umar
2021-09-20 16:39:42 UTC
Friday found me in central Vermont, helping with a radio broadcast from
the Tunbridge World's Fair. The weather was excellent, and we were
operating out of a pop-up tent. Lots of people wandered by; one
mentioned that she lived outside our station's coverage area but hated
our competitor; we gave her our URL and told her how to get us online.
We had to sign off in the middle of the afternoon to make way for a
high school soccer game the station was scheduled to air. It was
being played in a field where there's no power, so we loaded two
70-pound deep cycle marine batteries into the play-by-play announcer's
car; he and the color guy did the whole game off those batteries,
using a Verizon mobile router to get the game broadcast back to the
studio, where I was hooking up some equipment so a station in
southern Vermont can air Boston Bruins games later this fall.
The central VT station has a unique country format that includes a
good deal of bluegrass ("too twangy for you? well, that's too bad!").
The general manager is fond of playing bluegrass versions of pop or
rock tunes; two such, "Billie Jean" and "Everybody Wants to Rule
The World", aired back-to-back while we were at the fair.
It was a refreshing change from my usual routine.
umar
the Tunbridge World's Fair. The weather was excellent, and we were
operating out of a pop-up tent. Lots of people wandered by; one
mentioned that she lived outside our station's coverage area but hated
our competitor; we gave her our URL and told her how to get us online.
We had to sign off in the middle of the afternoon to make way for a
high school soccer game the station was scheduled to air. It was
being played in a field where there's no power, so we loaded two
70-pound deep cycle marine batteries into the play-by-play announcer's
car; he and the color guy did the whole game off those batteries,
using a Verizon mobile router to get the game broadcast back to the
studio, where I was hooking up some equipment so a station in
southern Vermont can air Boston Bruins games later this fall.
The central VT station has a unique country format that includes a
good deal of bluegrass ("too twangy for you? well, that's too bad!").
The general manager is fond of playing bluegrass versions of pop or
rock tunes; two such, "Billie Jean" and "Everybody Wants to Rule
The World", aired back-to-back while we were at the fair.
It was a refreshing change from my usual routine.
umar