{"id":5475,"date":"2010-05-05T00:46:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T07:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=5475"},"modified":"2010-05-05T00:46:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T07:46:30","slug":"my-first-day-in-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/my-first-day-in-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"MY FIRST DAY IN RADIO (OFF THE AIR)"},"content":{"rendered":"\"radio<\/a>\n

After graduating from the Bill Wade School of Radio & Television in Hollywood, I ran an ad in the “Situations Wanted” section of Broadcasting<\/em> magazine:<\/p>\n

“DJ, good commercials, tight board. Will relocate.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To my surprise, someone offered me a job. I sold my few belongings and moved from Los Angeles to a tiny town you never heard of.<\/p>\n

My first day on the job, the PD gave me the task of “carting up” some commercials.<\/p>\n

If you’re too young to know what that means, go read some other blog. No, wait \u2014 come back, I’ll explain.<\/p>\n

Commercials produced outside the radio station arrived on a 7″ reel of magnetic recording tape. A universal production chore was the transferring of commercials from the tape reels to tape cartridges, or “carts.” The carts are what we played on the air.<\/p>\n

Okay?<\/p>\n

My PD told me to dub some spots from reel to cart.<\/p>\n

To his surprise, that was a problem.<\/p>\n

Although during my four months of intense training at the Bill Wade School of Radio & Television I played<\/strong> lots of carts, they never taught us how to record onto an audio cartridge.<\/p>\n

I’m sure one of the highlights of my PD’s radio career was the day he learned the new DJ he’d imported from California didn’t know how to hit the “record” button on a cart machine simultaneous with hitting the “play” button on a reel-to-reel machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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