Carts were/are the best. Out of curiosity, which station(s) did you work at?

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Not true. Carts to computers were just a change in technology and carts could be temperamental. A good jock is a good jock, regardless ... and Ron Chapman was legend. If you want to see a modern-day master, just search for Ron Sedaille on KZfaq. The change for the worst in radio came about due to cost-cutting, voice-tracking and syndication. Radio stations today are nothing more than $$$ signs and a radio jock is a poorly-paid career ... which is why new/young talent is becoming hard to find.

So did CRC, Heller and others. But this isn't their KZfaq channel. It's ours. So we're going to talk about what JAM did for KVIL, which was four different custom packages including the one featured in this video.

Like I said...loved what JAM Creative did. But sadly their are jingle packages past and present that I enjoyed that I wish were JAM but were not. From one JAMFan to another.

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wb5oxq last place i ever heard this genius jock, and a lot of the former airstaff had a job, or still are there, is at sister 98.7 KLUV. I knew Jodie was there, cause of Jodie Dean and the morning team. Man, loved that show! Hardly get out to NTX often.

I think he was half of the Charlie & Harrigan morning show.

Ron had a stroke some years ago, but is still with us. (Actually, he lives very close to North Park Mall in Dallas). Jody Dean took over when Ron retired around 2005, but even Jody has since left KLUV (i.e. a couple of years ago) KLUV's present morning guy is Jeff Miles and to be honest I prefer Jeff over Jody. Jody became very unhappy at KLUV in his final year or two and you could hear it in his presentation. Btw, most stations stream online, so you can listen just about anywhere.

@@ApartmentKing66 Ron was Harrigan.

Not sure about JFK, but Ron did MC the Beatles concert at Memorial Auditorium, Dallas in September 1964. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hbmYgKmHsbTYfqs.html

CDs? I take it you're too young to have cued up records. And edited tape with a splice block, grease pencil, and razor.

Carts to computers were just a change in technology and carts could be temperamental. They were fun, but times change.

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Mike The Music Man it’s from their Celebrate package.

Mike Cullen That is cut #10 from "Celebrate". www.jingles.com/jam/radioids/demodl.php?fmt=1&stasearch=KVIL

No. Although they are about the same size as a consumer 8-track, those are professional broadcast cartridges (commonly called "carts") and they work differently. The tape inside runs in a constant loop and it contains 3 tracks: Left and right audio (for stereo) and a cue track. The cue track contains tones which, among other things, tells the machine to stop just before the beginning of the audio. That way when the DJ presses the start button, the music (or jingle) begins right away. Radio stations relied on carts from the 1960s through the 1990s, until CDs and then digital hard drive systems replaced them.

do they function just on single channels than 4

nope, it sure does look like 8 tracks though huh?! hahahaha these are actually just 2 stereo tracks with the same width of open reel to reel tape and running at 7 1/2 ips (unlike 8 track which runs 4 separate tracks of 2 channel stereo running at 3 1/4 ips. broadcast quality was the name of the game with these cart machines along with instant cuing! happy times, man. happy times in deed!!

Another difference between 8-track tapes and broadcast carts is that the pinch roller, the little rubber wheel that "grabs" the tape and enables the capstan shaft to pull the tape past the record, erase, and playback heads, is permanently inside an 8-track tape, but not in a broadcast cart. Look at the underside of both, and you'll see no hole in the bottom of an 8-track tape, but there's a big hole in every broadcast cart for the pinch roller to pop up through.