by Mike Cleaver » Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:30 pm
I like the picture of Ken in the CJOC control room.
I had a few pictures of that room that Chief Engineer Casey MacDonald and I custom built back in the late '60's.
We built the entire control room and all the components out of cardboard first and then let all the jocks have input into where they wanted everything placed before we did the actual build.
Unfortunately, those pictures disappeared during my move to BC.
By the time Ken's picture was taken, the extra cart machines to the right of the board had been added to send separate commercials and promos to the Blairmore station, run for many years by my good friend Daryl Ferguson.
When I first arrived at CJOC, we were using an old '40's Gates tube board, fully butchered by an incompetent engineering staff, two old 16" RCA turntables as big as washing machines, two old RCA RT7A cart machines and two old Ampex 350s.
The new room featured the McCurdy console pictured, three Gates Criterion Cart machines, two Ampex 440s and two McCurdy turntables.
The RCA turntables ended up being custom made cart carousels, using film cans and 16" transcriptions as components.
Talk about scrounging!
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