Ed Nixon

at calpop server

Email address: ednixon at ix.netcom.com

Age: 53 years old
Height 5'11" weight 230' Residence: Hollywood
State: CA
County: Lost Angeles
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Biography:

A native of the Gulf Coast of the Lone Star State. Born on Friday, Nov. 13, 1953. In Galveston County Memorial. Have lived in Houston, Chicago, Phoenix, LaFouche Parish (near New Orleans), San Francisco, Bowling Green, KY and Los Angeles.

Career:

Now in Los Angeles, Previously at Venture Technology Group. Before that, I was director of technical operations at Max Media's WNKY TV, the NBC affiliate for Bowling Green, KY. Prior to that I was the chief engineer of KPXN 30, San Bernardino from 1994 to 2001.
Before that:


 "World Television" LPTV operators on UHF 27 & VHF 6 in LA, also worked on Value Vision shopping stations in Charlotte, Houston, and Atlanta. And THE BOX, Video Jukebox LPTV 58 in Phoenix. With Larry Rogow in Los Angeles.

Helped design "Commercial Advance" commercial skipping programming for home VCR's with Jerry Iggulden and
Alan McFarland in Los Angeles during 1995.

 "MARS FM 103.1" before that, in '91 and '92. Synchronized KSRF in Santa Monica CA and Newport Beach CA. A paper on this was presented at the '92 National Assn. of Broadcasters Engineering conference.

 -A new FOX affiliate for, well, Humboldt County, CA of all places, channel 23 in '86 - '87.

 KITS, "Live 105.3" San Francisco chief engineer, 1984 thru 1986

 KROQ, "Roq of the 80's" Pasadena, CA, c.e. 1981 thru 1984

 Circuit Research Labs in Phoenix/Tempe in 1980

 WEFM 99.5 in Chicago 1977 thru 1980

 KPFT 90.1 in Houston in 1976 - 1977

 KIKK 95.7 in Houston in 1976 - 1977

 KXYZ 1320/KAUM 96.5,Houston, when ABC owned them in 1976

 KFMK 97.9 and KEYH 850 in Houston in '74 - '75

 KGBC 1540, KILE 1400, and KUFO 106.5 in Galveston before that Attended a junior college (College of the Mainland, Texas City) and hung out at the Rice Media Center and KTRU in Houston before that.

 So what?

Hobbies:

I used to expose a lot of 35mm film. A Leica M3 Fan. I try and attend AES (audio eng. soc.) CES (consumer electronics show) and NAB (nat. assn. baboons) conventions. These shows are large commercial tradeshow things. DTV, Network Computers, Video Games, and genuine attitude in high end HI-FI. Class A Western Electric 300B triodes, anyone?


The next Winter CES is January 8-11, 2009, 2009. In Las Vegas, Nevada
 

The next NAB is April 17 - 23, 2009..
 
 

  • More grandiose than these trade shows are International Expositions and World's Fairs.
  • Here are some photos of my visit to EXPO98, the world's fair in Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Expo 2000, the world's fair in Germany ran thru October of that year. See the legend internet site at EXPO2000.
  • The next World's Fair is this year, 2008, in Zaragoza Spain. Click here to see Steven Urso Chappel's ExpoMuseum site with information about the history and future of World's Fairs. Urso has already been there. See Urso in Japan
  • The Time in Los Angeles is:

    • Some Links, and a photo or two

    1. EdNixon at the Airport
    2. EdNixon at the Airport; closeup mugshot from same visit
    3. EdNixon with the COMARK 12OKW ch. 30 x-mitter
    4. EdNixon at a street fair in a San Francisco alley, July '97
    5. EdNixon and the San Francisco Bay Bridge, April 10, '98
    6. EdNixon driving a truck, Feburary, 2000

      7. Photos of some of my weird friends

    7. EdNixon with "Elvis" a bartender at the Aerial Tramway bar, 8500' above Palm Springs, April 25, 1998.
    8. BeaRio, from Rio de Janeiro,UCLA Alumni, now at Philips in Sunnyvale.
    9. Rob and Ed at Rob's desk office at STOCKYARDS file footage, Manhattan
    10. Heath from N.C., Ed Nixon, and Heath's pal Tom at Santa Saturday '97, New Hope, PA
    11. Ed Nixon and internationally famous model & New Jersey laundromat magnate Joe Thomas
    12. Chuck Feesago at home in Avalon.
    13. Chuck Feesago, our pal Steve Kilfoy, and Bob, the dog...
    14. Famous bluesman Gary Floy with suprised Ben Bernheim, and unsuspecting stranger in betwixt them
    15. TEXT file of the Mr. Floyd interview in AMABEAR magazine #13, Aug./Sept. '97.
    16. A Photo from the Gary Floyd interview in AMABEAR magazine #13
    17. Stefan "STEF" Reilly of "Sal & Stef" on "THE SITE", on the ms-nbc cable network, at a S.F. street fair, July '97
    18. Robert Shields, architect/biker from Sacramento with his H/D Road King
    19. Jim Billy, that's Mr. Billy to you, licensed San Francisco Glassworks Artisan
    20. Jim Billy at work with his wares.
    21. Jim Billy at home with the laptop.
    22. Texas A&M alumni Robb Stillson with Ed Nixon at a 1997 picnic on Angel Island in the S.F. bay.
    23. Star of Foster Farms Chicken commercials, Lurch, on the right, at picnic
    24. Mike & Don from Portland OR.
    25. Mike Schmidt, a.k.a. "Cheddar". from Portland feels sunburned.
    26. John Musselman at Without Reservation in the Castro.(Now at "Clouds" in the Moscone Center, S.F.)
    27. Someone with Al Badger, and Mike Ohmen at an August 1997 picnic on Angel Island.
    28. 3 pix; Warren Jones at Rainbow Mkt. SF; Rob Cates at home; Chris Xefos in Las Vegas 1995
    29. Bruce Lee, no, not the asian, the tattoo artist, this photo from 1985
    30. Nick Barker, from Arkansas, Humboldt Co. CA, and now, Maui, HI
      31. Get this widget!

      Links to other places

    31. my personal "blog"

    32. an archive of my digital camera files on ednixon.com .
    33. recent photos I've taken on the smugmug.com photo site
    34. Laurie McCanna's Free Web Art site
    35. DTV stations on the air in the USA
    36. FCC DTV factsheet and list of stations on the air
    37. bears
    38. fish
    39. take a leak at Urinal.net
    40. Expo Museum World's Fair history
    41. WNKY TV
    42. Legendary Arizona pirate radio station KDIL
    43. chank -fontz-
    44. Jeff Nitewalk's "Las Vegas not commonly known"
    45. Radio 538 from Holland
    46. Recent California Earthquake map
    47. Live Freeway conditions in Los Angeles
    48. Nicholas R Eaton - Shoshone, Tecopa & Death Valley, California


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