Life Goes On...

My thanks to Leslie and Andy for pushing to put up this site.
At this writing, I am experiencing life between Radio, which is something you have all experienced as well.
It is healthy to reminisce about past stations and Air Staffs. Gives a sense of perspective and progress. That was then, this is now; now what's next?

Wouldn't it be interesting to share photos of past studios in which we've labored?
I ran across a photo that was from the latter half of the '70's at KODA-1010, when it was still owned by Paul Taft. I was working for Ed Shane and Jason Williams at the time, and attending classes at the University of Houston.

Both KODA-AM and KODA-FM were variants of the Bonneville/Total Music easy-listening genre, but on the AM side, we actually produced our own music tapes for the automation system (one of my first projects working for Ed). I don't know who shot this photo, but it was during a reel-change (as evidenced by Deck #3 in rewind mode).

KODA-1010AM Control Room c. 1976

The reels were good for about two hours. One of my jobs was to program the sequencing (with thumb-switches), and then enter into a RAM memory the cart numbers for the stop sets, which were played from those vast Audiofile Cart machines that ran the tape heads, capstan and pinch rollers on an elevator, up and down behind three stacks of carts (not shown in this photo.)

Ed Shane's morning show was performed live from the console shown, using a remote control box to trigger the next tape deck sequenced to play. This was the beginning of those changes from the traditional style of Radio, with a live jock, spinning vinyl on a pair of turntables, and the entree for the automated systems of music playback.

Life after KODA-1010 was grand for me: I moved to Tulsa, married, and had two wonderful kids. Eventually, I returned to KODA...
this time on the FM side.
But that's another post for another time.