[BC] It wasn't the President this time.

[gRAdy Moates]

> Every mic has a listener or two. . .

    . . .and every mike is ALWAYS ON (unless it has a little 
slide switch on it that you can slide to the "OFF" position.  

    Mikes are connected to preamps that have pre-fader outputs, 
and that audio can be tapped off and fed into punch blocks, 
and sent all over a station.  I know of owners who did this 
so they could keep tabs on employees' doings.  They could listen 
in on at least one mike in every studio.  

    Illegal, yes.  Provable, no.