Mobile Studios

[Mission Control]

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From: "Mark Watson" <markwats@comcast.net>
Date:  Sat, 28 Aug 2004 10:55:40 -0400

>   WCAP's mobile studio still lives on 30 years later.I was thinking after
>my "WCAP vs WODS" post: how many other radio stations currently have mobile
>studios or had mobile studios over the years. 
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>Can anyone add to the list?

Well, I did some checking - and I don't know if this really fits into the catagory you're talking about -  but there's the WGBH bus. It's a 1970 MCI (model 7?), formerly of Greyhound's Trans-Rockie route. Converted to a mobile broadcast/recording unit in 1984. Originally used to record the BSO.

>From what I understand, it is currently held together with bailing wire, chewing gum, and crossed fingers. Not unexpectedly, as I'm sure this is all too familiar a case throughout all of radio.

Mike

btw, I asked about the digital broadcasting... from what I gathered, it *was* referencing the channel 44 broadcasts that someone on this list previously mentioned.