[BC] Why FM took off in the 70 s

[Sid Schweiger]

>>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.<<

Probably a producer, at that time a member of a union.  When WABC
started as a pop music station late in 1960, the control room held an
engineer (member of NABET), a "platter turner" (member of AFM) and a
producer (Producer's Guild).  The DJ was in a separate studio.  Throwing
cues was an adventure in timing, especially if the DJ came from a place
where he ran everything.  The DJ would cue the producer, who would cue
the engineer, who would (if the cue involved starting a record) cue the
platter turner.  By the time the mid-60s rolled around, the producer and
the platter turner had been eliminated from the mix, and the DJ and
engineer were in the same studio facing each other.  The air studio had
also been acoustically designed such that the speakers could be dimmed
rather than muted when the mics were open, with no resulting feedback,
so that the DJ and engineer didn't need headphones.



Sid Schweiger
IT Manager, Entercom Boston LLC
WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WMKK - WRKO - WVEI
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Boston MA  02135-2040
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E-Mail: sid at wrko.com