Monday, 15 February 2010

Versatility


The Mk III desk is a classic bit of 70s design work. It's rugged, reliable, elegant, user-friendly and surprisingly future-proof. Built in a time when a triple-stack cart player was state of the art broadcast technology the Mark 3 has been adapted by station engineers to cope with the arrival of CD players, mini-disks, ISDN, PC based playout and touch-screen OS selection.

Jim's photo shows the Mark 3 at BBC Radio Shropshire happily accommodating Radioman and the screen on the left displays incoming SMS messages from the listener.

Ironically BBC Radio Shropshire has had a significant technical upgrade since this was taken and now has the rather spiffy Calrec desks used elsewhere in BBC Local Radio.

(As a complete diversion from the point of this post, Jim is well connected with his audience. Apart from the Flickr stream he's @jiminthemorning on Twitter and his biog page on the BBC Shropshire site includes a mobile number that listeners can use to call or text Jim.)

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