Wow this made my day. A friend sent me this video of the WOR studios back in 1984 (the boards hadn’t yellowed yet.)
I cut my teeth in radio a little after John A. Gambling retired, and first learned from Bill McEvily who was John A’s producer and was retiring right as I was coming on. My first days in radio were from this exact vantage point and I assume it was that exact phone.
We would do the logs by hand. We’d tape the Saturday show (shhh it was pre-recorded, don’t tell anyone) and meticulously check each other’s timing. I’d punch a number in the clock, say “8:16:37” and John R. would agree or not. Once we agreed we’d then do something like “ok, one minute weather, two and a half spots” and punch in “8:20:17” and agree again or not.
Assuming that the live Saturday weather and news folks stayed on time and hit their marks everything worked to perfection.
How nice to see everyone de-aged thirty years and those old studios again. Man, what I wouldn’t do to frustratedly throw a cart across the room again.
Enjoy!
Oh, there’s a young Howard Stern in here talking about his show on WNBC. Wolf man Jack is the default thumbnail but hit play.