WIXK, western Wisconsin's youngest station, will welcome visitors to it's studio the first week in September when the station celebrates completion of its second year of broadcasting. When scout groups and other organizations have toured the station, children usually are surprised to see that the announcer sits at a desk and talks quietly into a microphone.
Silence is the watch word in the broadcasting room.
There are three record turntables and a large library of records near by. There are no doors or drawers which have to be opened to reach equipment. The broadcast room looks somewhat like an office, but there are no pencil sharpeners or water coolers in the room behind the glass panel. There is a unit with meters which record transmitter readings from the transmitter station three miles away. Adjoining rooms are quipped with desks, typewriters and telephones.