The Dave Saviet Collection
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Dave Saviet began his career in broadcasting at WRKL, a 1KW daytimer in Mt. Ivy, New York, in the mid '70's.
Since 1978, Dave's been busy as a technician for the CBS Network in New York City. He says he's been fortunate to have worked with the best in the business, like Charles Osgood, Charles Kuralt, Doug Edwards, Dan Rather and many others. He engineered Walter Cronkite's 20th Century for a number of years and worked with Dan Ingram and Cousin Bruce Morrow, to name a few.
In addition to the impressive collection of airchecks that Dave is sharing with Repository visitors, he also collects classic 45's and QSL's. Dave says that in his years with CBS he's had so many wonderful assignments that it would take a book to list them all. He also says that he has been very fortunate to not to have moved all over the country, like many broadcasters. We are very fortunate to have Dave's collection available in the Repository. Thank you, Dave! |
[Descriptions by Uncle Ricky]
Did any current-day computer execs pay any attention to the spot to write “Computer, c/o WOR-FM New York”? They were IBM’s and UNIVACs, then – serious mainframes without even a hint of GUI, but you could make up to 8, 10, 12 thousand a year, (or more, thankfully), as a programmer, keypunch or console operator! It was many years later when expensive IBM “PC’s” running “MS-DOS” appeared in radio station offices. Also noteworthy is the promo for a recording contract with MGM, just 8 years earlier, the call letters of another NYC radio station. Who says things change faster these days?