http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ feedback.pdxradio.com Topic: 1963 Portland Radio-TV School Pamphlet en Sun, 26 May 2013 01:03:10 +0000 http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/1963-portland-radio-tv-school-pamphlet#post-42361 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:25:31 +0000 Alfredo_T 42361@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>Sadly, any style of radio DJ of yesteryear had more artistry and talent than what one finds in today's world of "Jack"/¢harlie FM non-personality stations, and the endless hours of automated programming that now dominate the broadcast days of both commercial and school music-formatted radio stations. When one controls studio equipment manually and talks live on the mic, there is no "UNDO" function!! </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/1963-portland-radio-tv-school-pamphlet#post-42339 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:59:52 +0000 kennewickman 42339@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>Some of us were just into being a boss jock of some kind , at a given talent level or another, in a given minor market or another ...Takes one to know one, and here I sit typing now, in 2010 and out of radio entirely for the last 4 years ...LOL</p> <p>I did get my chance to do that boss jock but not too screamy ( I dont do screamer very well ) thing in 1979 and again from 1986 to about 2004 or so..well it is how you think about the music. And how you as an individual buy off on the notion of presentation , repetition, the art of tight and bright and personality...in those respects and your role and talent in doing that kind of radio. I got a major kick out of it...after I first weezled my way in with technical/engineering talent to a degree..that is how i did it...partime and over about 30 years of total dedication to such play acting...FUN FUN FUN</p> <p>I had a gas getting to do it. Talking posts and cracking one or two liners in varying formats and some different flavors of delivery over time . </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/1963-portland-radio-tv-school-pamphlet#post-42318 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:30:18 +0000 Andy_brown 42318@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>I remember the second class test being 100 questions and harder than the first class test of 50 questions.<br /> Second class had a lot more troubleshooting type questions and the first was more theory related.<br /> Both had "legal" questions.</p> <p>Even though I was three fourths through my BSEE work, there was limited carryover from school to these tests<br /> so I borrowed some info from another student who had spent some money on a mail order course.<br /> I went in and passed the second and the inspector chided me into taking the first immediately thereafter.<br /> He gave me a deal on the fee, told me I'd save a trip into the city (NYC), etc. So I took it without studying<br /> for that element and missed it by one question!!! Argh. </p> <p>Back in the 70's having a first was a valuable asset. All those nighttime directional AM's needed 1st class operators on duty and most of them couldn't afford but one person to run the entire enchilada. Great experience programming the music, writing news, gathering weather and headlines, and trudging out to the array to<br /> take base currents during a long cut. I will say this, I never would have had the interest in radio back then if it weren't for the progressive rock format. No way I'd do that job and sit in a room listening to the same 40 songs every night and following a rigid format. I frankly to this day don't understand the attraction most of you have to that kind of gig. How limited. How un-creative. How boring. Screaming over the first 16 bars of a tune and taking some kind of inexplicable pride in being able to watch a clock count down backwards to the post. Sheez, didn't any of you play in a band? You can sense the post if you can count fer Jiminy's sake. I remember my first real PD telling me to play MORE different artists and don't ever talk over the music unless it's fading and your going into the net news or a commercial. I'll bet few of you can relate to that.</p> <p>Both Joe Allen and Roy Cooper used to talk about the school to me over the course of time. Joe I met back in the 70's and Roy when I went to work for KATU in the 80's. </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/1963-portland-radio-tv-school-pamphlet#post-42308 Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:24:38 +0000 kennewickman 42308@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>There are a whole group of us first phone operators who have walked underneath that 10KW feed line Mike Roberts swung from...and alone at that station in the middle of the night too !!! I count myself amongst this group of late night or early morning "signers on" the KYXI transmitter log out at the old Johnson Road location . </p> <p>I got creeped more than once in awhile along about 3 or 4 Am on an early Sunday morning cleaning the transmitter cabinet or reading a local break in the midst of NBC's News and Information Service network. </p> <p>I remember one time we had a visiting Transmitter/Tower Array consulting engineer out for a week or so. He was a South American gentlemen and though an Engineer , when I told him the Mike Roberts story one late night/early morning we were doing some antenna work , he got creeped out and kept asking me where this guy hung from and some other details that I didnt really know but filled in some hyperbole anyway because this guy was REALLY spooked over the whole affair, evidently...LOL&gt;..</p> <p>But alas , I also only have that lifetime ratty piece of paper in my Wallet that says " General Radio Operator".... </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/1963-portland-radio-tv-school-pamphlet#post-42226 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:10:51 +0000 semoochie 42226@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>Any relation to Mike Calkins? He lived in Lake Oswego and worked for KKEY in the 1980s. </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/1963-portland-radio-tv-school-pamphlet#post-42224 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:56:28 +0000 Craig_Adams 42224@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>So you were the overnight jock that replaced Michael Roberts? Did you stay in that shift? That would have been in November 1972. Did you go by Bob Parker on KYXI? </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/1963-portland-radio-tv-school-pamphlet#post-42221 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:21:34 +0000 Bob Parker Calkins 42221@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>I was so proud of that First Phone. It got me a job at 50Kw KYXI, but only after a creepy side trip. The all-nite guy had put on "Softly As I Leave You" and left- and I don't mean via the door. He threw a rope over some conduit in the transmitter room and hanged himself. The morning drive guy had to look at the body swinging through a glass door until the coroner got there.<br /> So remember how licenses had to be posted? I proudly handed mine, in a shiny new frame, to the Chief Engineer. Sadly, there was no place to post it. The board was full. Then he realized.....hmmm....so-and-so won't be needing his anymore.<br /> So my license ended up prominently displayed in the place of a guy who'd offed himself about 10 feet away. For the coupla years I worked there, I figured it would be a bad omen, but nothing ever happened. </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/1963-portland-radio-tv-school-pamphlet#post-23801 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:58:19 +0000 Tom Parker 23801@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>Getting a "First Ticket" for a jock was playing a game the Government had designed.</p> <p>Heck, guys with full on EE degrees had a tough time passing the tests. But in many small to medium markets you had to have a first or you couldn't get the job. There were just too many meter readings that had to be signed by a first holder for an owner to have both an engineer and a jock on duty. </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/1963-portland-radio-tv-school-pamphlet#post-23677 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:25:24 +0000 Master of Disaster 23677@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p><em>When did Airport Road go in? I know the road was in sometime in the 80's but not heavily used. It went to 181st and Sandy.</em><br /> I want to say it was more like somewhere between '92-'94. there used to be practically nothing along Airport Way past the airport except for the parking lots and the Economy Parking Lot near I-205 on the westside. If I remember correctly, eastside of the freeway was just land until the late 80s, but I do know that the main part of Airport Way ended at 122nd Blvd. (Yes, 122nd is officially Boulevard North of Sandy), and Airport Wy. was a small two-lane road until ending at 138th. </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/1963-portland-radio-tv-school-pamphlet#post-23649 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:45:23 +0000 Craig_Adams 23649@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>Everyone in a broadcasting class, taking the test was assigned an FCC test question number to memorized and bring back to the class teacher. </p>