{"id":26739,"date":"2014-04-22T06:22:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T10:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=26739"},"modified":"2016-10-26T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:24:22","slug":"sports-graphics-back-in-the-daylong-before-there-were-digital-graphics-gizmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=26739","title":{"rendered":"Sports Graphics&#8230;Back In The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Graphics&#8230;Back In The Day<\/p>\n<p>Long before there were digital graphics gizmos, there were analog graphics gizmos. This piece of hardware was used at WHDH in Boston for Celtic&#8217;s basketball in 1964. <\/p>\n<p>In &#8217;64, colorcasting was trying to break out, but networks and stations that originated major sports broadcasts, would always take along a black and white camera to shoot either flip cards, or mechanical graphic boxes like this that would be super imposed over the field of play shots. <\/p>\n<p>ABC Sports always had a TK60 along in their color trucks and at times, would use the utility truck as the &#8220;graphics studio&#8221; with lights, the TK60 and the flip cards set up in the truck&#8217;s cargo area. My how times have changed! Thanks to Maureen Carney for the photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/663383717032514\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Sports-Graphics...Back-In-The-Day-Long-before-there-were-digital-graphics-gizmo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/663387127032173\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Graphics&#8230;Back In The Day Long before there were digital graphics gizmos, there were analog graphics gizmos. This piece of hardware was used at WHDH in Boston for Celtic&#8217;s basketball in 1964. In &#8217;64, colorcasting was trying to break out, but networks and stations that originated major sports broadcasts, would always take along a black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26740,"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":[784,724,732,787,788],"class_list":["post-26739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abc","tag-cast","tag-graphics","tag-net","tag-rca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26739","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=26739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}