I didn’t work the camera on this clip, but I worked the camera on a couple other episodes in 1990. UKTF was part of Eastern Monroe Career Center’s Television and Radio program. Bands performed live on 90.5 WBER and the video was shown later on a public access cable channel. A childhood friend, Drew Michaels, introduced me to the show and the station, and I was set to work on the cameras. A few months later, after a changing-of-the-guards when seniors graduated, I somehow was the one running it.
It didn’t feel like I was running it. My involvement seemed trivial. I booked a few bands, co-wrote a theme song and cut a few promos, but on the day of the show, everyone set-up and performed with very little of my input.
Intellectually, we know radio waves travel so much faster than sound. Still, sitting in a DJ booth and hearing a band through the radio monitors — a signal sent by microwave to a broadcast tower twenty miles away and relayed back — before the acoustics of the band blaring out their amps, full volume and fifteen feet down the hall is a little tingly.