{"id":32,"date":"2025-07-04T00:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yankeeradioengineering.com\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2025-07-04T00:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:31:40","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yankeeradioengineering.com\/?page_id=32","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"32\" class=\"elementor elementor-32\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c5913c1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c5913c1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0ae923d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0ae923d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I began my radio career in 1969 when I walked into my local radio station to see a friend and walked out with a job as chief engineer and the six to midnight shift. I also got to hang my newly minted first phone license on the wall. Oh, and the princely sum I was going to get paid was $7.50 an hour. There was a 1KW AM daytimer and a simulcast FM. My job was a program called Album Party. I put one side of an album on and let it track. When it finished I flipped it over and played the other side. When there were Mets baseball games I got to run those too. I was what was known at the time as a &#8220;combo&#8221; engineer, which was how most small stations managed to comply with the FCC regulations that required an on staff engineer.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began my radio career in 1969 when I walked into my local radio station to see a friend and walked out with a job as chief engineer and the six to midnight shift. I also got to hang my newly minted first phone license on the wall. Oh, and the princely sum I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yankeeradioengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yankeeradioengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yankeeradioengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yankeeradioengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yankeeradioengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yankeeradioengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/yankeeradioengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yankeeradioengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}