WOAS-FM 88.5 will begin the new year with a Schwans Cares fundraising campaign to help replace some of our studio equipment. The WOAS EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT campaign will begin on January 1, 2019 and anyone who orders products from Schwans can donate to WOAS simply by including the campaign’s number 44259 . Schwans will donate […]
We left off Part 1 around 1997 with the newly remodeled WOAS-FM studio approaching the cusp of the new millennium with a new studio layout and all new electronic hardware. There were still things to be done but operating a radio station isn’t much different that owning a car or home: there is […]
If you are of a certain age, you probably remember when they used to predict what life would be like in the year 2000. The list of ‘gee whiz’ things would invariably include flying cars, personal jetpacks, or both. Nobody was predicting wristwatch communication devices (that was a little too Dick Tracey for most […]
The band that could be the next Beatles. This was never a good way for the press to introduce a band to the world. It has happened many times over, but it has never quite worked out that way. The pop band The Cyrcle were introduced on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand as “the band that […]
In Part 1, we used Robert Kurson’s book ROCKET MEN (Random House 2018) as a reference to examine how NASA stepped away from their normally cautious process of training crews for space missions over an 18 month period. The idea was to keep ahead of the Russians in the Space Race when intelligence reports […]
“Are you out of your mind?” he yelled into the phone. “You’re putting the agency and the whole program at risk!” The ‘he’ above would be NASA Administrator James E. Webb. On the receiving end of his tirade were his deputy at NASA, Thomas Paine, and the director of the Apollo Manned Lunar Landing […]