[78-L] Smallest Transcription Disc?

[Michael Biel]

  I never got around to also say that we would get commercials and 
Public Service Announcements on 7-inch records also.  Usually the 
companies paid attention to the format rules and had small holes on 33s 
and large holes on 45s.  Some stations had problems with small hole 
7-inch discs if they had Russco type turntables with a recessed 7-inch 
area on the platter with a built in dual-size non retractable spindle.  
A small hole 7-incher was supported only on that spindle.  Many was the 
time I had to show some dumb-dumb that all he had to do was put an LP on 
the table first, or use two 45s first.


On 8/6/2010 9:39 PM, Ken "Silver Showcase" wrote:
>
> I worked at a small radio station for 26 years and we had to keep the
> logs for BMI.  Once each year for a certain period of time - I don't
> remember now if it was one week or two weeks, we had to write down every
> piece of music we played and the composer credited on the label.
>
> Stations who used pre-programmed tapes only had to send in the playlists
> of their tapes that they aired that week.  But since we played directly
> from 45s and LPs we had to keep the hand written logs.

I worked at a playlisted station, and even though we played the records 
themselves, we had the list for the week and we would check off each 
record we played.  Once an hour we could play a cut from one of six 
selected LPs and that we would write in.


>   Certainly there
> are worse things to do but keeping those logs was a real bother.
> Fortunately we only had to do it once a year.
>
> Another issue between radio stations and ASCAP/BMI is that they
> sometimes would send representatives to your area to see if businesses
> were playing your station in their stores where the public could hear
> them.  If they walked into a local hardware store and heard your station
> playing they would tell the store management that THEY had to purchase a
> license or stop playing the radio station in their store!

There generally were regulations about extension speakers.  The radio 
itself and its built in speaker was OK, but if they had remote speakers  
beyond the hearing range of the radio, then they would have to get a 
license.  It wasn't just radio, it was records also.  And they would hit 
every bar and restaurant in town.  If you used a music service like 
MUZAK, the fees were already built in.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com