Further reading:
CHUM Radio Kingston, October 2003
Wolfe Island transmitter sites, September 2001
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| March Break in Kingston | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| By Ben MacMurchy, March 18, 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The CKWS-TV building, at 170 Queen Street in downtown Kingston. Corus Entertainment runs one television and two radio stations from this site: CBC affiliate CKWS (Ch. 11), classic hits/anything JOE FM (CFMK-FM 96.3), and Oldies 960 (CFFX). Radio operations moved back into the TV building in the summer of 2002, after nearly twenty years of broadcasting from their own digs in the north end of the city, at 479 Counter Street. Since the programming schedules on CKWS and co-owned CHEX (Ch. 12 Peterborough) are almost identical, CKWS' master control is actually in Peterborough at the CHEX studios, but CKWS NewsWatch is still produced in Kingston. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The very bright and open FM control room. AM is next door, to the left. Both on-air control rooms have similar layouts, based around Ward-Beck R2K-20 consoles and Scott Studios' SS DOS automation. Operations manager Jim Elyot explained that when the new studios were being designed, they had redundancy in mind: they wanted the ability to have any on-air room feed any transmitter. That abliity comes from the switcher, the grey box above the two Denon CD machines. There are FIVE computers in this room: from left to right, Scott PB (recording), Cool Edit, SS DOS (touchscreen above the board), Voice Tracker, and just out of the frame is a Burli news machine. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Radio production. Next door in the announce booth is CKWS weatherman Bill Hall, recording weather reports for JOE FM. Producer Guy Brooks is at the controls, facing three computer screens. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Back we go to CHUM Radio, for a look at the recent computer upgrades. Here's the CKLC (1380) control room, and some of news director Tara Clow's stuff... the news staff occupy this room for much of the day. DCS was running CKLC & FLY FM until about mid-November '03, when Scott Studios SS32 was put in. Now there are three computers in each on-air room: SS32 on the screen above the board; Internet, Cool Edit & KLZ NewsRoom in the middle, and the Scott Voice Tracker on the right. All control rooms have LCD screens mounted on heavy-duty arms. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FLY FM's CR, toward the end of music director Jacquie Beckett's afternoon show. The countertops in both on-air rooms were resurfaced, since the turntables, previously on the left-hand return, had been pulled out long ago, leaving just a couple of wooden covers and some gaping holes beneath them. Where a Revox tape deck used to be (bottom-right of the photo) is now home to a Behringer mixer. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Part-time producer Charlie Groulx using Scott TLC in the main production room. Each prod room has a larger 17-inch screen, for attention to detail when using Cool Edit Pro or Sound Forge. Further reading: CHUM Radio Kingston, October 2003 Wolfe Island transmitter sites, September 2001 Home |
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