That’s Debbie Daughtry with Stephen and Evie Colbert at WNYC, just ten days ago. WNYC recently announced another round of layoffs and today on LinkedIn, Debbie announced that she’s looking for a new job. Debbie does not live by Boss Radio 66 alone!
Debbie Daughtry / Sound Engineer at Ichiban Radio Productions
Hi everyone! I’m seeking a new role and would appreciate your support. If you hear of any opportunities or just want to catch up, please send me a message or comment below. I’d love to reconnect. hashtag#OpenToWork
About me & what I’m looking for:
Experienced Broadcast Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the broadcast media industry. Skilled in Streaming Media, Pro Tools, Adobe Audition, Audio Engineering, and Audio Post Production. Strong operations professional graduated from The University of Georgia.
Radio Host, Podcaster, Sound Designer, Audio Engineer, and Music Curator roles.
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Techmoan discusses a piece of audio equipment that I used to know very well in my radio days. A Spotmaster broadcast tape cartridge deck.
The sample he has could record as well as play tapes. Those were used in the production studio at the station where I worked and I had one in my little news room.
I produced a countless number of carts for news broadcasts. Those were either taken from phone calls recorded on reel tape and edited onto cart, or dubbed from cassette recordings I made in the field.
In the broadcast studio there were Spotmaster decks that only played tapes. Those didn’t have a VU meter. Another difference was they had a large, square play button that lit up when the tape was running. Much better for working live on air.
Let’s give a listen to another of Stephen King’s three radio stations before they all tune out. If I were to vote on keeping one of them on the air, which would it be?
Speaking of money losing operations, this weblog is costing me about $500/year. The service used to include backups, but now it’s an optional extra that I’m not going to add to my subscription. If the (shared) server blows up and all is lost, so be it.
The Beatles ’64 documentary is quite good overall. Some of the footage shot by the Maysles brothers that’s seen in The First U.S. Visit DVD is used again here, but the focus is mostly on the chaos surrounding the Beatles and contemporary memories of the events. There isn’t too much overlap, so the two movies can be considered complementary.
I have a couple of quibbles. Why is Smokey Robinson given so much attention? Film clips with Marshall McLuhan’s observations on the media don’t really add anything to the narrative. I’d rather have seen a bit more attention given to Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
George Harrison, in a 30-year-old interview, questions how DJ Murray the K showed up and was then allowed to tag along with them. Apparently, Ronnie Bennett (later Spector) and the Ronettes, who the Beatles were fans of, got Murray into their hotel suite.
The irony is that Kaufman’s ridiculous claim of being the Fifth Beatle didn’t work where it mattered — in the ratings. Murray was out of a job less than a year later when WINS, getting clobbered by W-A-Beatle-C, switched to an all-news format. Sixty years on, 1010 WINS continues to be a news station.
On a tech note, I watched the first half of Beatles ’64 with the Roku stick on the porch TV. The remainder I watched with a new Fire TV stick.
I did that because I had become increasingly frustrated with the Roku remote. It started with trouble controlling the Samsung TV’s sound, eventually leading to times when the remote lost its link to the stick. Then, for no discernable reason, it would work perfectly again for a while, only to fail again.
Assuming the problem was exclusively within the remote, I saw a new one would cost $20. Noticing that Amazon had put its Fire TV sticks on sale for half price before Black Friday, and not having a 4K TV, I ordered the HD model for $18.
The funny upshot to this First World Problem is, my buddy Bismo told me he’s had exactly the same problem with the remote for his Roku-enabled TV. He ordered a new remote, but before it was delivered the original remote started working again, just as mine had.
