[BC] End of an Era...

[Harold Hallikainen]

>
>
> I wonder how many radio stations have police scanners these days.   I
> wonder
> how many stations still have a scanner, with a mute relay, in the control
> room.  The first two stations I worked for frequently covered major wrecks
> and fires with a live special report.  We would hear it on the scanner and
> someone, usually the station's GM, would rush out and do a special report
> over the Marti.  I was even on the air when the boss did a live report
> from
> a helicopter crash site.  One of the pioneers of radio in this area used
> to
> say on the air, "tune in for the expected; stay tuned for the unexpected".
>

In the 1950s, as a kid, I used to listen to the LA Police just a little
above the AM broadcast band. They boomed into the San Francisco east bay.
Then, at my first commercial station in the early 1970s, I added a squelch
relay to a scanner to start a tape recorder whenever anything came on the
scanner. The news guy ("Peterson .... .... .... and the news") would
listen to the tape the next morning to find out what happened overnight.

Harold


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