[BC] "Underground" (WAS: La st Sta nds)

[Mike McCarthy]

I'll have to ask Dan Trapani about that. His dad's construction company 
owned the station at the time and he was the GM.  I know...I worked for 
them in 1979.  But I don't recall the overnight stuff.  I recall the wall 
of the automation system.  Len Watson was one of the engineers.  I don't 
recall the other guy's name.

When "The WAVE", WTWV came on what was then WYEN sometime in the 80's, they 
played 24 hours of ocean sounds to debut the new short lived format. It was 
the first "new age" formatted station in the market.

MM

At 09:13 AM 1/7/2006 -0500, Dan Kelley wrote

> >and anything else you might like to throw in at the
> >time....say like....the sounds of the ocean.
>
>Shifting the topic a wee bit to the sounds of the
>ocean.
>
>Back in the 70s, in the Chicago suburbs, 92.7 in
>Arlington Heights was relaunched as WWMM - targeted at
>suburbsn housewifes.
>
>Basically an AC, the station featured a sex talk show
>in the middays (IIRC, hosted by a jock with a British
>accent) - and then late at night starting at 10 or 11pm,
>it would be nothing but the sounds of the ocean all night long.
>(introduced with a somewhat Ken Nordine-like voice that said
>"now on WM radio, its time to make love."
>
>I believe it was from the old "Environments" series of
>albums.  No spots, just IDs.  Around 4am, it would switch
>from the sounds of the surf to birds chirping - again, from
>the Environments albums.
>
>I believe they had it all recorded on reel to reel and just
>played alternate copies of the sounds segued on their Schaefer
>automation.  I want to say this was the Schaefer 800 series
>complete with the dreaded "spotter reels" - certainly fun to
>watch them look for a spot. (or was it 8000? - certainly older
>than the 903)
>
>I recall meeting their Chief Engineer - who worked all night
>as the operator on duty - and he said he'd go through the entire
>station at the beginning of his shift and turn down every monitor
>he could find to protect his sanity...
>
>I think the whole format lasted six months.  A noble 70s
>experiment...
>
>dan in lansing
>
>
>
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