<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>On Feb 5, 2011, at 5:54 PM, Dennis Degan wrote:</div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Wow, that's great. It's been known for some time that recordings of SB I were not saved by the networks (this was the only SB game aired on TWO networks at the same time).<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Dennis Degan,</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>This is likely to be the CBS version. </div><div><br></div><div>WDAU-TV (22) Scranton was the CBS affiliate in the market at the time.</div><div><br></div><div>May have been recorded on 2nd generation Ampex VR-1200 gear:</div><div><a href="http://www.carlabraham.com/wdau.htm">http://www.carlabraham.com/wdau.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>Scroll down to the photo with the Ampex Quad on the left.</div><div><a href="http://www.carlabraham.com/Joe%2520Jones%2520Web.jpg">Joe Jones Web.jpg</a></div><div><a href="http://www.carlabraham.com/Joe%20Jones%20Web.jpg">http://www.carlabraham.com/Joe%20Jones%20Web.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>Wonder if the employee who recorded the tape is pictured... either at the recorder or the photo to the right.</div><div><br></div><div>The network feed recorded may actually have been an off-air feed of WCBS-TV, NYC:</div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYOU">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYOU</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Despite its link with one of Northeast <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Pennsylvania</a>'s most prestigious broadcasters (the AM station had been founded in 1925), WGBI-TV operated on a tight budget. For example, the Megargees (station owners) found <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Telephone_%26_Telegraph" title="American Telephone & Telegraph" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">AT&T</a>'s rates for a dedicated network feed line too high for their liking. This forced station engineers to switch to and from the signal of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCBS-TV" title="WCBS-TV" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">WCBS-TV</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">New York City</a> whenever CBS programming was on-the-air. As a result, picture quality for network programming left much to be desired. The switchover was a delicate process requiring tight coordination between engineers stationed around the clock at the transmitter site and directors at the studios since no one there could see the WCBS feed.</div><div style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">WGBI went into a limited partnership with the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Bulletin" title="Philadelphia Bulletin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Philadelphia Bulletin</a></i> in 1958 and was renamed <b>WDAU-TV</b> after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCAU-TV" title="WCAU-TV" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">WCAU-TV</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Philadelphia</a>, which was also owned by the newspaper. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Federal Communications Commission</a> (FCC) ruled that there was so much signal overlap between the two stations that they were effectively a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duopoly_(broadcasting)" title="Duopoly (broadcasting)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">duopoly</a>. Its Grade B signal reaches the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehigh_Valley" title="Lehigh Valley" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Lehigh Valley</a>, which is part of the Philadelphia market. The <i>Bulletin</i> opted to retain WDAU-TV, and sold WCAU-TV to CBS. Even with new ownership, WDAU continued to rebroadcast WCBS's signal for network programming until the 1970s, when complaints about the poor quality of color network programming led it to buy a network feed.</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">The station also had a bat invade the newscast in 1980:</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqc5587f6UY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqc5587f6UY</a></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What cameras are in use?</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ted</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Secretary</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Skype: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>TedLangdell</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">e-mail:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></font></div></div></div></div> </div><br></body></html>