I spent six years working for a major Los Angeles market talk radio station which should probably remain nameless (but won't, because I'm too lazy to edit the picture). 50,000 watt signal, 24 hours a day. They are the west-coast's Class A FCC clear channel station. And also, quite ironically, owned by ClearChannel. >.<

So what does mission control look like? You're lookin' at it. These are the new digs after a consolidating move, so that's a beautiful all-digital board. Quick tour, from left to right: Screener's station, communal printer, audio workstation (with internet access for bored board ops... bored ops?), behind that and facing away is the news anchor position, the board (hallelujah chorus), the two LCD monitors on the swingarm are the digital audio automation system, the keyboard and mouse for it are below on the console.

Then, the turrets. First turret, top to bottom: Audio router, off air alarm, DAT deck 1, audio delay (for dumping swears), Cashbox (magic time machine!), two Tomcat commercial CD players. Yes, they actually use caddies. No, I don't care because when you press play, they play instantly.

Second turret: Emergency Alert System coder/decoder, high-end cassette recorder/player, DAT deck 2, MiniDisc deck. Believe it or not, the MiniDisc is alive and well in radio. Just like the DAT.

Third turret: VCR, Comrex Vector (allows digital audio transmission over regular phone lines), Comrex Matrix (similar to Vector), Telos Zephyr Xtream ISDN box (yay punny hardware names!), Telos Zephyr ISDN box. Believe it or not, ISDN is alive and well in radio.

Under the second turret is the phone for the call-in lines. That building through the window are the NBC studios (the Tonight Show tapes there). That's about it.

Don't worry, you'll see that desktop show up here sooner or later. Just wanna watermark the artist's name into it to give credit where credit is due, like I did David Allsop's webpage address.