The history of broadcasting in the province is now providing us JOSELITO (Eduardo Torres), an important date for the men of radio. More than 50 names appear on their memories, within which is the award-winning Juan Gutierrez, who was recognized for his 40 years working for the City of Cañete. few days ago, after meeting in Concepcion with friends of a lifetime working in broadcasting in our region and country, we as always, a welcome opportunity to relive the endless and delicious stories, anecdotes, PM and experiences of our days of Radio.
One of the phrases used was how many years have passed and how it has changed the radio, a continuously moving strongly marked by technological change, but to a large extent maintaining its essence and spirit communicator despite unfortunate distortions happily in a lesser degree.
How can we forget our beginnings as I can know and use the "LPs" (aluminum discs that could be recorded with a special machine and then play) wire recorders (retained the sound on a reel of thin steel wire ), then move furniture huge Magnecorder recorders, Ampex, and Akai, with reels of tape reel and we marveled at his head which allowed extra produce a powerful echo. Time passed swiftly, and then all these systems were replaced by the cassette, DAT tape, MiniDisc, CD, up to virtual systems provides us with computing today.
So much for recording systems of the voice, the music on the other hand, evolved from the album of 78 RPM (revolutions per minute) via the single 45 RPM, the Long Play 33 1 / 3 rpm, cassette The CD, to MP3 file.
microphones also evolved, from the beloved "pancakes" RCA tape, through the special Neumann U.S. 87, reaching the AKG, Senheisser, Shure and many others.
would take too long to keep remembering the different technical systems that have marked the broadcasters, but as indicated by the title of this note, I really want to remember those who gave and give the soul and the human essence of this wonderful media predicted ever succumb to the overwhelming passage of the TV. Fortunately this did not happen, or happen, because the radio has been strengthened in its communicative function preserved its charm through the natural tool, the human voice, emerging as one of the most credible media.
While much of my professional experience evolved out of Cañete, it is also true that if I participated as a teenager in the beginning, with the pioneers in the province of Arauco, who has so well pointed out in his interesting chronicles my colleague Luis Flores Olave. (See here ...)
Formally the first commercial radio Cañete was founded in the name of Radio Tucapel, a passionate issue in the 60's, Don Manuel Gonzalez Plaza. Among his collaborators were, Sergio "Czech" Salas (Salas Germaine brother), Raul Gonzalez, Boris Rebolledo, Julio Campos, the "guy" Varela, Waldo Rodriguez, and others who collaborated enthusiastically.
Interestingly, Radio Tucapel for a period had international coverage, it operated in the 41 meter band short wave using an amateur radio transmitter, a Marconi antenna consists of two sticks connected by an insulated wire, supplemented with other rudimentary equipment such as pick up or turntable, using even a jukebox to which it approached a microphone to the speaker.
are all kinds of programs, youth, children, sports, and messages were issued notices to the community and transmitting news in a broadcast chain Santiago (Radio Balmaceda). As I recall, Radio Tucapel was physically located in two local sports clubs will surely support this "advance" for the people, these were the Caupolicán and youth sports. It was precisely where it made and transmitted the first live show in Cañete.
In the great hall on the second floor of Youth in 1966, these presentations were made directly with local artists and audiences. The moderator was Michael Gonzalez, voice soft and polite, while Manuel Plaza acted in radio control.
Among the artists were all the JET, the Morales brothers, Carlos Jara, The Rodriguez brothers (John, Waldo and Manuel) who would later be The Clifton.
was a program, if I remember correctly, leading Julio Campos seconded by Waldo Rodriguez that convincingly mimicked two old (woman and man) by tasty comments and criticisms of the Cañete then.
An anecdote: Hermann room taking their first steps as an announcer in an interview to a visiting group of blind Cañete asked them what they thought the city?, Forgetting that they could not see. A hug for the great work and best friend now based in Valdivia, in full force in the direction of Radio Bio-Bio City Street-Street.
Another told me how someone would have happened in real time when a doodle that was the cardinal sin Radio. Starring: Manuel Plaza in studies of controlling the first Tucapel Football transfer made from the stage Cañete tax by reason of a "classic" between Cañete and Lebu.
At the stadium, after the southern arc, the reporter was "Chico" Varela, premunity legend has a sandwich and a bottle of some liquid (which was not water).
Everything was fine, the story was very wise and tuning was complete, until it produced the first goal of Cañete cried like a pro by Varela, but ended surely cry goal agreed that Manuel Plaza was studies and added "pa cute whores goal Plaza gueón you missed, causing transmission failure Party with the departure of mother Varela, unthinkable for the time.
Later, still in Cañete, Luis Gerardo Rivas Millaray Radio installed (former President Kennedy Purén), with equipment built by the ingenuity and technical capacity of Arnoldo Soto Cabrera, bringing in that time a prominent speaker and a radio actor in Radio Portales, Angel Sepulveda, who was assisted by Juan Gutierrez Gfeller and Rene Espinoza. Also participating in the phrase Ximena Rivas, Luis Gerardo sister and my brother and friend Boris remembered Rebolledo Carrasco, responsible for my arrival to the environment.
were many more who wrote the first stories on the radio Cañetina and I apologize for the omissions, I participated in that time as a singer in children's programs (earning the nickname Joselito still remind me of some friends). My infatuation with the media was immediate and over several years whenever I started looking for an opportunity to be monitored Millaray Radio, in a rather informal, replacing Juan Gutierrez, Tito "Corporito" Muñoz, Sergio Manuel Rivas Barto or another brother the owner.
Millaray Radio began broadcasting on the premises currently occupied by the hardware Solucentro in corner Saavedra Videla. Some time later moved to the corner now occupied by the liquor store El Calafate, Videla street, then the studies were made on the side street to Villagrán, over the years, reaching its present location on the corner of Second Line Prat.
The transmission plant was located in the southern Belt Street (it was called then the street from the slaughterhouse) between Marina and Mariqueo about.
The antenna was composed of vertical wires tied to an insulator high ground and about 18 or 20 meters by a formidable staff eucalyptus with a "T" metal top.
is complemented by an AM transmitter of 100 watts, 6L6 amp tubes. In studies a mixer without top cover, yellow, switches electrical, pipes (if I remember correctly) 12Y7 all built and designed by the genius of Arnoldo Cabrera.
In 1970 or 1971, he moved to Radio Tucapel Lebu, a city that had no radio, where he worked Czech Salas, Victor Valenzuela, Nelson Zuniga giving me an opportunity, first as a control to start my first steps in the phrase (it brought Cañete la experience as master of ceremonies and organizer of shows (Revelation Youth), as well as a replacement for Oscar Castro animation unforgettable Carnival Center Cañete students (the traditional center of the big shows).
There
later I met this great friend who was the then "fat" Abel Peña Peña, manager of the first real communication efforts in that city. In that time memory
Rodolfo Montecinos, Tito Duran, Eliana Rhoten, Lautaro Lopez, Marcelino (San Sebastian for the miraculous) Lucho Sáez, Maria Trinidad, Lucho Zapata, Giraldo Gallegos, Mario Arancibia, Pepe Beltran, Germain Salas, Américo Giulucci Joaquin Valencia and others that the passage of time has allowed me to remember.
was a wonderful time in our lives radial where did everything: parties, football and basketball broadcasts, programs for various types, all events or important dates was transmitted by radio, even the masses. We did not have many resources and equipment, but good friends as the father Franz Benner who lent us his tape recorder and a microphone brought to us from Germany.
then get a professional writer, I think it was the municipality of Los Alamos, we marveled at the effect of ecorama and recording quality. Everything
to a pulse, but with much enthusiasm and helpful, the place where the station was operated the former rectory which had a large room in which to seek funding to urge the first disco Lebu, with a overwhelming success, which was later quickly Local copied more suitable as the Hanga Roa and the other located on the beach. We were surprised
1973 military coup and shift a radio broadcast of Santiago we took on shortwave, the tragic events taking place in the country, while in Lebu, around 11 am we saw through the window and in the corner of Saavedra and Bello talked with apparent calm the police commissioner and then mayor Aldo Pinto Miranda.
About two o'clock in the afternoon, continued to transmit events from Santiago, by now called the radius of the armed forces, disoriented and not knowing what to do. It was then, when grown in the village rumor of a possible assault on the miners to the magazine of the mine, the appearance of a fighter plane that flew over ground on one side of the hill The Malia, we have a real impact with the sound of its jet engine that were not used.
few hours later would come the saddest part: our Radio Tucapel passed control of the police and, although there was never any abuse to us, we were obliged to convey what we were allowed, prior censorship, including that the "sides" who called people to come before the new authorities, even then I suspected that this might mean for them.
The station, con el paso del tiempo cambió su nombre a Radio Teniente Merino, siempre con la dirección de Abel Peña, supongo bajo la tuición de carabineros.
Hasta comienzos de 1975 seguí trabajando allí y entre los hechos importantes que recuerdo está la instalación de la antena metálica de 50 metros de altura de la radio, (antes se había usado una vara de eucaliptos con un alambre adosado a la casa) donde nos ayudaron en los trabajos de cimientos y anclajes los internos de la cárcel de Lebu, ocurriendo una sabrosa anécdota.
Finalizados los trabajos, como una manera de agradecer a los reos, pedimos permiso a los gendarmes para que pudieran compartir con nosotros una empanada de horno y un vasito wine, to which they agreed.
came the usual speeches Abel and many more, considering the historical moment as suddenly Mario "Cochineal" Arancibia, took the floor and said that the only thing left for the ceremony was perfect, was the installation of a memorial plaque . He then removed his dentures and put on the table causing the disgust of those who ate the empanadas.
Another unforgettable reading news to two speakers next to Américo Giulucci, our "scripts" were pages of the newspaper El Sur and I was reading the news of a fire when I lit Américo the "story" with his lighter, hastily finishing reading while burning the paper. This "workshop" would be repeated many times.
Let me a line to recall the names of colleagues and friends with whom we share the radio in other places: Great radio-like Exzequiel "Corchito" Jimenez, "Tigre" Canales, Julio "Poly" Santa Cruz, Segundo "Chicken" Arroyo, Manolo Torres, Guillermo Olavarria, Elias Reyes, Mariano Ancapi, José Luis Perez. Featured speakers: Sergio Plaza, Federico Ramirez, Lucy Neira, Raul Sandoval, Milagros del Solar, Ricardo Vasquez, Jonathan Arenas Arturo Perez Garcia, Mario Chandía, Javier Navarrete, Carlos Muñoz, Jorge Castillo, Humberto Alarcón, Sergio Villanueva, Ismael Muñoz, Alejandro Saavedra and many more.
are many anecdotes and chascarros experienced since that time, maybe one day write about it. Now recall the origin of the celebration of Labor Day radio, an event that only a few workers and are reminiscent of the medium and very few broadcasters that allow the cessation of transmission for this reason.
All originated in Santiago and national holidays, the employees of the stations had a higher workload because it did large number of transmissions from the Ramadas, native skills, special programs for national holidays, football broadcasts, etc. ending with the parade.
Thus, employers decided to give radio a day off to rest their workers so they could share with their colleagues, with whom he spent much time even unseen due to the shift system, and may also share their families.
This was transformed with the passage of time in a tradition that lasted several decades. Later stations stopped doing these marathon days giving way to TV broadcasts of these events dieciocheros.
The mass of the radios, the disruption of the workers themselves, a change in attitude of employers (not all), the purchase of radio stations by large foreign consortiums and fundamentally a fierce competition among broadcasters who refused to give or broadcasts a second advantage to the opponents, finally ending with the celebration of the familiar and with radius turn as it was done.
Today this tradition is maintained only by small groups of workers are organized radio for a barbecue or modest walk without stop broadcasting stations, changed shifts, or the owners are made aware with the subject.
Although this celebration is in full retreat, the truth is that we believe should be maintained over time, because although the reasons that no longer exists, that automation takes a breath, the way they work is different is no less true that workers of working radios 365 days (and in some cases also at night) of the year, including Saturdays, Sundays and all holidays, including Christmas, New Year, etc.
expect a joyful celebration of all who have entered prostitution, that the meeting of camaraderie and friendship serves to strengthen fraternal bonds, to remind colleagues that started to express our Recognition and respect for the pioneers, making commitments to accountability, improvement and refinement as necessary for development of this noble activity to communicate and, of course, talk all day Radio issues, because during the year no talk ... .. something else.
HAPPY WORKER'S COLLEAGUES THE RADIO YESTERDAY AND TODAY!
Source: News Lanalhue
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