<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 8/6/2009 6:32:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time, bill.spencer@northstarstudios.tv writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">It may be of little help, but attached is a pix of old #6 at PBS in<BR>
1973. As you can see we had the Conrac mono video monitors. The<BR>
operator is my old buddy Frank DiCamillo. That is also him at our<BR>
Recortec cleaner where every piece of stock was cleaned and checked<BR>
prior to recording dubs for the bicycle syndication. We sent a lot of<BR>
tapes to Pago Pago, American Samoa!<BR>
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There is also a pix of the old transmission position where Paul Dalton<BR>
is watching something! The row of AVR-1s is visible in the background.<BR>
<BR>
Bill Spencer<BR>
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Bill,<BR>
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Yes, it does look like a basement operation. I can see the flood waters now (except with VPR 2's!). Great picture.<BR>
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The story about shipping 2" tapes reminds me of my time at NBC Burbank, before the C-band service to Hawaii and Alaska. All zone delay recordings were shipped to KHON first, then Alaska. The tapes then came back to Burbank. Hawaii was on a one-week delay, Alaska two weeks. I believe this was all done by air freight. <BR>
This stopped around the mid 1980s or slightly earlier.<BR>
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David<BR>
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