{"id":33366,"date":"2012-09-03T07:09:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T11:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=33366"},"modified":"2023-05-28T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T15:31:14","slug":"surprise-surprise-who-knew-that-abc-had-robotic-cameras-this-early-the-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=33366","title":{"rendered":"Surprise, Surprise! Who knew that ABC had robotic cameras this early?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise, Surprise!<\/p>\n<p>Who knew that ABC had robotic cameras this early? The cameras I think are Ikegami HK 312E models, or another early Iki, so this would be in the late 80s maybe. The center camera is on a Fulmar ped and there&#8217;s a human running it, but the other two&#8230;well, I&#8217;m just amazed at how big the robotics are, and the fact that they&#8217;re in use on the Evening News with Peter Jennings.<\/p>\n<p>After seeing this post, Kevin Magee, former executive producer of ABC&#8217;s <em>Good Morning America<\/em>, told us this is Mike Schneider doing the 8 AM news cut-in on <em>GMA<\/em> and Mr. Schneider has been good enough to confirm that this is him on the set in studio TV 3 in 1989. These peds were made by Radamec\/ECO and Vinten and in the US, sold by Listec.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/425544977483057\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Surprise-Surprise-Who-knew-that-ABC-had-robotic-cameras-this-early-The-came\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/425544987483056\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise, Surprise! Who knew that ABC had robotic cameras this early? The cameras I think are Ikegami HK 312E models, or another early Iki, so this would be in the late 80s maybe. The center camera is on a Fulmar ped and there&#8217;s a human running it, but the other two&#8230;well, I&#8217;m just amazed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33367,"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":[784,683,734,704,771],"class_list":["post-33366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abc","tag-cameras","tag-executive-producer","tag-producer","tag-vinten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33366","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=33366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79255,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33366\/revisions\/79255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}