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<div>Ted may want to change the subject line, but in the case of NBC New York history, I came across the following: "The first recorded network use of the digital frame store synchronizer occurred 7 April 1974 at NBC facilities in New York. Tennis matches being covered in Germany and transmitted via satellite were introduced or integrated into an NBC program." I do not know if this was the NEC FS 10, or the Quantel DFS S3000. Or ??? Someone a while back suggested that it may have been a Quantel unit. </div>
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<div>Attached here is a scan from the DC Video archives, the NEC FS 10. Two of these went to NBC Burbank.</div>
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From: Dennis Degan <DennyD1@verizon.net><br>
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Sent: Sun, Jul 19, 2009 9:59 am<br>
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Cronkite's first half-hour newscast... count the tape roll ins<br>
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On Jul 18, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Ted Langdell wrote: <br>
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> True enough about monitors and sets. <br>
> This is from September 1962... so the question would be... did CBS,
NYC have Intersync on playback machines at that time? The Geritol spot
also rolls when taken. <br>
> Intersync was introduced at the SMPTE conference in April, 1960. <br>
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I reply: <br>
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I think it's safe to say that CBS had Intersync. There are a couple
of possible answers to the question concerning the breakups. My first
thought was that the tape was rolled and taken too soon; before the
tape had finished locking up. But at the end of the Kennedy interview
clip, there's another breakup when switching back to Cronkite's live
studio camera so it appears that the VTR playing the Kennedy interview
was not vertically locked. Cronkite said that the interview took place
earlier that day. Cronkite himself was seen in the interview clip.
It's certainly possible for Cronkite to do the interview in the morning
and fly back to New York to do the newscast that evening. They
probably did not have a telco link back to New York from the remote
site. The tape was most likely hand-carried to a local affiliate (in
Boston, I'll bet) to feed it back to New York with no time to edit it
(notice that the clip has no apparent edits in it; it's a straight lift
from the interview). Since the playback was coming from out-of-house,
from a facility likely to not have a sync reference such as a cesium or
rubidium frequency standard (nor a method to adjust it to match New
York's timing), the breakup on-air was inevitable. Who knows why they
may have done this, but having worked with time-critical events such as
this, I can tell you that sync lock was the least of their concerns.
;) <br>
Another breakup occurs when Cronkite leads to the Dan Rather story
from Plaquemine, Louisiana. Probably, the same thing happened in that
case as well: The story was a feed from a local station in Louisiana
running without the benefit of its sync matching into New York's. Even
if it originated from a film chain, breakup would be expected. <br>
As for the Geritol commercial, I have no way of being certain, but
this could have been a live commercial coming from a different studio
also not locked to CBS New York. Or I could simply be completely wrong
about any or all of this . . . . ;) <br>
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Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank <br>
NBC Today Show, New York <br>
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