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WCLV's control room/studios
are color coded, going back
to 1986 when the Radio
Ranch faciliities were built.
Each control room had its
own color of wires so the
engineers could identify
them. Hence there was
a Yellow Room, Red Room
and a Blue Room, which
became the names of the
studios. This identification
system has continued at
the Idea Center. This is
the Yellow Production Studio,
also known as Mehrlingland
where Production Manager
Jim Mehrling works his
magic.
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Operations Manager and
Music Director John Simna
in the Red Control Room
producing his Jazz through
the Night show, not heard
on WCLV, but on sister
station WCPN. Other
products produced
here include Weekend
Radio, post-production
for the national broadcasts
of The Cleveland Orchestra
and numerous interviews,
spots and promos.
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Program Manager Bill
O'Connell doing the
Drive Time show from
the Blue Room, the air
studio at WCLV. |
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Another view of the Blue Room
with MidDay host Mark Satola, |
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The only control room not
identified by a color is
the Talk Studio, designed
to handle casts of thousands.
Here, Chief Engineer Randy
Davis downloads national
broadcasts heard on WCLV
from the satellite feeds.
Robert Conrad suggested
it be called the Magenta
Room, but it didn't stick. |
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A partial view of the music
library, which houses
some 20,000 CDs, filed
alphabetically by label
and the label's own
numbering system. |
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Jenny Northern, WCLV's
Senior Director, and her
very neat office, with its
stunning view of the
fourth floor of the Playhouse
Square Parking Garage.
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The lastest addition to WCLV's art
collection is this striking 1932
Pathe' Record Company poster, a
50th anniversary gift from Tregoning
and Company, Tregoning is a
sponsor of Musical Passions
with Erich Kish. |
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All wires lead to the Grid Room,
also home to WCLV's
internet equipment and
satillite down link. |
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Narda Dixon is WCLV's Girl
Friday, assisting everybody, t, making sure there
are prizes to be given out for
the Movie Quizzes, arranging for
visitors to be met and escorted
to the WCLV complex in the
Idea Center, and too many other
duties to list.
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WCLV's bragging wall in the
reception lobby, displaying the
many awards that WCLV has
won over the years. |
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A valuable poster from the first
part of the 20th Century advertising
an opera performance in Munich
that you could listen to over the
telephone.
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Sixteen inch electrical
transcriptions, which many
radio stations used for music
before the invention of the LP
and 45 rpms. Stations had
libraries of hundeds of these
discs with all kinds of music -
dance band, country and
western, polka, Broadway
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WCLV's host of First Program,
who gets up at 4:00 AM in order
to be at the station by 5:30 AM
She sometimes, to the delight
of the staff, bakes something
before coming to work.
Here she works on program
prep for the next day's show.
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WCLV memorabilia on a wall
in Robert Conrad's office,
including a collection of
WCLV/Cleveland Orchestra
Marathon buttons, a 1983
Marathon poster with music
puns submitted by listeners,
which also appeared on
Marathon beach towels.
("Glinka, Glinka, Little Tsar"
"Salome Knew How to Get
a Head."etc.)
At the top, a 50th anniversary
T shirt from WKAN, Kankakee,
where RDC got his start in
radio at the age of 14.
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Another wall in Conrad's office.
The CDs are the Weekend
Radio collection. The three
photos in the black frame
are (clockwise) Bob at age
16 on WKAN; on the air at
the Northwestern University
student station (WNUR);
on the air at WEAW in
Evanston, were he worked
while at NU.
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An array of blowups of WCLV 30th Anniversary Print Ads.
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A closer look at our favorite 30th
anniversary poster. The date at
the bottom of the picture is
"November 1, 1962." The big
balloon coming out of the car
says, "You are listening to
classical music from WCLV,
95.5 FM." The smaller balloon
says, "What's FM?" On this date,
only 30% of the Cleveland radio
audience could listen to FM.
This was real pioneering.
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