Memories Are Made Of This! 1959 Tour Of KOA TV, Denver
This will start as we are lead into the telecine room, complete with a telop machine…something many have never seen before. Soon we are in video control and at next up, we see two brand new Ampex VR 1000 video tape recorders. After that, we see some film editing and a UPI photo fax machine and then, we are in KOA Radio.
At 8:29 we get down to business in the television studios, equipped with the latest transistorized lighting board, rear screen projection and new RCA TK11/31 cameras. Thanks to John Schipp for reminding us of this clip…arguably one of the best local station tours ever. Enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee
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“6 monitors and a complex maze of buttons, lights and switches.” Funny, considering where I’m sitting right now.
Very neat. My favorite thing said was that they have 375000 homes with TVs in their market, Denver Colorado.
That brought back so many memories of my beginning at KFDA-TV, Amarillo in 1962 Thank you for that tour. Not many people today would know what a telop machine is.
This reminds me so much of WRAL-TV in Raleigh where I started as daytime video tape engineer in 1964…we had two VR-1000 Ampex flat-top VTRs, one in Master Control and the other in the remote unit back in the scene shop…I was constantly yelling at traffic for scheduling three taped commercials on a single break making me race through the studio to do a “hot change” on a tape machine…
What an excellent production! And a very nice facility. Great quality, thanks to those Ampex machines.
Where’s the camera cable on the camera he wheels between studios?