[BC] Weirdo dials /was/ ABC Network in the wired days

[Scott Fybush]

At 10:49 PM 7/13/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>i have news for you Al, up into the 1980s WGN was cutting transcription 
>disks because Wally Phillips's show used them (that was how they inserted 
>the little voiced sound bites he would ad lib with which were his 
>trademark, in a day before PCs with MP3 files on hard disks).  He brought 
>in so much revenue they didn't mind spending the money on it, which was a lot.
>
>Rob Atkinson

The cutting lathes are still stored - in very nice condition - in the 
basement of the transmitter site. See 'em about halfway down the page here:

http://www.fybush.com/sites/2004/site-040101.html

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