Judging from how many copies of OTR programs are circulating out
there, I think most stations transcribed most programs and many
others down the line made line-checks (now learning the right terms
thanks to this list). So, bottom line, it was possible but maybe not
plausible. If it was a major market station, they'd have several disk
recorders, so possible they made 2 transcriptions at once or made a
copy for the person in your book. I imagine you'd need connections at
the station and a roll of bills to get that done back then since the
process would take the time of a station engineer and was thus costly.
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lou Judson" <loujudson@xxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] "Aircheck" history
Slightly off the topic but this must be the place to ask this -
Listening to an audiobook drama recently, in the story there was a live
concert broadcast on a major NYC radio station in 1939. Someone (the
private eye, star etc.) missed part of it and someone called the
station and was able to get a copy of the program - the same day. Would
this have been possible then? Wouldn't it have had to be the original
transcription disc, if any were made? It is a work of fiction so this
is more fact-checking than actual history, but could that have happened
in 1939?
Thanks,
<L>
Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
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