[BC] the old board op mentality

[SteveOrdinetz]

Don't forget if you were the sign-on jock clearing the AP (or UPI) wire.  This was especially fun in the winter if you were a daytimer and had signed off at 4:30 the previous afternoon.  Seemed almost every day the paper would bunch up and jam the teletype machine so the last 12 hours of copy were all printed on one line.

>I sure remember pulling a top 40 board shift and having to:

>Keep a program log, including writing in start time of each commercial.
>Rotate the music.
>Pull carts for commercials and load the cart decks.
>Cue the 45s and ETs. (average song was about 2:30) Rip & read news &

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