<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I was out there in repeater station-land loading up Merv Griffin after the Late News run... fast-forwarding through the slugs -- 30 sec on-air breaks and roll it back in on cue. Using the mechanical timer -- no time code.<div>A friend and I made a joke tape, "editing" on a TR-70C... just rolling an old spot tape through cutting it up with scissors, masking taping the splices together... snipping the edges for an audio insert... cleverly inserted a jump cut (while we replaced the reel), rolled the whole thing back and played "it" through --- hey! looked pretty good! Management didn't seem to think it was very funny.... ;-) </div><div><br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Bicycle tapes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">It was amazing to see how often we would use NEW tape stock on the shipped bicycle tape spots....only to see it replaced by some station down the line out in the field. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cause, I frequently got CRAP tape back and have also seen tapes stapled, scotch taped, and even paper clipped together.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Never was a dull moment in the tape room.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Allan<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">ilman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com</span></div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Joe Owens</div><div>Presto!Digital Colourgrade</div><div>302-9664 106 Avenue</div><div>Edmonton, Alberta T5H0N4</div><div>+1 780 421-9980</div><div><a href="mailto:jpo@prestodigital.ca">jpo@prestodigital.ca</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></body></html>