Saturday, April 09, 2011

That's easy to remember. . .

Here's a bit of radio nostalgia from Karl Tegland, who dug up the survey, above:

When I was in college, a friend and I were really interested in radio. We visited the studios of both WDGY and KDWB. The difference was like night and day.

WDGY was neat, clean, and very businesslike. It was like walking into a neighborhood branch bank. They had a place for everything, and everything was in its place. The DJ worked in a small soundproof cubicle.

KDWB was a mess. It was like walking into the front room at an auto junkyard. Dirty, messy, and totally disorganized. I still remember noticing that the carpeting in the studio was filthy and worn right down to the concrete floor in pathways where people actually walked.

The DJ was plunked down in the middle of a large well-worn room, surrounded by large tables containing records, technical equipment in various states of disassembly, lunch sacks, and piles of unrecognizable junk.

Wisely, KDWB kept its business and advertising offices elsewhere, in the Foshay Tower.

KB Tegland

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