Re: State of Radio In Hawaii
I remember the first time I had to turn the lights off at KHNR on Richards street. It felt a bit strange to leave the board knowing I won't be back for 8-hours. Last to leave, first to arrive (the next morning). I slept with one ear listening to that station and as soon as I heard dead air, I started counting up to ten seconds. After that time elapsed, I knew the Audio Vault program had crashed and I had to rush over to the station 20-minutes away to restart the computer. That would happen several times until the bugs were worked out.
My last stint in radio was programming the weekend blocks for KHVH and (then) KHBZ. No fun staring at the Prophet screen looking at programming irregularities when the Traffic Dept inserted spots that didn't work with programming. This wasn't radio, heck I may have been setting up a playlist for an iPod for all that mattered.
Radio was when you got butterflies in your tummy seconds before adjusting those headphones, hitting that mic 1 into program and moving that slider up to a comfortable level.
Pretty soon that "On Air" light outside the studio won't even be necessary and the need to quiet the studio monitors won't be needed as we go further into the realm of Voice Tracking.
Radio ain't radio anymore and it's getting worse
I remember the first time I had to turn the lights off at KHNR on Richards street. It felt a bit strange to leave the board knowing I won't be back for 8-hours. Last to leave, first to arrive (the next morning). I slept with one ear listening to that station and as soon as I heard dead air, I started counting up to ten seconds. After that time elapsed, I knew the Audio Vault program had crashed and I had to rush over to the station 20-minutes away to restart the computer. That would happen several times until the bugs were worked out.
My last stint in radio was programming the weekend blocks for KHVH and (then) KHBZ. No fun staring at the Prophet screen looking at programming irregularities when the Traffic Dept inserted spots that didn't work with programming. This wasn't radio, heck I may have been setting up a playlist for an iPod for all that mattered.
Radio was when you got butterflies in your tummy seconds before adjusting those headphones, hitting that mic 1 into program and moving that slider up to a comfortable level.
Pretty soon that "On Air" light outside the studio won't even be necessary and the need to quiet the studio monitors won't be needed as we go further into the realm of Voice Tracking.
Radio ain't radio anymore and it's getting worse
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