— Late August, 2002
Pictured is the set-up in Brentwood Town Center in August 2002 for an event that honoured the late broadcaster Jack Cullen for his contribution to the Vancouver radio and music scene. In the 70s, Jack ran a record store in Brentwood Mall, with his own broadcast studio in the rear. In those years, his shows originated in that studio. It was big enought to have a smallish audience of artists and friends as part of the shows. The Northern Electric console he used there is the very one we use now as the museum’s master control!
Here’s an excellent shot of our “remote”, with operator Peter at the controls of our restored McCurdy 1950s remote control board (described in more detail elswhere on this site).
The setup here for tape machines used a play-only Revox PR-99, left of the console, and an Ampex AG-440 (with a Jack Cullen 16-inch transcription hanging on the back of it). Aside from microphones, the other source is an ITC triple-deck cartridge machine. Since we have all our material copied to tape or carts, this makes a complete programming set-up without turntables. The large mock “cathedral” radio at the front is really only a playback speaker, made years ago by CKNW for their remotes at the Pacific National Exhibition.
Two other interesting items were on display on the table, seen at the upper right: a Magnecord PT-6 from 1952 (it still has the CKNW “Top-Dog” logo!), and a Magnemite “portable” recorder that had a wind-up motor, such as on an antique Victrola.
