Re: [ARSCLIST] Classical Radio, was [ARSCLIST] Mercury co-founder Irving Green passes

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Richard L. Hess" wrote:

> At 10:46 PM 7/15/2006, David  wrote:
> >But they obviously don't listen on actual radios. Face it, nothing out
> >there is actually ever used by the people who design it or make it (public
> >washrooms,
>
> Two comments on this:
> (1) in the days I actually paid attention to radio (ended about
> 1989), the boards had off-air inputs on their monitor selectors.
> (2) apparently the producer for "Music and the Spoken Word" from the
> Mormon Tabernacle used to make sure the broadcast sounded good on his
> car radio over AM which could be frustrating when there was both an
> AM and FM component to the distribution.
>
> Richard L. Hess                   email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

That was the case at every station where I did live shifts as well. And the air
monitor was usually hooked up to some tin can with no antenna, so you checked
it periodically only to make sure the station was still on the air. (The
program director of the Oshawa AM station was once doing an afternoon shift
while the transmitter went down..he never listened to the air monitor so I
barged in on him in mid sentence and yelled "I quit!" Boy, I miss those days.)

dl