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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Verdana">Greetings,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="verdana">Allow me to introduce myself: My name is Steve Thomas. I am currently the Senior Editor and a Technical Director at WWJ-TV (CBS) and WKBD-TV (CW50) in Detroit, Michigan. I administer three Avid Media Composer
Adrenaline editing systems tied to a Unity LANshareEX media storage system. I also TD for studio productions and in Master Control.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="verdana">My career in television began in 1973 working as a high school co-op student in our school district's black-and-white studio, recording and playing back educational programs on Ampex 1" helical-scan VTRs before there
was a Type A, B or C. I learned how to run camera, audio, playback 16mm film and video tape, floor manage and switch on a mechanical Dynair switcher. We distributed programs to all the schools from our studio via analog coaxial cable.
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="verdana">I attended college at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, graduating in 1978 with a B.A. in Communication Arts and lots of experience in our college TV studio. We started recording programs on 3/4" U-Matic
and 1" IVC VTRs, but around 1975, our engineer Daniel Brown took a few of us "Audio-Visual" students to a military surplus store in Lansing, Michigan. We found two used Ampex VR-1000B's and lots of spare parts and hauled them back to our studio.
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="verdana">About a year later, after cannibalizing one machine to get the other working, replacing lots of tubes, wiring and transformers, installing an air compressor and getting some spare heads from Merlin Engineering, we
could actually record, playback and even edit in monochrome on 2" tape. (Yes, one machine had Intersync and EDITEC.) I still have the "Preliminary Instruction Manual" for the 1000B on the shelf at home.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="verdana">After I graduated in 1978, I worked at GTN (a production house) first as an equipment rental manager and later as an apprentice editor and then a full online editor. We used CMX340 editors and Ampex AVR-2Bs by the
time I left there in 1984. I still remember outputting an Edit Decision List on paper punch tape before we had floppy disks.
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="verdana">I spent about three years at WXYZ-TV (ABC) in Detroit, mostly editing on Convergence editors and 3/4" and 1" Type C VTRs for an afternoon magazine-style show. I also worked for two years at another local production
house on the ISC (later GVG) Super Edit system with 1" and Betacam VTRs editing industrial training videos and commercials before coming back to broadcasting at WKBD in 1989. I was the first "production" editor at the station, meaning I worked on commercials,
station promos, PSAs, long-form programs, special projects and pre-production for our local news, but didn't have to cut any daily news stories.
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="verdana">I've always been interested in television history and have done quite a bit of research into the production of the old network musical specials like "Cinderella" for CBS and "Peter Pan" and "An Evening with Fred
Astaire" for NBC. Reading the messages on this list for the past few months has been very interesting. If I can be of service to anyone, please let me know.</font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">SENIOR EDITOR and TECHNICAL DIRECTOR</span></font><font color="black" size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">phone:
</span></font><font color="maroon" size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: maroon; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">248.351.7905</span></font><font color="black" size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"></span></font></p>
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<font color="blue" size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><a href="mailto:sdthomas@cbs.com">sdthomas@cbs.com</a></span></font></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="maroon" size="2" face="ae"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ae; COLOR: maroon; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">"This user thinks that
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">too</span></b> many people have no idea how <b>
<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">to</span></b> use words that they should have learned in grade
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">two</span></b>."</span></font><font color="black" size="1" face="Verdana"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"></span></font></p>
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