The Island was supported with a local Radio and Television Station.  Both were located in the Bering Building, with the transmitter for radio station located up on Mount Moffett.  It was a Gates 250 AM transmitter at 890 KHz fed into a long wire folded dipole antenna.  I saw it once on a tour, but had nothing to do with it's operation.  The TV transmitter was at the studio on Channel 8 and ran about 125 watts.

This is the radio studio as it was when I arrived on the island.  The console was a Gates SA-40 old beast.  What a battleship!

In the same studio but about a year later, I installed this Gatesway console.  We also picked up a Spotmaster cart recorder and reproducer located just above the console.  The TV station can be seen through the glass on the far wall.

Threading up the old Ampex 350.

The turntables were Gates CB-77's with massive Gray tone arms. They could and did play 16 inch transcriptions.

Other folks had airshifts too.  This is Ron Norwood who had a couple of shows on the air.  That's my personal Akai 345 reel to reel machine to the left of the cart decks.

We did some remotes at the Officers Club and Teen Club.  On one of my trips home on leave, I built that green mixer to look like a Gates Yard.  It was very portable.  Wish I still had it.  That is Skip Westfield on my right who I have been in contact with.

Hey the gang is all here.  I can remember all of these folks but only names for some.  In the front row it's Woody Reeves, a guy we called Baby Beef for some reason, (don't think I ever knew his real name), and me to the right.  I don't recall the names of the two guys in the back.  Maybe one of them will see this and email me.

The AFRS mighty 890 record library.  All military recorded, but a fabulous bunch of tunes.  All categorized in a card file.  Check out that 16 inch ET leaning up against the cabinets.

You will see this guy again in TV.  He is Joe Adams and was the Station Manager for 1 year.  I have lost him somewhere in the past.  He went to work for the Los Altos Police Department for a while when we saw him last but that was probably 20 years ago.  Joe, are you out there?

Now we are over in TV.  I'm running a modified Dage video switcher that was never designed for broadcast.  We had 2 live cameras on dollies in the studio through the glass, with a 3rd camera in a telecine arrangement.

All of the audio breaks were recorded in radio and played back on these 2 Ampex 350's.  I cut most of the tracks for it.  The TV transmitter is clear over on the right.  What an education!

Here is Joe Adams in the telecine room, threading up one of the Bell and Howell 16mm projectors.   We were shipped all the latest shows, only by the time they arrived by ship, they were about 6 weeks old.

Finally, here is the film library where we stored the shows for airing on TV.