How about a peninsula-wide radio station...

Wow! Red Garter...you're a genius! That's a great idea...in fact it's so good, I think I'm gonna miss it next time I go!

"The wait for millennium force now is 10 min--- wait there seams to be a bulletion Millennium force is now closed Sorry"
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Actually, this leads back to the screens seen at WDW, about ride line statistics...that would be nice...why walk to the back of the park to find out Mean Squeak is closed??? (lots of us do that, believe me.)
We need something like that at the front and back, something that updates every 5 minutes or so...

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Ohh, the wait-time LED boards? That's a totally different subject....

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I believe a central loacation to broadcast music from has to be more economical that a handful of DJ's. Think of all the duplicate costs: cd players, music, DJ's, etc...

With one central DJ, you could do any/all the above mentioned ideas. I am not sure that an FM style of bradcast is the way to do it though. The amount of power required would require an FCC licence and those are never cheap. Doing it via some network connection seems much more managable.

They could then turn the DJ booths into concession stands and sell stuff to the captured audience in the queue lines.

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Yeah, but stuff has already been bought. They play from MD players, so everything on their play list is copied anyway.

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"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

matt2003 said:
Actually, this leads back to the screens seen at WDW, about ride line statistics...that would be nice...why walk to the back of the park to find out Mean Squeak is closed??? (lots of us do that, believe me.)
We need something like that at the front and back, something that updates every 5 minutes or so...
*** This post was edited by matt2003 on 2/5/2002. ***

Im talking like the dj should brodcast it!

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yeah um.. what your speaking of is called an MP3 network. Altough with all the hooplah with mp3's is be more like couple 500 disk cd changers with mulit-amps and all that good stuff. But my friend and I were discussing this last year while in line for MF. How can CP buy like 5 of every CD? Wouldn't you think they would of come up with something more feasable by now?? I would be a lot easier for them if they got an MP3 net, access to an unlimited number of songs, no CD's and it would make it easier on the DJ's. IT's what all major radio stations do these days so CP get with the 21st century!!
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Are you listening? They don't use CD's... they use MiniDisc with just the "approved" songs. Make your MD's, copy them, it's done. Even if they did use CD's, do you think the park would buy them? Of course not! The record labels would give them to the park for free.

And I've got news for you, hard disk audio has been around for ages but radio stations didn't upgrade to it until their CD players died. Why? Hard disks used to be expensive and station owners don't buy anything unless it will make them money or keep them on the air. The last two stations I worked for had three CD player's in the primary studio, but not more than two ever worked. That's how cheap they are. Hell, we still used carts for our jock stabs! Talk about ancient technology.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP, Sillynonsense.com
"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

exactly jeff, but now an mp3 net is very inexpensive, that's why I don't understand why they would use a MD, they could have alot more songs and variety with an mp3 net.

Let me guess, Jeff: Denon CD cart players.

Every station in America bought those damned things and they are absolute garbage. One of the stations I used to work with had five of them for the two studios and a rotation program: Every time one came back from repair it went into the air studio, and the broken one in the production studio went out for repair. One of the smartest things 'CBE did was to NOT buy those and to get standard Panasonic players instead. Not as user-friendly, but a whole lot more rugged. And none of those silly cartridges to fool with, which is important when your playlist is the entire music library...!

At least CP switched to MDs. When they first set up the DJ booths they were using cassettes. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Umm, the old "8-track"-like carts RULED! I never had a problem with them breaking down. I wish I could have said the same for the CD players...
jeremy
--who did a *little* volunteer radio in college

Yep... it was the Denon's. We had them at every station I worked at, and one was always in the "repair slot." The CD carts were useful in the commercial stations, especially the one where we used TM Century library CD's for everything, but they were not practical at my college station. Denon later came out with a drawer model, but by that time no one was interested in buying them. My college station eventually landed on a pair of consumer Sony decks for $100 each, and they've been there in use since '94. Sadly, the station itself doesn't get the use it once did.

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"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

Jeremy: Carts are a PITA. From a board-ops perspective, they're nice 'cause they sound decent, they're self-cueing...stick it in the slot and open the channel and away you go. Trouble is, it takes a bit of TLC from Engineering to keep them that way...there is no guide channel in the cartridge, and some don't have decent pressure pads, so precise adjustment of the pinch roller tension and the head alignment is critical on stereo machines...and when jocks are slamming carts in and out they tend to knock the heads out of whack. But that's not what Jeff and I were talking about.

Denon came up with a nice broadcast CD player in the early days of CDs. The disk fits into a cassette with a sliding door, so you put all the CDs into these little cassettes. Then to play them, you jam the CD into the machine just like you stick in a cart. Turn the knob on the front of the machine until the right track number comes up on the display, and wait for the machine to cue. Once it's done, punch PLAY, and away you go. At the end of the track, it stops automatically. You could also preprogram the next track, or throw a switch to put it into continuous play mode. The display would count the track time down backwards to the 1/10th of a second. Really a DJ-friendly design. But mechanically and electronically they were absolute garbage. They would overheat, mistrack, and generally have all kinds of problems almost never seen on much cheaper consumer gear.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Yep, I worked at a station with those Denon's. Absolute junk! I am now playing around on weekends at a station that is a computer. EVERYTHING comes off hard drives. There is one CD called "The Disaster Disk" in case the 'puter crashes. And it DOES crash!

Glad my income doesn't depend on radio anymore. I gots me a real job! Radio technology has changed. The BS hasn't.

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I would realy like to learn do use real DJ equipment!
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A trained monkey can operate the equipment. That's why jocks get paid welfare wages.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP, Sillynonsense.com
"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

So true, Jeff! And there is a line of monkies a mile long lined up to do it for next to nothing.
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"If we go any faster, she'll blow apart for sure!"

Well, i'm no monkey!
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