[BC] logging question

[Gary Blau]

Most likely a Metrotech or Dictaphone (who later bought Metrotech) tape logger.
Multitrack, very slow speed tape, usually 15/16 IPS.  Some ran even slower at 5/16
IPS.

We had a -lot- of these things at RKO, and the lawyers were always asking for stuff
from them.
Not that it did us any good in the end...

g

Donna Halper wrote:

> A friend of mine (who used to work at the same station I did back in the
> mid 1970s) and I were thinking back to how the PD used to have to record
> everything that went out on the air-- but we were trying to recall the name
> of the piece of equipment that did it. It wasn't a skimmer-- it recorded
> everything, not just what the jocks said when they opened the mike.  My
> recollection was the equipment recorded at a very very slow speed and
> ultimately, it recorded over itself, but I vaguely recall having to check
> it and make sure it was recording.  I don't even recall why we used to have
> to do it, but every day, we recorded everything.  Does anybody remember
> what I am talking about-- it was some kind of a logger... it looked almost
> like a dictaphone or something...