[BC] Why FM took off in the 70 s

[Rob Atkinson]

Bob,
thanks so much for getting those links together and sending them out.  i 
very much enjoyed looking at them, and now i think i must have seen another 
radio station, but thought it was WABC.    the mics used then look 
interesting, some kind of dynamic i guess but i don't know what.  shure?   
there's a guy wearing a tan sports jacket in the 1964 photos sitting 
alongside the d.j. and engineer but who doesn't seem to be identified unless 
i missed it.   maybe he was a guest on the show.

thanks again,

rob atkinson
st. charles IL



From: Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net>
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To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] Why FM took off in the 70 s
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:14:40 -0400


As far as I know WABC as a Top 40 station always worked with the announcer 
and engineer in the same room facing each other. The time I first visited, 
they were still in old radio theater studios where the old drams were 
produced. They had two desks facing each other in a room that was nearly the 
size of a TV studio and nearly 2 floor high. There was actually a 'real' 
control room that over looked the space and dated back to the time of those 
dramas.

Here are some links to some of the various configurations they had over the 
years.

R


http://www.musicradio77.com/oldstudio.html

http://www.musicradio77.com/gates.html

http://www.musicradio77.com/avirtual.html

http://www.musicradio77.com/bill.html

Rob Atkinson wrote:

>thanks Dave; very interesting. I dimly recall seeing somewhere, b&w 
>newsreel type footage of a dj at WABC doing his patter while another guy on 
>a swivel stool pulled carts from a surround rack and put them in machines. 
>They were both wearing suits with skinny ties and had hair that had been 
>combed with bryl cream so it must have been early 60s.
>
>rob atkinson
>
>

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