Schafer "FRED 903E" Radio Automation System at 2KA in 1975
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Schafer Radio Automation System, well before computers as we know today, this system is a "Sequential Electronic Memory" that automates carts and reel to reel tape, this is a preview of the system at 2KA, west of Sydney in around 1975.
I wonder if I could still program the time file entries from that keyboard.
I started to get into the radio in Cincinnati around the year 2000. Yeah, it was pretty much over by then. And now, gone.
Syndication and automation sure killed my job as one of the last live DJ's in the Cincinnati Ohio area. No computer or sequencer can compete with a live request program.
I worked with a Schafer 902. What a piece of crap. The fellow in the vid talks about the "dehumanizing" influence of humans doing repetitive tasks, but 40 years down the road, the radio automation system has un-humanized radio to the point that you can go 24 hours without hearing an actual person on the air. Feh.
We still have one of these in place, however we use a pc these days. I remember setting it up years ago, it would hold 24 hours at a time. It could switch between studios or multiple sources, up to 19. In some ways it was more versatile than a pc.
At 3:10 there is a mis-labeled cart tape of an Elton John hit...
I'm surprised nobody got cancelled over that. Oh, it was 1975...
One of the US tabloids back around that time actually mentioned 2KA, because they had a 5-year-old DJ. I wonder if any audio of him from that era has survived---or was *he* replaced by the Fred? ;)
"And the first thing... it's not a computer." He looked majorly cheesed that the interviewer suggested it was. lol.