{"id":24906,"date":"2014-08-30T06:11:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T10:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24906"},"modified":"2016-10-26T12:38:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T16:38:06","slug":"the-first-live-videotape-delay-system-when-videotape-was-introduced-in-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24906","title":{"rendered":"The First Live Videotape Delay System&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The First Live Videotape Delay System&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When videotape was introduced in 1956, the phrase &#8220;time shift&#8221; entered the broadcasters lexicon. The original meaning of &#8220;time shift&#8221; was more of a  production management term in that now, a week of game shows and the like could be taped in a day or so and even over weekends instead of having to be set up and done live daily. <\/p>\n<p>Somewhere along the line, the need for a live time shift came into play and this is how it was done. The only way to add a delay into a live program, until the late 70s, was to record on one machine (left) and playing back the signal on another machine (right). The RCA TRT-1 and TRT-2 machines were perfect for this because they were rackmounted. <\/p>\n<p>If the flat decked Ampex VR1000s were next to each other, you could do it there too, but when tape decks began to be mounted at an angle, you couldn&#8217;t do this anymore because the tape path tension could not be maintained. That is why NBC, try as they may, could not add a 6 second delay to SNL when Richard Pryor hosted in 1975. Enjoy and share! &#8211; Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/722148081156077\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-First-Live-Videotape-Delay-System...-When-videotape-was-introduced-in-1956\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/722158781155007\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Live Videotape Delay System&#8230; When videotape was introduced in 1956, the phrase &#8220;time shift&#8221; entered the broadcasters lexicon. The original meaning of &#8220;time shift&#8221; was more of a production management term in that now, a week of game shows and the like could be taped in a day or so and even over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[780,724,720,782,788],"class_list":["post-24906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ampex","tag-cast","tag-host","tag-nbc","tag-rca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}