Re: Massachusetts Republican Convention Airing Live On WCAP

["gf" <gff@attbi.com>]

We went on air at 6am with Warren Shaw, Brian Bradbury and myself (Gary
Francis, I had been there since 4:30am).  At Noon Warren & Brian left and
George Anthas joined me for the rest of the convention.  We stayed on air
until 4:12pm.  We were using the phone line that we use for hockey (a POTS
line with an old QKT box being fed by a Mackie 1402 mixer - hooked to 3
hard-wire mikes, 1 wireless mike, 1 "pool feed", a MD recorder/player for
interviews, and computer generated audio from my HP laptop.  I also was
connected to the station automation system with PCAnywhere and was
controlling all the commercials, news, sounders, etc remotely from the
Arena.  I also refired the automation at 4:12 remotely from the Arena.
Before Dave & Mark comment on the equipment, no it wasn't the stations, it
was mine - pieces of The Saturday Night Sock Hop equipment (which will
resume in a few weeks on WCAP).

Convention was fun (except for the confetti explosion at the end - about 10
times more confetti than was needed). Tomorrows Lock Monsters game should
find random pieces of confetti around the arena.

-gary francis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Watson" <markwats@attbi.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 12:09 PM
Subject: Massachusetts Republican Convention Airing Live On WCAP


>    WCAP (980 Lowell) is airing the Massachusetts State Republican
Convention
> live from the Tsongas Arena in Lowell as I post this. The convention is
> being held in Lowell for the first time. The Boston TV stations, and New
> England Cable News all have their live trucks parked in the lot next to
the
> arena. So far I've heard weekday morning show host George Anthes along
with
> Gary Francis hosting interviews and offering commentary in between the
> speeches.
>
>    FYI, it sounds like they are using the phone line they have set up in
the
> arena for the Lock Monsters game.
>
> Mark Watson
>