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Thank you, Lou, After reading the sample pages at Amazon, I immediately bought it; it looks like good fun and perfect for all of us who love the romance of radio's golden era. Rod Stephens Lou Judson wrote: > Thanks Tom, and all. Being fiction I am guessing he made an > assumption, but it was the music director of the venue broadcast from > that asked for it, so I guess it could be realistic... Otherwise the > story is very accurate for period details. In case anyone is > interested in recreated drama from the Swing era, it's here: > http://tinyurl.com/bg35k > > <L> > > Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio > 415-883-2689 > > On Feb 10, 2006, at 3:18 AM, Tom Fine wrote: > >> 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" <[log in to unmask]> >> To: <[log in to unmask]> >> 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 >> 415-883-2689 > >