Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!harpo!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!jlp From: jlp@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Re: Carts at Top-40 stations - (nf) Message-ID: <1518@inmet.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 07:49:41 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.1518 Posted: Wed Jun 13 07:49:41 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 01:28:28 EDT Lines: 23 #R:uw-june:-157500:inmet:6600169:000:1057 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!. The Organ Keyboard of Jerryl Payne {ihnp4,esquire,harpo}!inmet!jlp