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<div>Happy Birthday, Fox 40!</div><div><br></div>KTXL celebrates 40 years on Channel 40 on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008. It's still in the same building that was largely an RCA plant (turnkey?) for many years.<div><br></div><div>Tape was TR-50's and 60's as I recall. There were several still in operation when I worked there shooting newsfilm in 1979.</div><div><div><br></div><div>Two TCR-100's were in use then, with the older machine used for news playback. Think I've related this story about the "engineer scramble" one night when one of the machines went down and both news cuts and spots played from a single deck.</div><div><br></div><div>They pulled it off, though.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Here's a 1985 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTXL">KTXL, 40, Sacramento</a> signoff in 1982... with RCA TR-600 and TCR-100 </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_J6ImIwFw4&feature=related%0A">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_J6ImIwFw4&feature=related </a></div><div><br></div></div><div>Under the Jack Matranga leadership, the station prided itself on picture quality and on-air "cleanliness." 16mm RCA TP-66's had PicClear units, which helped the station's movies—and later, newsfilm—look good. Movies and filmed syndication formed a large part of the station's pre-Fox programming.</div><div><br></div><div>The station had the first Type-C 1" A-B Roll edit suite in the Sacramento market using Ampex VPR-2's which you'll see in this 1985 sign off.</div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kz469Be8CQ&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kz469Be8CQ&feature=related</a> </div><div><br></div><div>The edit controller keyboard appears during the "and operates on a frequency of ___ to ___ MHz" in this Anyone recognize the editor? I want to say Paltex Vanguard?</div><div><br></div><div>Compare the two clips to see how the tape/telecine area changed in just three years with the addition of at least four 1" machines. </div><div><br></div><div>I have some 1" tape from the station (Ampex196-boxed) dating to 1986 and later that is still in good shape. As satellite distribution became more common, the station's tape library grew while the film section shrank.</div><div><br></div><div>Original cameras were a pair of RCA TK-42's on RCA badged Houston Fearless electric pedestals. Succeeded by TK-44's and later three TK-47's which were donated to <a href="http://www.pharis-video.com/rc8408~1.jpg">Chuck Pharris's</a> collection. You'll see the Fox 40 logo on the fourth camera from the left in the linked photo.</div><div><br></div><div>I remember watching the 10' O'clock news the night the blue tube (IIRC) failed in one of the cameras, and they couldn't re-arrange the newscast to do a two-camera shoot. It looked extremely odd to see anchors looking just fine in one shot and not in the next. The next night they did just a two camera shoot. </div><div><br></div><div>I visited CE Jack Davis a few days later. They had just received Sony 3-chip studio cameras from Tribune sister station WPIX, and put those on the air soon after.</div><div><br></div><div>Forty years from now, do you imagine anyone will be talking about what kinds of servers, hard drives and encoders the station was using in 2008?</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; 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