How about knobs on car consoles? Lots of vehicles with complicated digital displays that you have to take your eyes off the road to see.
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true, good one.
I still have a knob for my volume, but everything else is either a button or on the ipad size touchscreen. RIP!
I remember 590 am as WOW way back…probably the late 70’s, maybe early 80’s. It was our music station and all we listened to. One day, they switched to Country music. WTF??!!
The morning DJ was a guy named Dave Wingert (something like that).
Some other well-aged guys can back me up on this.
The morning DJ was a guy named Dave Wingert (something like that).
Some other well-aged guys can back me up on this.
Remember how pretty much everyone thought that being a DJ would be the coolest gig ever?
My high school had a radio station so we got to take a Radio class if you wanted and you would get a show...It was ******* fun
I actually worked in radio in college then a few years later. Then I decided I had to actually earn a living. It was not as much fun as I thought it would be. Mostly because of the crappy hours and working weekends.
The purple print and the smell of the hand cracked mimeograph or duplicating machine
definitely way before my time lol are you from the 1800's?? kidding
I love the scent of freshly printed money. Or, I assume it is at least. When its from the bank and nicely starched and pressed. Not that's related to your scent you mentioned. It just brought it my mind. And, I'm sure soon enough that the scent of fresh printed paper money will likely become a thing of the past as well.
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I played the Saturday Night Rock show for 21 years here as a volunteer. Was 9-midnight, and it was a fkn blast!
I did other shows on occasion and even read weekend news at times.
A live microphone is one of the most immediately humbling devices ever created!
WOW, KLMS, and WLS in Chicago. WOW had Wolfman Jack, those were the go to stations in the 1970's. You could also get Dallas Mavericks basketball games at night in the 1980's. WOW was a great rock station. Dave Wingert was on in the mornings and Jimmy O'Neill was the night time DJ.
Football message boards that didn't allow political talk...
KMOX out St. Louis had great range as well. WBBM out of Chicago was also another great one.
I have lots of memories of WOW in the 70s.
Here is an old song about AM radio just south of the border, with no wattage limits imposed by FCC
AM was capped at 100,000 watts if USA, Mexico ran the X at 250,000 watts and was heard widely.
Wall of Voodoo's song "Mexican Radio" is another one about the X.
WOW used to be a 100,000 watt transmitter I believe.
Wall of Voodoo's song "Mexican Radio" is another one about the X.
WOW used to be a 100,000 watt transmitter I believe.
I lived there!
There was a station that would play metal after like 8pm two days a week! I forget which one.
I remember being a sports nut without cable tv. I would listen to the San Antonio Spurs out of Texas, Cardinals baseball came in loud and clear out of St. Louis. Simple times back then.
I used to listen to the Spurs games as well. When I lived in Oklahoma I could actually get 1620 in Omaha when I was travelling to Tulsa
Me too. KOMA was 100k watts as well and shooting their signal towards KC and Omaha, likely St Louis as well.
A method used by those big stations was to line up transmitters to create a super wave of broadcast towards the larges audiences. If you ever studied physics, and wave theory, you can easily understand how these "directed signals" worked.
FM does not work same. FM is obsolete as well now with streaming services widely available. I listen to Husker sports on KLIN here in Alaska.
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SummitMedia has signed-off Sports "AM 590 ESPN" KXSP Omaha NE.
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Me: How'd you meet that girl you are talking to son.
Son: She liked my snap after I snapped her.
Me: Did you get her phone number?
Son: Why would I need that?
Me...
Born in Denver, adopted at 10 days old to Lincoln. Lived across street from LSE. I attended LSE when Solich was our coach and won back to back State Titles.
I read about Alaska in National Geographic at 7 years old and told my parents that I wanted to live there.
They did not believe me, lol. Fairbanks in 1984 and Kodiak in 1988.
Follow your dreams I say.
I second this. Good ole days. Lining up on Saturday night with some guy comes to town thinking he can "outrun" you on some old blacktop road out in the country.
George Gervin, Larry Kenon, Artis Gilmore. Those were some good teams.
I got to talk to George Gervin near the locker rooms of the Civic when they played a game vs KC Kings way back in the day. My pop played high school ball with Ron Boone, he was with the Kings at the time. He gave us some tickets and we got to chat it up with a few Kings players, on the way out of the locker room area, Gervin was standing there waiting to talk to someone in the Kings locker room. Very cool experience.
I was probably at that same game. I remember Gervin and the Kings’ Scott Wedman filling it up the whole night, like they were playing HORSE.
Can’t remember which year it was, but it was one of the last games the Kings played in Omaha.
Yes KOMA. And stations KOA also. Nuggets and Mavericks basketball at night. WLS had John Records Landecker. Boogie check. Best DJ ever!