KAAY in the Channel 11 building

I really enjoyed it when KAAY was in the Channel 11 building. We got to interact with the TV folks, without working for them. We got to enjoy the facilities and pay rent. There was an upstairs conference room that was very nice, designed for client presentations. We used it to record a band that was too large for the radio studios. In fact, I believe if you go to the top left hand search box and type in "Emperor Record" and click on "search this blog" it will take you to the record we recorded in the conference room of Channel 11. I'm sure B.G. Robertson (the Channel 11 manager) would not have approved. You know how bands are.

All DJs spend a great deal of time trying to break up other announcers and newsmen. Setting fire to the newsman's copy was old hat, but we still did it. More fun than that was to try and shake the TV people during live newscasts. KAAY was on the second floor of the building, and the control room overlooked the TV studios downstairs. There was a wire that came through the wall into the control room that was attached to the lighting grid in the tv studio. When you pulled on the wire it rattled the whole lighting grid. We didn't get away with it too often, because they soon figured out where the rattle came from...still it was fun while it lasted.