Post by Travis on May 22, 2006 5:45:15 GMT -5
I'm not exactly sure, but I seem to recall that at WAKY during the early '70s, the carts were grouped in this order:
Spots (commercials) were in the Lazy-Susan which was located at the end of the console supporting the turntables; station IDs, jingles, drops, promos and some of Burbank's stuff (door open/door close, etc.) were in the rack just below the Criterion cart machines; old songs (oldies) were all on carts and located all across the back (south) wall of the control room; and the current songs were on 45-rpm records and arranged in 4 stacks on top of the console and labeled A, B, C & D or something like that.
Anyway, I was looking at photos page 7 and was reminded that WAKY had a system back in the early '70s which prevented an oldie (on cart) from being played more than once a... week? day? month? I can't recall, but I do know that when the jocks played an oldie they were required to return the cart to the back wall, but only insert the cart half way into its respective slot.
Go to photos page 7 and scroll down to where Dude Walker is pulling (or returning) oldies and you'll see what I'm talking about. Many of the carts are clearly sticking halfway out of their slots. Returning the carts in this way served as a flag that those oldies had been played for the current week and were not to be played until maybe the following week when someone would reset the oldies by merely pushing all the carts back into their slots. And you thought you needed a computer to keep track of what oldies had been played for a given week.
If you look at the photo of Bill Bailey at the top of photos page 6 (at the time of this writing) you can see the east end of the oldies rack on the south wall of the control room and many of the carts are clearly sticking out as noted. This leads me to think that the carts were not reset, so to speak, every 24 hours but rather once a week.
Mike Griffin, Dude Walker or Steven Lee Cook may be able to clarify.
And how interesting when you consider that today we now have 24-hour oldies radio stations that play the same oldies over & over in a single 24-hour period and without the introduction of anything new, whatsoever.
Spots (commercials) were in the Lazy-Susan which was located at the end of the console supporting the turntables; station IDs, jingles, drops, promos and some of Burbank's stuff (door open/door close, etc.) were in the rack just below the Criterion cart machines; old songs (oldies) were all on carts and located all across the back (south) wall of the control room; and the current songs were on 45-rpm records and arranged in 4 stacks on top of the console and labeled A, B, C & D or something like that.
Anyway, I was looking at photos page 7 and was reminded that WAKY had a system back in the early '70s which prevented an oldie (on cart) from being played more than once a... week? day? month? I can't recall, but I do know that when the jocks played an oldie they were required to return the cart to the back wall, but only insert the cart half way into its respective slot.
Go to photos page 7 and scroll down to where Dude Walker is pulling (or returning) oldies and you'll see what I'm talking about. Many of the carts are clearly sticking halfway out of their slots. Returning the carts in this way served as a flag that those oldies had been played for the current week and were not to be played until maybe the following week when someone would reset the oldies by merely pushing all the carts back into their slots. And you thought you needed a computer to keep track of what oldies had been played for a given week.
If you look at the photo of Bill Bailey at the top of photos page 6 (at the time of this writing) you can see the east end of the oldies rack on the south wall of the control room and many of the carts are clearly sticking out as noted. This leads me to think that the carts were not reset, so to speak, every 24 hours but rather once a week.
Mike Griffin, Dude Walker or Steven Lee Cook may be able to clarify.
And how interesting when you consider that today we now have 24-hour oldies radio stations that play the same oldies over & over in a single 24-hour period and without the introduction of anything new, whatsoever.
. You will notice the 4-5 stacks of 45's top of the console. Yes, that was a "rotation" of the Silver Dollar Survey, with the exception of Friday afternoons when the records were played as the survey was counted down on that day. 
The Oldies 
, were in the back of the room by the entrance. Many 45's and LP's. I do not remember how many oldies were aired per hour, in addition to all the requests for those "oldies" or songs that dropped off the survey. Life was good and fun in the KHLB.