<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Whoops...<div><br></div><div>Eyes not focused well. Brain not recognizing visual input. That's what I get for staying up until 4am and getting up at 8.</div><div><br></div><div>The station signed on as WCTU-TV, and was Charlotte's first Indy, July 9, 1967. I gather WHKY, 14, Hickory, NC hit "ON" Feb. 14, 1968? </div><div><br></div><div>With a TRT-1B (if I recall correctly) that you used to run and that David Crosthwait now has in Burbank? David's posted pix here of that move.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 16, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Don Norwood wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi Ted:</div><div> </div><div>You probably know this, but that station was purchased in about '70 by Ted Turner who renamed it WRET (his initials are RET). Over the years, I knew a number of the folks that worked there, and although I visited while Dennis worked there, I never met him.</div><div> </div><div>The Ampex gear that they had, at least in the early 70's, was leased from Ampex. The machines were VR-1200's....don't think they ever had a VR-2000.</div><div> </div><div>Don </div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); background-position: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="ted@quadvideotapegroup.com" href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">Ted Langdell</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com" href="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com">Quad List</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, September 16, 2010 6:29 PM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[QuadList] Fun with a PCP-90 and AVR-2 at WRET-TV,Charlotte/Possible TR-70C motor service source</div><div><br></div><div><div>Just had an enjoyable and lengthy chat on the phone with new member Larry Odham in the Knoxville, TN area.</div><div><br></div><div>During a discussion of his need for a TR-70C capstan motor or a replacement for the glass tachometer disc on the back I googled "RCA TR-70C."</div><div><br></div><div>This 1977 Video Tour of independent station WRET-TV, 36, Charlotte popped up, but there's not a 70 to be seen here. Ampex is, though.</div><div><br></div><div>And so is QuadList member Dennis Degan, who's now an editor for the Today Show at NBC, NY. He's the person you see threading up the VR-2000 in the first segment. Dennis posted the clips to his YouTube channel.</div><div><br></div><div>Advisory:<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Warning Will Robinson!) </i>There are some (bleep) words not bleeped in the videos, so be prepare to use your fingers to hit "Mute" quickly. Oh, and blink to avoid the index finger near the head of the first segment.</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0e774a" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: small; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0e774a" size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 14px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAp1Q7BTUxQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAp1Q7BTUxQ</a> Segment 1</span></font></div><div style="font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0e774a" size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 14px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0e774a" size="4" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 14px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAp1Q7BTUxQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JAWv7SLLdo</a> Segment 2</span></font></div><div><br></div><div>WRET-TV is now Belo's WCNC, Charlotte, the NBC affiliate. You're not likely to see something like this repeated there.</div><div><br></div><div>We did find something potentially useful: </div><div><br></div><div>Possible TR-70C Capstan Motor service:</div><div><a href="http://www.servorep.com/PMIKollmorgenPage.html">http://www.servorep.com/PMIKollmorgenPage.html</a></div><div><br></div></div><div>Hope this wakes you up in the middle of a drowsy Thursday afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font color="#0018ea" size="3" face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div></span></div><br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><hr><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>_______________________________________________<br>Please trim posts to relevant info when replying!<br>Send QuadList list posts to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com">QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com</a><br>Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br><a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com">http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com</a></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>Please trim posts to relevant info when replying!<br>Send QuadList list posts to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com">QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com</a><br>Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br><a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com">http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>