Speaking of Beeeps

[Mark Watson]

Bill Smith wrote:

 >  I bet if you hopped on the Motorola 2-way today, keyed >the mic and said 
"KCG492 Base  to Unit 2,"  Mo would
>answer you.

   The "KCG492" WCAP newsroom base unit is no longer plugged in to the AC 
outlet, and I don't believe Maurice Cohen has a mobile radio in his personal 
vehicle, although the Motorola mobile 2-way is still mounted under the dash 
in the 1974 GMC mobile studio.

Bill Smith continues:

> I just wonder if the Grace Kelly Memorial Flashing Lights, >installed per 
> order of Ike Cohen after the ABC net bulletin on >her death went unaired, 
> are still on the newsroom window  >opposite the sales manager's office...

   Those lights are no longer there. It's possible they are still in the 
building , however, in the "museum warehouse" out back, piled amongst the 
collection of broken desks, chairs and other assorted broadcast stuff, 
including the Western Electric board that served as the main studio on-air 
console back when WCAP first signed on in 1951. It seems that once something 
enters the WCAP studios, it never leaves. <g>

Mark Watson