[BC] RE: Putting Calls on the Air

[Barry Mishkind]

1967... Flagstaff.
The station owner wanted to emulate Joe Pyne.

He sat in the Prod room. He ran the audio into the 351, then into the 
control room into a cartritape. He didn't want to modify anything, so 
it was about 2/3 of a second of delay.

He announced 7 seconds on the air.  The kids at the college 
knew...and threatened me a time or two.  However, I never had a hassle.

I went on spring break, and discovered that the "fill-in" operator 
got three minutes out of an hour on the air. The owner decided to go 
'barefoot' ... and I just sat an cringed until the program 'died' for 
lack of callers.

Either that, or I fell asleep.

barry ... in San Antonio ... (Thanks Dan!  Thanks John!) on the way to NAB.

At 05:45 AM 9/18/2006, Harold Hallikainen wrote
>About 1970, the owner of the station I was at started a talk show ("What's
>on your mind?" often called "What's on your Homer," since that was his
>name). We did a tape delay by threading a 10 inch reel of tape through two
>Tape A Thon machines in the production studio. The Gates Yard production
>console was used for the program, feeding the first machine. The second
>machine drove the on air board, a Sparta something or another. I built a
>simple hybrid and bolted it to be bottom of a 5 line key phone. Took out



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Barry Mishkind     -       Tucson, AZ    -   520-296-3797