[BC] A Pirate Loop Hole?

[Rich Wood]

------ At 05:29 PM 8/15/2006, Mark Humphrey wrote: -------

>And I understand the console aboard that pirate ship came out of a
>station where you used to work, Rich.  It was an RCA BC-7 that had
>supposedly been donated to a local college, but somehow got diverted
>to Allan, then confiscated by the Feds... and I'll leave it at that!

Hmm. Now you've piqued my curiosity. I remember a GE, Western 
Electric, Langevin, several Pacific Recorders, Neve, MCI, McMartin, 
Logitech, Wheatstone and Sparta. There's one possibility but the RCA 
was in Master Control, not in the air studio. Actually, there were 
two RCAs in Master Control. The RCAs were operated only by our 
in-house union engineers. This station had an in-house bargaining 
group rather than a regular union. I know they were still there when 
I left. The station I'm thinking of was in a major New England market 
and didn't run commercials.

I remember a great conversation with an engineer who once worked for 
Radio Caroline. It was a terrible threat to the dull BBC. They 
actually played contemporary music rather than bird calls.

Rich


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