[BC] Talking about automation taking you off the air

[Mike McCarthy]

Most smart PD's and engineers had a couple GO-TO/SLAM-IN carts which were 
more than a few minutes long to buy some time in an extreme situation. At 
one station, I had the PD make several 10 minute carts with two or three 
songs on them so that the talent knew they could either play one or both. 
But they had at least nine minutes of music and decent outro's which 
allowed talent to get out of them easily when they were ready.

In another case, we left a 30 minute pre-formatted reel loaded on the 
studio machine all the time (except when long form shows were being played) 
so that emergency programming was always ready to go. By snugging the reel 
and push of a button, you had 30 minutes of approved music non-stop. There 
were three, each of which was rotated after being played. At this station, 
it took about 20 minutes to reset the automation.

MM

At 10:45 AM 2/19/2006 -0500, Dan Kelley wrote
>In my free-form AOR days, we'd use lots of the long cuts mentioned...
>or just let cuts on Moody Blues albums segue since they usually
>transitioned from one track to the next without any dead air.
>
>Then - slightly changing the topic - one station I worked at that
>was all-vinyl in the early 70s had a song on cart sitting ontop of
>the stack of 3 Gates Criterion machines.  The cart had a typewritten
>file-folder type label on it that said "I Don't Have A Record Cued Up"
>
>-dan in lansing
>
>
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>Long version of American Pie, Stairway to Heaven, the long version of
>Diadado's 2001, A Space Odyssey theme (1972), Year of the Cat, Boston's
>Launch/Long Time.
>
>For the really intestinally challenged, Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant.
>
>Pretty much any popular song over 6 minutes...  And even then, with carts
>being as stubborn as they can be, the longer carts would bind up. Or the
>record would skip. So you still needed to be back in the studio as fast as
>possible just in case that happened.
>
>MM
>
>At 07:53 AM 2/19/2006 -0600, Stanley Adams wrote
> >what in the world ever happened to the box of 'going to the bathroom'
> >records?  While we are on the subject of passwords and the such, we need to
> >get all the old guys on the list here to come up with the all time
> >definitive 'going to the bathroom' record list.
> >
> >McArthur Park was a pretty good one.
> >
> >Man, am I too old or what?
> >
> >Stanley Adams
> >Memphis
> >
> >
> >
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