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There's nothing quite like doing a first show at a radio station! You're actually simultaneously learning how to use all the hardware AND focusing on keeping up a seamless program with no on-air errors.
The show simulated the format, pacing and energy of vintage Top-40 radio, specifically the Bill Drake formatted stations like KHJ in Los Angeles and CKLW in Windsor, Ontario. I used 1960s and 70s digitally remastered jingles, promos and contests from my collection and copied them to tape carts for airplay. The show also featured real vintage commercials for products which no longer existed.
As a weekend show, I had complete control over the contents. The show was a mix of well known tunes along with copious amounts of B-sides, as well as many album tracks which should have become hits in their time, but never did.
At 10,000 watts, we were getting calls and requests from most of Connecticut, Long Island and even parts of upstate New York.
Often long-distance listeners on the internet would also call in to make requests and comment on the show.
I had a key to the transmitter room and would crank the Aphex Compellor audio compressor settings WAY up to give our broadcast output that old-time sound of loudness and punchiness.
Every show was recorded on VHS-HiFi tapes and I've since remastered them to CDs for my aircheck collection at home. In fact, I'm listening to one right now as I write this!
I preferred to do my gig with the overhead fluorescent lights on, but turning them off gave the studio a pleasant ambience.
Yours truly deep into the radio groove inside the third floor of an anonymous nondescript brick building in Bridgeport, Connecticut. September 2005.
Doing this oldies show at WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, CT on Saturday evenings was probably the most fun thing I've ever done!
Ever since falling in love with the fast pace, tight formats and on-air personalities of classic Top-40 radio in my childhood years, I finally got my own shot it! (and it lasted for almost 19 years!).
As a weekend show, I had complete control over the contents. The show was a mix of well known tunes along with copious amounts of B-sides, as well as many album tracks which should have become hits in their time, but never did. Numerous vintage jingles and commercials from my collection copied to broadcast tape carts added to the overall recreation of the way radio used to sound.
At 10,000 watts, we were getting calls and requests from most of Connecticut, Long Island and even parts of Rhode Island and upstate New York.
A friend and fellow radio DJ and aircheck collector, Bob Gilmore, took this shot during my intro talk-up of the Jimi Hendrix tune "Are You Experienced?".
He also had an oldies show, but the approach was completely different. While my show was fast paced, highly energetic and reminiscent of vintage Top 40 and its "forward thrust" formatics, his show was laid back and educational. After each set of tunes, he would discuss the the back-stories of the artists and songs just played. I learned a lot listening to the tales and insights he spoke about to his audience. He was an absolute font of information and fascinating trivia about 1950s, '60s and '70s music.
Yours truly deep into the radio groove inside the third floor of an anonymous nondescript brick building in Bridgeport, Connecticut. September 2005.
Doing this oldies show at WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, CT on Saturday evenings was probably the most fun thing I've ever done!
Ever since falling in love with the fast pace, tight formats and on-air personalities of classic Top-40 radio in my childhood years, I finally got my own shot it! (and it lasted for almost 19 years!).
As a weekend show, I had complete control over the contents. The show was a mix of well known tunes along with copious amounts of B-sides, as well as many album tracks which should have become hits in their time, but never did. Numerous vintage jingles and commercials from my collection copied to broadcast tape carts added to the overall recreation of the way radio used to sound.
At 10,000 watts, we were getting calls and requests from most of Connecticut, Long Island and even parts of Rhode Island and upstate New York.
A friend and fellow radio DJ and aircheck collector, Bob Gilmore, took this shot during my intro talk-up of Led Zeppelin's awesome hit "Whole Lotta Love" from the spring of 1970.
Doing this oldies show at WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, CT on Saturday evenings was probably the most fun thing I've ever done!
Ever since falling in love with the fast pace, tight formats and on-air personalities of classic Top-40 radio in my childhood years, I finally got my own shot it! (and it lasted for over 19 years!).
As a weekend show, I had complete control over the contents. The show was a mix of well known tunes along with copious amounts of B-sides, as well as many album tracks which should have become hits in their time, but never did. Numerous vintage jingles and commercials from my collection copied to broadcast tape carts added to the overall recreation of the way radio used to sound.
At 10,000 watts, we were getting calls and requests from most of Connecticut, Long Island and even parts of upstate New York.
A friend and fellow radio nut took this shot using my Pentax Auto 110 camera. The smallest SLR ever built, it used 110 film!
At age 9, I became totally fascinated by radio and everything to do with it. One of best stations in Connecticut was a HOT, high energy Top-40 out of New Haven. Only 1,000 watts but it sounded better than most major market stations I've ever heard and had a much broader playlist as well. (Where else could you hear "When I Die" by Motherlode, Donny Elwood's version of "Where Did Our Love Go" and "Funky Worm" by the Ohio Players on a regular basis?).
They made 77 WABC down in New York City sound like rank amateurs with its stodgy, slow format and reverb audio that was a throwback to the early 1960s. Not to mention a playlist of about 15 songs interrupted by endless commercial breaks.
WAVZ was consulted by Paul Drew, known in the industry as a total perfectionist who would call and berate the on-air jock for the slightest mistake or format deviation. The DJs were amazingly good and the locally produced commercials, station promos and contests were incredibly clever and had slick production values. "CashCade", "The Money Pool", "High Stakes", "Don't Say Hello", "The Summer Beach Patrol", "Goldfinger", "The Phrase That Pays", "Diving for Dollars", "The Tantalizer" and so many more contests in a never ending array.
I recorded hundreds of hours of their programming between 1972 and 1976 on cassettes. Fifteen years ago, I transferred all this material to CDs as a labor of love and enhanced them using Adobe Audition. This was the station that heavily influenced my decision to go into radio (at least as a weekend DJ). It's still SO cool to drive around in 2016 and listen to WAVZ from the early 1970s blasting out of my car radio. Who needs oldies stations? This is the REAL deal!
I was the last DJ at the station to still use these. They gave my oldies show a real old-school sound between tunes. Besides, it was fun to fire them off during song intros and get the "magic overlap" up to the start of the vocal that modern automation systems aren't capable of doing.
Since I did the Saturday evening oldies show, it was my responsibility to represent the station at this event by broadcasting my program in this tent rather than back at the station's studios in Bridgeport. This was the one time when I had to learn how to use totally unfamiliar equipment REALLY fast! In the evening, we also aired a live performance of the Tom Tom Club, a local Connecticut band which contained members from the Talking Heads.
Reminds me of the 1973 hit tune by the Three Degrees, "Armed and Extremely Dangerous!".
I've placed some Flickr notes on the photo for more details.
This is the only remaining copy of the original print. The photo and text were published in the 1979 yearbook in the section describing all the student activities which were available. I honed my radio skills at WRNU which later resulted in a 19 year weekend gig on a Connecticut 10,000 watt station.
That was a plastic pellet toy gun which was almost always present in the studio. Being young and dopey students, we used to occasionally "shoot" our fellow DJs with thin, green plastic disks when they were on the air. It was all in good fun.
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2016년 11월 18일 금요일,
지훈님과의 이원 방송.!
01. Sunshine - 일곱시쯤
02. Hey Bae (Feat.팔로알토) - 정기고
03. 오빠방 올래? - 따뜻한 말 한마디
04. 구르미 그린 달빛 - 거미
05. 안갯길 - 벤
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카이와의 더블디제이 음악방송.! :)
01. 호재 - My Mind
02. 김범수 - 끝사랑
03. 임창정 - 슬픈 혼잣말
04. 박효신 - 야행화
05. Sam Smith - I'm not the only one
06. Apik - U you
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You never knew where the Summer Fun Patrol would show up!
I saw them in person once when they stopped at the Anchor beach in Milford. The Summer Fun Patrol truck was driven that day by Brian Phoenix, one of my favorite DJs. It was extremely cool to meet him in person AND to win a New Waves Boogie Shirt as well as a large package filled with promotional photos of all the jocks!
This scan is from a small photo in the Encore yearbook for 1978. That's a rack of carts in the background where all the jingles and promos were stored on the radio version of 8 track tapes. Those square headphones are so 1970s!
Radio was completely analog back them. No automation computers like today. You had to know how to back-queue records, fire them up at just the right moment after a jingle, talk them up to the vocal, remove the previous record, get the next tune ready for airplay and think of something clever to say. You also had to handle the phones for requests and write an entry in a log of the songs you played. It took work and experience to make everything sound completely seamless and effortless. I loved every second of it!
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토브코리아에서
지훈님과 이원방송을 시도했지만, ㅠㅜ
어수선한 1시간 방송이 되었지만
나름의 경험. 그리고 추억. :)
다음에는 멋진 이원방송 해봐요, 우리. :))
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샤인맘, 풀잎이 언니를 위한 1시간 방송. :)
언니 항상 고마워용~* 하트뿅뿅.
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The ever popular BBC Coventry Radio Personality, Irish Singer and Local Celebrity appearing at The Derwent Hotel back in 2011.
Turntables inside abandoned radio station in the Palouse region of eastern Washington (note reel-to-reel background left and crops growing outside door).
Shot with 1 Paul C Buff White Light 1600 bare bulb, turn against the model
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Former BBC radio and television presenter Ed Stewart will launch new community radio station AIR at Westfield Arts College in Weymouth this Wednesday. © Carl Greenham.
Westfield Arts College is attended by three to 19 year olds who have moderate to complex learning difficulties and any of the students are allowed to participate. © Carl Greenham.
The government grant has also been spent on purchasing industry standard software and professional equipment used by the BBC. © Carl Greenham.
Photo from the #ImprovAz 4th Annual #NoPantsAz Lightrail Ride in Phoenix, Arizona. This is part of The No Pants Subway Ride, which is a global event started by Improv Everywhere in New York in 2002.
This photo is under a Creative Commons license. Feel free to download and use it, I just ask that you give me, Joe Abbruscato, credit, and that you let me know you have used it by contacting me either here at flickr.com/mranathema or twitter at @mranathema.
my first wedding photography session
I was only glad that it was the wedding of Hani Farhana binti Mohd Hatim who is fondly addressed as Hunny Madu - a local artiste in music, TV and radio indutries, who has just released her single Miss Strong
I was an invited guest but agreed to take photos. Here are some of shots from the fabulous wedding reception
my first wedding photography session
I was only glad that it was the wedding of Hani Farhana binti Mohd Hatim who is fondly addressed as Hunny Madu - a local artiste in music, TV and radio indutries, who has just released her single Miss Strong
I was an invited guest but agreed to take photos. Here are some of shots from the fabulous wedding reception
AIR will begin broadcasting on the Internet at noon on Wednesday, where Mr Stewart will be joined by journalists, radio DJs, television reporters and other VIP guests. © Carl Greenham.
my first wedding photography session - evening reception
I was only glad that it was the wedding of Hani Farhana binti Mohd Hatim who is fondly addressed as Hunny Madu - a local artiste in music, TV and radio indutries, who has just released her single Miss Strong
I was an invited guest but agreed to take photos. Here are some of shots from the fabulous wedding reception
Media and radio station manager Carl Greenham hopes that AIR will broadcast on FM frequency and will become the official community radio for the area in the future. © Carl Greenham.
my first wedding photography session - evening reception
I was only glad that it was the wedding of Hani Farhana binti Mohd Hatim who is fondly addressed as Hunny Madu - a local artiste in music, TV and radio indutries, who has just released her single Miss Strong
I was an invited guest but agreed to take photos. Here are some of shots from the fabulous wedding reception
my first wedding photography session - evening reception
I was only glad that it was the wedding of Hani Farhana binti Mohd Hatim who is fondly addressed as Hunny Madu - a local artiste in music, TV and radio indutries, who has just released her single Miss Strong
I was an invited guest but agreed to take photos. Here are some of shots from the fabulous wedding reception
my first wedding photography session - evening reception
I was only glad that it was the wedding of Hani Farhana binti Mohd Hatim who is fondly addressed as Hunny Madu - a local artiste in music, TV and radio indutries, who has just released her single Miss Strong
I was an invited guest but agreed to take photos. Here are some of shots from the fabulous wedding reception
my first wedding photography session
I was only glad that it was the wedding of Hani Farhana binti Mohd Hatim who is fondly addressed as Hunny Madu - a local artiste in music, TV and radio indutries, who has just released her single Miss Strong
I was an invited guest but agreed to take photos. Here are some of shots from the fabulous wedding reception