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Word: techs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tech girl, on the other hand, is usually busier. She has to "ride the gain", seeing that the meter on the control board doesn't coast up into the red area which means that listeners are hearing an unpleasant shrill shriek instead of music. And between shows, when very often one theme has to be faded down, another theme faded up and down, and the first record for a show started all within about two minutes, the tech girl often wishes she bad three arms. The tech girl also has to "cue" a record, seeing that it starts...

Author: By Rona C. Harris, | Title: R-Squared Link With Tech Comes At Peak of 10-Year Development | 5/8/1952 | See Source »

...tech girl has one consolation, though. Nearby Boston station WHDR has a very powerful transmitter; and over the control room monitor, if she is so minded, she can hear every word of Gang-Busters or John's Other Wife...

Author: By Rona C. Harris, | Title: R-Squared Link With Tech Comes At Peak of 10-Year Development | 5/8/1952 | See Source »

...honking below. Hacks may be small, such as a slight mistake in wording an announcement. And hacks may be heinous, such as forgetting a plug or mis-naming a record or forgetting to give record credits to the store lending records for a show. And there are tech hacks too; when the P.M. announces "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", for instance, and the tech girl plays "Blue Skies"; or when a record starts with an eerie screetch, or when a 78 record in played at 33 1/3 speed...

Author: By Rona C. Harris, | Title: R-Squared Link With Tech Comes At Peak of 10-Year Development | 5/8/1952 | See Source »

...tech girl and the P.M. straighten up the studio, collect their varied belongings (the P.M. picking up the records) bid each other good night, and go home to bed. The tech girl is through for the week; but the P.M.'s night will not really be over until about 9:30 the next morning, when she returns the records to Briggs and Briggs...

Author: By Rona C. Harris, | Title: R-Squared Link With Tech Comes At Peak of 10-Year Development | 5/8/1952 | See Source »

Next year should be different, for Tech and Radcliffe have ambitious plans. The Annex station will move into new, larger quarters in the Holmes Hall basement, across the hall from the Cliffe music library. Studies will be twice the size of the present rooms. The control room will be flanked by two broadcasting studies, one of which could be used for "live" programs...

Author: By Rona C. Harris, | Title: R-Squared Link With Tech Comes At Peak of 10-Year Development | 5/8/1952 | See Source »

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