Window Studios

[thomas heathwood]

WKOX in the early 50's had a "remote studio" on the lower level of Shopper's World in Framingham. It was basically a small storefront, but people walking by could look in and see what was happening when it was in use.       Tom Heathwood
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: paulconnors@earthlink.net<mailto:paulconnors@earthlink.net> 
  To: Russ Butler<mailto:songbook2@comcast.net> ; boston-radio-interest@tsornin.bostonradio.org<mailto:boston-radio-interest@tsornin.bostonradio.org> 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:46 PM
  Subject: RE: Window Studios


  >Russ Butler wrote:
  >Does anyone else have a "window studio" story?

  My first commercial radio job was at WNEB in Worcester from 1976-1979.  The
  studios were inside the Galleria at Worcester Center, and one entire wall
  of the air studio was a window.  That window attracted quite a wide variety
  of the curious - multiple meanings of the word intended.

  Back then, Massachusetts Blue Laws still required stores to close on
  Sunday.  During one Sunday afternoon airshift I felt the "call of nature"
  and responded to it.  At the time the format was country, and all those
  *#@! songs were only three minutes long!  Soon, the song was finishing up
  even though I had not quite finished.  I ran down the hall with my pants
  around my ankles to start the next song.  Flying into the studio, I found
  myself facing two grandmotherly types, noses pressed to the window.  We
  were separated only by a pane of glass.  I started the turntable, waved
  hello, and ran back out of the room.

  I wasn't going to back in there until they were gone, dead air or not. 
  They soon left.  

  I had forgotten that one of the restaurants in the mall was open, and that
  diners could walk through the mall between the garage and the restaurant!

  Over the years, I would sometimes "embellish" this tale by saying that,
  when I saw the ladies I started the song, cracked the mic and said "This is
  Barry Wilson..." (the name of the midday guy), but I didn't think that fast.


  Paul Connors, (not-so-well) known then as Paul Stevens