CFMI

[Jack Bennest]

If you had opened your files - I would not have to come up with all these
things..

If you notice its a sly way of getting the facts.

now this is the 1980 board

[Stn Brk]

Groovy lamps! Wonder what ever happened to them.

[radiofan]

If you notice its a sly way of getting the facts.

Your method reminds me of the way NW often got news stories confirmed.

If the couldn't get an answer out of someone [usually a union related story], they'd make up a story and run with it. Within minutes of the newscast someone from the union or from management would be on the phone telling the news desk the real story.

Sneaky way of "breaking news" .. but it worked for years.

There was a time when so much of the news on NW was union related, many thought the NW logo should have included a hard hat and a lunch bucket.

[radiofan]

Groovy lamps! Wonder what ever happened to them.

I'd forgotten all about those. They really did make the place feel homey didn't they?. All the studio needed was a fireplace.

Bob Boving's air purifier [negative ion generator] was a nice touch too.

[Russ_Byth]

That would be Dan Russell.... about 80/81?? (Maybe a bit later because of the 'puter)

Russ .. it is Dan ...Sports Talk was on CFMI in the early 90's before it moved to NW.

That's right RF...of course it was the 90's...not the 80's! Not quite sure where I put that decade! I do remember that CFMI early 80's studio... though I spent most of my time on McBride in the nearly identical AM one down the hall. Loved that intercom too!

[Stn Brk]

Intercom, eh? So were you one of those people who'd sit in a quiet room and flip the toggle switches to listen in on conversations elsewhere in the building?

That photo brought back a lot of memories - some of them good. John Tanner's teapot with God knows what steeping inside/the old Ampex at the back for Discumentary (whaddayamean ya can't change tapes during a 30 second spot?)/
pulling miles of tape out of hungry cart machines.

And you're right, RF, the newsies weren't above making things up in order to smoke out a story or two. Arnie Epp and his alter-egos, Klaus and Helmut, were notorious. I heard a great story a few years back about Epp phoning an airport pretending to be a Transportation Safety Board inspector to get details of a plane crash. Now that's balls!

[Russ_Byth]

Intercom, eh? So were you one of those people who'd sit in a quiet room and flip the toggle switches to listen in on conversations elsewhere in the building?.

Never had time to do that .... as an op I spent most of my time with my finger on the tape delay kill switch for the talk shows, or just wondering what Big Al was going to say next at the Pacific Coliseum!

[Jack Bennest]

and I would like to thank Rf for his input - there is just no other way that
TD can operate....

its his way or the highway


Actually I am looking for info on the Aristicart and somehow found this thread

now I must talk to DG about the cartridge and its inventor

[bryguy]

when don shafer left the fox didn''t stirling and bob join him sometime in 87? I think sports talk ran from 1989-97. Any possibilities of osting some discumentary airchecks?