Radio Station Tour - WICC 1989

[cindyszu]

Was there '59-61 at the Exide studios. Never saw any of these toys. We had an Altec board rescued from the tv station on Booth Hill, two cart machines (wow! newest thing back then; no more cueing up 16" multi-cut CM's) and our own transcriptions made at the transmitter site. We had a crank phone to call engineering at Pleasure Beach (really!).

The FM station (WJZZ) was off the production room, nicely set up with two or three floor model Ampex tapes. Mono, in those days.

WICC rocked.

[FairBolFL]

When AM radio still rocked. 

[CChromatic]

I worked this board in '89-'90 - haha brings back memories!

[ROEJONO]

what brand is that board ?

[CantBeatCurtis]

@ROEJONO Probably a really old WardBeck

[retrochad]

I really like that jingle! I remember using these kind of Denon CD players when working at a radio station only they were the tray models and not the "cd cart" models.

[1370wlop]

Denon's that crapped out, and Carts! Thank god for computers! Automation and computers don't make for lazy, it's just the dumb ass jock who can't figure out how it works. 1998 sucked!

[koolbossjock]

wow!! Dennon 951's and Cart machines.A real control room,nice to see that instead of that robotic shit of today.Automation= Lazy jox or No jox.

[ClassicTVLover]

Great snapshot in time for the station - It was long before this video was taken that I last saw the station prior to it's move to its current location. Just wish there was more to the video - thanks for the trip down memory lane!

[NEPatriot]

Wonder what became of the State Street locale? Well now of course everything is done at Lafayette Blvd or Fairfield Avenue--7th floor.

[bill06492]

This video was taken at the old place on State Street in 1999 before the merger with WEBE. No such thing as ENCO then :)

[NEPatriot]

Were these taken at their present location on Fairfield Avenue in Bridgeport? Couple of years ago I went on a job interview at WICC. Most of the equipment has been replaced with digital stuff, mainly ENCO, though they still have the CD Carts and even cart machines.