Vintage Technology Careers: 1974 RADIO & TELEVISION (Broadcasting, Film, Media Communication, Jobs)

[@KeritechElectronics]

The feeling when you watch this five decades after it was made, while running your KZbin channel :) Definitely a career for me, if only radio wasn't dying nowadays. I used to volunteer at a campus radio in my university days in late 2000s, doing electronics maintenance and some sound engineering. We had gear considered vintage back then - fully modular and semi-modular mixing consoles, reel-to-reel recorders, broadcast grade signal amplifiers... and some modern tech too, like computer-aided broadcasting. Things sometimes broke and needed to be fixed, it was a lot of fun. Hard to find a station engineer (or technician even) job nowadays. The Polish radio broadcasting landscape is all dominated by corporate networks rather than individual stations, and these rely on few mobile technicians covering a larger area, if remote access is not an option. Gone are the days of landing a job at your local radio station... IF you're still lucky enough to have a local radio station, that is!

[@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject]

Hi @KeritechElectronics, very interesting, thank you very much for sharing your thoughts and information on this. @KeritechElectronics

[@frankowalker4662]

Diggin' the 70's music vibe man. ☮ So many of those jobs don't exist anymore, esp in clerical.

[@marktubeie07]

09:02 Quick shot of The Galloping Gourmet, Graham Kerr, WOW !!

[@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject]

Yes, good catch! ~

[@leotellotandaital8615]

Estábamos mejor antes que ahora Amo esa época Detesto la "modernidad" de ahora Abobinable

[@marktubeie07]

I _think_ that is Rod Sterling doing the voice-over. If it is, it's kinda appropriate and cool !!

[@arricammarques1955]

It's not Rod Serling.

[@marktubeie07]

@@arricammarques1955 Ok, do you know who it is?

[@arricammarques1955]

Before robotics rendered TV Studio Camera Operators redundant.

[@roachtoasties]

The payroll woman who wrote a check for $451 in 1974 (8:20), is equivalent to about $2,821 in 2024. That's fairly good net pay for both years. Whoever designed the clothing for Lucille Ball, and the others on stage at 10:30, should be arrested by the fashion police. :/ But really, technology has displaced, or greatly reduced, many of these jobs. The way AI is advancing, eventually there may not be a need for anyone to appear in front of the camera. Everything will be computer generated and you won't be able to tell the difference between a real actor and a computer generated one. It's happening now. You don't know whether comments, texts, phone calls, and the like, are real or fake. The machines have already taken over.

[@soupwizard]

The narrator sounds like Rod Sterling; I half-expected the film to turn into an episode of the Twilight Zone

[@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject]

very similar voice, but pretty sure it is not Rod.

[@Afkarwataalimbenali]

Thank you

[@bblod4896]

I'm concerned for my grandchildren, what will be left for them to do?

[@itzhexen0]

I believe this is the future of AI. Only if it enjoys these type of jobs of course.