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Poppinjay · 10-25-2005, 10:37 AM

Those are the same years I did college radio, but we built a brand new studio the year I started. It was actually nicer than the studio I inherited here.

I've kind of ended up with a career as a station builder.

First job - state of the art top 40 station with a news/talk AM.
Second job - station from hell, radio shack clock as an air monitor, cleaned up with new/used equipment by the time I left
third job - decent station, just adding digital as I left.
fourth job - decent equipment, but all of it broken. After four years of hammering on the engineers we finally had good studios and were just adding digital as I left.
fifth job - this one. No news department. No digital. Carts and CDs. Not even a synched network clock. And a klepto overnight guy who is approximately 80.

One time, he stole all of the framed pictures upstairs, re-framed them in cheaper frames, and then returned them to the walls. He also made a baby on the bathroom floor, and the girl named the baby the same name as his son through marriage.

At least my tenure with the good stuff has been longer here. Three person news department, state of the art stuff. Oh, and I fired that guy because he stole a box of sound dampening material while we were building the new studios.

10-25-2005, 10:37 AM	#9 (permalink)
Poppinjay You had me at hello Location: DC/Coastal VA	Those are the same years I did college radio, but we built a brand new studio the year I started. It was actually nicer than the studio I inherited here. I've kind of ended up with a career as a station builder. First job - state of the art top 40 station with a news/talk AM. Second job - station from hell, radio shack clock as an air monitor, cleaned up with new/used equipment by the time I left third job - decent station, just adding digital as I left. fourth job - decent equipment, but all of it broken. After four years of hammering on the engineers we finally had good studios and were just adding digital as I left. fifth job - this one. No news department. No digital. Carts and CDs. Not even a synched network clock. And a klepto overnight guy who is approximately 80. One time, he stole all of the framed pictures upstairs, re-framed them in cheaper frames, and then returned them to the walls. He also made a baby on the bathroom floor, and the girl named the baby the same name as his son through marriage. At least my tenure with the good stuff has been longer here. Three person news department, state of the art stuff. Oh, and I fired that guy because he stole a box of sound dampening material while we were building the new studios. __________________ I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet Last edited by Poppinjay; 10-25-2005 at 10:39 AM..