[BC] Sta-Level

[Bailey, Scott]

Charles,
   Please don't take this as being disrespectful by no means, but the
past is the past and that old stuff had to go. For WPIC to become
compete in the market, we can't hang on to old technology. I don't agree
with all decisions that Lou Dickey does with Cumulus, but that stuff had
to go.
   I have a friend that restore a lot of that stuff for a hobby, but
that's it.  His main gig his digital audio/video editing and for that he
uses the best that money can buy.
   The ability of being able to play 78's or 16" transcriptions, and
even cassettes means nothing to the masses of today. I through out the
cassette machine at WMRO in January 2005. I think I pissed off a few old
people, but I told them, get with the program, and go to Best Buy and
purchase a CD recorder/burner. MP3s are the way to go! 

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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Charles Ring W3NU
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 8:04 AM
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Subject: Re: [BC] Sta-Level

One of my many points of pride at WPIC was to keep the ability to play 
any kind of disk record. 16" transcriptions and 78RPM with the right 
needle, vertical and lateral, etc. Even wire recordings. I figured a 
historic station still in its original building had a duty to do so. 
Cost: nothing, used old gear on hand. Benefits: goodwill from when I 
dubbed one of those to cassette or whatever for local people. Some of 
the ethnic shows would play 78RPM records in the main studio and they 
sounded as they were meant to, not the awful scratched noise people now 
associate with 78RPM, which reminds me of the horrible false impression 
that the public has swallowed about AM radio today.

All trashed when Cumulus ejected me in 2001.


Alan Kline wrote:
> Anyone know where I could find a turntable to play 16" transcriptions?
> Or anyone who can dub some?  I actually found some ET's awhile back at
> one of the local "antique malls" (indoor flea-markets) and I'd love to
> listen to them...
>
> ak
>
> ------ At 10:29 AM 6/6/2006 -0500, The Most Honourable Stevan A. White
wrote: -------
>   
>> Understood.  I too have a handful of old reels that I just can't
bring
>> myself to throw away.  Just like I can't bear to throw away the old
Revox
>> and Otari machines I have!  I guess when the time comes to dub them
onto
>> something that'll last another 20 or 30 years that I'll be set.  Just
dust
>> off the machines, clean the heads, tapes in a 250 degree oven for a
couple
>> of hours, let cool, dub to newer, better media, put old tapes back in
boxes,
>> store for another 20 years, tell grandkids about the glory days of
radio!
>> :-)
>>     
>
>
>   


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