Re: stations still using carts

[Cooper Fox <fox893@yahoo.com>]

Hmmmm digilink...  I tool of the dark prince.  WABI in
Bangor still uses that system. Not much fun... 
Reliable, tho.



--- "Peter Q. George" <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com> wrote:
>      Believe it or not, WSHL-FM (Stonehill College)
> in
> Easton, MA is currently using carts and burned CD's.
> 
> However, carts are heading for extinction at 'SHL
> within the next few weeks.  We will be going to a
> Digilink Free system for (PSA's, promos and current
> playlist music material only).  The rest of the
> stuff
> will be on CD's and some vinyl material as well.  We
> already have a very basic Gateway PC automation
> system
> during the school breaks courtesy of Winamp.  Our
> legal ID's are automatically inserted using an old
> cart machine fired by a Radio Shack "vox-clock". 
> After three years, it has never lost a second of
> time.
>  It's so low-tech it's beautiful.  73.
> 
> -Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
>  Whitman, Massachusetts
> 
> 
> --- Shawn Mamros <mamros@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> > WMBR still has cart machines and some carts, but
> > they're definitely
> > headed towards extinction.  PSAs now come in on
> CDs,
> > and we've been
> > putting those CDs right in the studios for quite a
> > few years now (better
> > sound quality and less space).  Most local band
> > music we receive is
> > already burned on to CD as well.  For everything
> > else (promos, sound
> > effects, other spot-type stuff), we now have
> > DigiCart machines in the
> > new air studio - such a vast improvement over the
> > old carts that it isn't
> > even funny.
> > 
> > I won't be shedding any tears when we finally pull
> > the old cart machines
> > out.
> > 
> > -Shawn Mamros
> > E-mail to: mamros@mit.edu
> 
> 
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> Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
> Whitman, Massachusetts
>                            "Scanning the bands since
> 1967"
> radiojunkie1@yahoo.com
> radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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