{"id":27555,"date":"2014-01-29T05:59:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T10:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=27555"},"modified":"2016-10-27T06:57:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T10:57:07","slug":"in-the-beginning-espn-on-the-right-is-espns-first-remote-truck-pictured-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=27555","title":{"rendered":"In The Beginning&#8230;ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In The Beginning&#8230;ESPN <\/p>\n<p>On the right is ESPN&#8217;s first remote truck, pictured here at Compact Video in Burbank around 1979. The unit was called &#8220;140&#8221; and looks to be equipped with either Hitachi or Thomson cameras. The photo on the left is also from the early days and the camera on the pickup is probably hooked up to &#8220;140&#8221; at what may be Iowa State. Thanks to David Sturtevant for the photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/628622313841988\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/In-The-Beginning...ESPN-On-the-right-is-ESPNs-first-remote-truck-pictured-he.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/628622313841988\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/In-The-Beginning...ESPN-On-the-right-is-ESPNs-first-remote-truck-pictured-he\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/628624690508417\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Beginning&#8230;ESPN On the right is ESPN&#8217;s first remote truck, pictured here at Compact Video in Burbank around 1979. The unit was called &#8220;140&#8221; and looks to be equipped with either Hitachi or Thomson cameras. The photo on the left is also from the early days and the camera on the pickup is probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27556,"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":[683,692,795],"class_list":["post-27555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cameras","tag-remote-truck","tag-thomson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27555","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=27555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}