Rudy Paolangeli

Senior Editor

Retired WHCU AM & FM Ithaca NY GM and Morning Host 2/23/88. Part-time instructor 1963-1983 Ithaca College School Of Communications. Own and operate in home professional recording/broadcast studio.

Ithaca/Cortland Radio

Behind the “8 Ball”

04/19/11
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How many of you CNYRadio readers remember the Western Electric 630A microphone? Nicknamed “the 8-ball” due to its shape, this non-directional microphone was used exclusively at WHCU in Ithaca, New York during the 1940s and 1950s.