[BC] Why FM took off in the 70 s

[SteveOrdinetz]

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>From: Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net>
>Reply-To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
>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
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>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.


Did I miss something, or were there NO faders on the console?  It looked 
like just switches.  Since all elements were on cart, were all levels 
pre-set?  Given the reliability (lack of) of cart machines of that era, it 
must have been a maintenance nightmare.  Were there any other stations that 
played music from carts that early?  I don't remember ever seeing it until 
the early 70s.