WHDH Boston, The Big Move
Below left is Keith Jordine of WHDH and on the right is RCA tech John Cimba making ready for the debut of their new color facilities in 1960. The videotape recorder is the RCA TRT 1B, which occupied five rack panels plus one more for color. Thanks to Maureen Carney for the photo.
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‘Today’ Show…Recycling At It’s Best! Dave Garroway was not the only one that needed a little optical help. News man Frank Blair needed some help too, but his reading glasses were useless when it came to reading the prompter. In search of a solution, the engineering department went digging for a fix. They found it […]
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CBS Television City Studio 36 and 46 are over 15,500 square feet each. Studio 41 and 43 are around 12,000 square feet each. That’s the kind of room it takes to do what they do. In the background, the RCA TK41s are out of the way as a giant piece of scenery is carefully prepared […]
The TRT 1B occupied five racks plus a sixth for color. The drum and capstan racks usually were located to the rear of the operation racks as seen here. This photo shows the transport, signal processing and control racks.
In the late ’50’s…KRGV-TV in Weslaco TX installed their RCA TRT-1 in a custom built trailer so as to go on location to tape agricultural, auto, furniture stores football games, parades in the Rio Grand Valley. The trailer backed up in the prop room to the projection room for studio work. When on location, made & aired kines on the comms. Will send Ellerbee photos… Oh..had a 5 mil head so as to air tapes from Mexico….tape speed was 7.5 inches per second.. Made a 30 min tape into an hour tape.. With a flip of a switch could chg from 15 to 7.5 ops. Fun times.
Actually the date is January 1960. Here’s another picture of the TRT 1A installation.
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Great stuff in those days we got excited abt ampex VR1000!
Worked with one of these at KVII-TV, Amarillo, Texas, in 1965. The tube tester was always on the ready.
TR-70 quads at KMGH-TV, Denver. Strange that KMGH at the time was a CBS affiliate, while KOA, the NBC affiliate, used Ampex.