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From: jlp@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Carts at Top-40 stations - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 07:49:41 EDT
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inmet!jlp    Jun 12 14:59:00 1984

Unfortunately, there are still some stations that don't have fast-forward
cart machines. Indeed, some stations only have three or four cart players,
or at most a "stack" of five. The latter of course can get by reasonably
well, bu try to imagine having to go into a stop set ( three commercials,
a promo, a teaser, and a jingle, each on a separate cart, for example) at
a station with fixed length tape. if you have a 4 minute song on a 5 minute
tape ( example only, please ) , you're down to two players for that last 
minute, unless you elect to pull the song cart and let it play out off-line.
Not a very exciting prospect.

On the other hand, the larger stations have access to carousels and walls.
I've seen carousels with as many as thirty carts in them (WMAR-FM, Baltimore ),
and walls of 100 carts (WCOP-FM, Boston, now something else). These allow
great flexibility for all types of automated and semiautomated formats. And
naturally, the fast-forward cue tone certainly helps!.


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Jerryl Payne
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