RE: Bob Bittner's Unlikely Ally In The Fight Against The "CashMachine"

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@wavewizard.com>]

At 08:00 PM 1/28/00 -0500, Pete Ferrand wrote:
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>I always had a hard time conceptualizing, not the basic concept of
>course, but which controls get thrown in which order to go in and
>out and how to dump a bad word. Obviously this has to be done in
>the heat of the rather excitable moment in many cases.



Any station I've ever worked at that used the 2 tape deck method of delay
usually had a cart with some sort of sounder on it that was used over the
offending language.  The board op would be listening to board out, when
something to be dumped came up, switched to air monitor & potted down the
delay just before it went on air and hit the card with the sounder.  I
recall hearing this on WBZ in the pre-digital delay days.







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>typical small station setups where there's only one room set up
>this way, there's no way to practice the sequence, either, unless
>you come in when the station's off the air and then you probably
>won't hear how you did.
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>And to go in at the start of the show you have to start the
>program into the delay machine while something else is on the air
>and then get rid of that and bring the delay machine output up at
>the right time and make sure all the board outputs except one are
>switched to the audition channel, for the old style boards.
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>I was at at least one station where some operator (no, not me) got
>confused at the wrong time, and, instead of dumping the bad word,
>set up a loop so the bad word echoed over and over again.
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>My main use of the modern delays has been  a) when I'm late
>getting back from the bathroom and need a moment to get organized
>and  b) when the newscaster or whoever accidentally gives the
>wrong call letters.
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>-Pete
>Plainfield, NH
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