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He picked the 3 that he liked best, wrote down all the pertinent serial
numbers and details and thanked me for my time!!
Don Murray
Retired from 40 years in Miami Television
35+years at WTVJ NBC O&O
I worked at WGN for several years and they had some AVR-3s, used mostly for production.<br>
They used VR-2000Bs for direct playback to air, along with 3 TCR-100s. The AVRs usually<br>
worked well, and made great pictures. They would use the quick roll feature during newscasts.<br>
They would build a dub real and then use the five event editor to put a cue before each<br>
story on the reel so they could randomly search to them quickly. Every once in a while<br>
when given the button push to go to the next cut, or whatever, the AVR would go nuts and <br>
spin the reels counter to each other and throw tape all the way to the ceiling. It was <br>
a problem neither they nor Ampex ever solved. That particular AVR was referred to by the<br>
operators as "Killer."<br>
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Bob Bruner<br>
WTTW/Chicago
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