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WHRB now has most of its recording on 20-30 minute LP's and changes them by hand. There is an announcer in one room, and in another room separated by a glass panel, the controlman who is responsible for whatever actually goes out on the air. The controlman changes the records, and switches the "air" for music to an announcement or ad when he gets a hand signal from the announcer. This method is slightly cumbersome, but it worked well when the changes from record to record to "spot" are few. It does not work well when...
...merely inserts the cartridge he wants, and pushes a button when he is ready for it. He also has a high speed record changer, to cut down the dead air time between records. With a tape cartridge system and high speed changers, there is no need for a separate controlman--the DJ does the whole show himself...
Rash of Jokes. Inevitably, the hostesses have become known among Bonded birdmen as Pucci Galores. And the multicolor fleet has raised a rash of jokes, such as the one about the airport controlman who radioed a Braniff pilot: "O.K., dearie, take...
...Chin was not the first "human bomb" to be operated on successfully by American combat surgeons [Nov. 12]. During the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, Navy Fire Controlman Allen L. Gordon, aboard the battleship South Dakota, was struck by a 20 mm. antiaircraft shell that pierced his intestines and lodged near his left hip. He was taken to a makeshift field hospital on a South Pacific island, where the live shell was removed by three Navy doctors (of whom I was one), working around a chin-high screen of armor plate...
Perhaps the most significant fact about the radio business is this: we work to the second, and consequently close cooperation among ten to twenty people is the sine qua non of good programing. Program material has to be ready on time, as do the announcer and controlman; advertising copy has to be changed and re-written frequently and the changes noted and incorporated into our daily "log," the schedule on which we broadcast...