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David Kaye wrote:
(Scott Dorsey) wrote:

See, you could make that into a fun tour, talking about the history of the
station and what used to be in this room and what used to be in that room,
and how technology has changed things both for the better and the worse.

Would if it were. The history of KDYA 1190 is Lou Ripa's KNBA in Vallejo with
a totally different format and nothing remarkable in its history (unless you
consider Lou's morning restaurant interviews of 40 years ago).

KDIA 1640 is an extended band drop-in with no history. The KDIA callsign used
to belong to a totally unrelated station (KMKY 1310).

THAT is interesting. That's something worth talking about... how we got
into the situation where the whole extended band was created. THAT is an
important part of radio history.

The offices are in a generic office building in Richmond, which could have
been a law firm or any other generic office.

There's no there there.

What is interesting about the station isn't anything that is in the station
itself, it's how the industry got to be where it is and how the station got
to be there. It doesn't look very exciting and the tour itself isn't much,
but there's a lot of interesting stuff that happened in order to get things
to the point of that PC automation system sitting in an office park.

And this isn't unlike other stations. Today's radio stations are computers
like people have at home, mixing boards like one might see in a DJ booth at a
nightclub, though not as sophisticated, transmitters are in distant locations
that nobody but the chief engineers visit. There's really not much to see.

No, but there's a _lot_ to talk about. Everything is in little boxes in
racks that look like every other rack in every other industry, but how it
got to be that way is the story of radio.
--scott
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