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<DIV><FONT size=4>Our AVR-3's rarely hit air directly as the great majority
of the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>2 inch stuff went to the ACR's. It had nothing to do
with the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>dependability of the 3's, but just the fact that we did have
</FONT><FONT size=4>the </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>production ACR available for all news shows. I guess I
should mention </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>that the TD's loved the roll-take that the ACR provided
them!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>As far as dumping the edited </FONT><FONT size=4>3/4 stuff to
2 inch, that would have </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>created a real logjam, </FONT><FONT size=4>since so
many of the edited pieces arrived</FONT> <FONT size=4>as </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>the TD was rolling </FONT><FONT size=4>the
machine!! ;-)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>We handled our 3/4 stuff directly to air
from four</FONT><FONT size=4> 2850's, each </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>with a dedicated remote controller </FONT><FONT size=4>and CVS
TBC... Those machines </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>were very dependable, and the CVS TBC's were excellent at
handling </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>even the </FONT><FONT size=4>worst field tapes.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>It was fun!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Don Murray</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>W4WJ</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Retired from 40 years in Miami Television</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>35+ years at WTVJ NBC O&O</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 7/25/2009 11:59:57 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
rabruner@aol.com writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>WGN was
doing local eng <FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">at the time, and
they didn't feel comfortable putting U-matic directly to air from the
pro-sumer machines being used in the industry at that time like 2850s and
2850As. They didn't trust the BVU-200 series either. So they
dubbed everything to a two inch reel to reel and played it from the AVR for
faster lock up. After Killer threw tape at the ceiling one time too many
they bought 4 of the newly minted BVU-800s and played those to air using TBC
2000s. During my career there, my job was mostly associate with the
remote trucks covering Cubs baseball and other sports. I rarely darkened
the studio doors for an update on operational niceties like the
adventures of Killer. I only got to see him do his thing twice when
covering a news shift where someone had called in sick. It was something to
see. Those machines had monstrous reel motors and when they would spool up in
opposite directions, they could launch a good deal of tape before anyone could
intervene<BR><BR>Bob Bruner<BR>W9TAJ<BR>WTTW/Chicago <BR><BR></FONT>
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Hi Bob...
Very interesting...</FONT>
The AVR 3's were in the production area. All network news stories were
put across to the production ACR-25 for playout. Film stories remained on
A-B reels...
In the air area, an AVR-1 two AVR2's and the second ACR-25 handled
those duties. Production VTR's could be called across to air if needed.
During the AVR-3 ramp up with the field engineers, I did see some two
inch tape get "snapped" in half when one of the 3's would do a
fast-forward and rewind simultaneously!!! ;-) Fun stuff!! That problem was
solved!!
DonM
I worked at WGN for several years and they had some AVR-3s, used mostly
for production.
Every
once in a while
when given the button push to go to the next cut, or whatever, the AVR
would go nuts and
spin the reels counter to each other and throw tape all the way to the
ceiling. It was
a problem neither they nor Ampex ever solved. That particular AVR was
referred to by the
operators as "Killer."
Bob Bruner
WTTW/Chicago
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