[BC] Early Radio Automation

[Ron Cole]

The BM station I worked for in the Late 70's early 80's had 3 - 270s, an ITC
Trideck and a single play along with a sequence controller. It was wired
directley to the audio processing with no other source for on air audio.

"Live" content got on the air via the single play deck.
1 Reel Track, 3 Comercials and 1 annoucment was a quarter hour...
Repeat for 7 or so years.

Ron



On 10/25/05, Phil Alexander <dynotherm at earthlink.net> <reader at oldradio.com>
wrote:
>
> On 22 Oct 2005 at 22:36, Robert Orban wrote:
>
> > My recollection is that Beautiful Music was the format that actually
> drove
> > FM expansion in the late '60s. Beautiful was either the #1 FM or close
> to
> > it in most markets back then. It was also cheap to do; no expensive
> > personalities :-). It was also easily automated.
> >
> > Bob Orban
> >
> > (whose first job in broadcasting was at WPAT in 1968)
>
> Not long before you started I had done a number of installs for Gates/ATC
> and I know that Gates, probably Schaffer and IGM would agree with your
> recollection. In fact, we were building stereo automation systems mainly
> for this (the BM) market. The hotter formats were mainly cart based e.g.,
> WRKO Boston which was a very large ATC SP-19 system, but those 14"
> Scully 270's thrived on a steady diet of Beautiful, frequently from IGM.
>
>
> Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
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