, the rest of the story.
>
>    If you can scan the picture of the console, I would appreciate a copy.
>
>    tom at bosscher.org
>
>   tom bosscher
>
>
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