<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Park Seward dug up some stock footage showing AFRTS Quads in action... but the e-mail from the stock footage house got caught in our spam-catcher.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's the link:</div><div><a href="http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675073628_television-broadcast-station_outdoor-transmission-tower_technical-maintenance_film-reels">http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675073628_television-broadcast-station_outdoor-transmission-tower_technical-maintenance_film-reels</a></div><div><img height="418" width="601" src="cid:6D863040-AA4D-4D47-8EA9-2486F554A8B8"></div><div><br></div><div>Googling "AFRTS Videotape Operations" pulled up this link to a book about AFRTS, "Brass Button Broadcasters:"</div><div style="font-size: 8px; "><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ReTPdXI6ynoC&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=AFRTS+Videotape+operations&source=bl&ots=DeCWOTK-IU&sig=UkZgTPodZEQc2w_VSDYXRzieBc0&hl=en&ei=SK1iTe3lIoGasAPz1bi_CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAQ#v">http://books.google.com/books?id=ReTPdXI6ynoC&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=AFRTS+Videotape+operations&source=bl&ots=DeCWOTK-IU&sig=UkZgTPodZEQc2w_VSDYXRzieBc0&hl=en&ei=SK1iTe3lIoGasAPz1bi_CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAQ#v</a>=onepage&q=AFRTS%20Videotape%20operations&f=false</div><div><br></div><div>You may need to copy and paste the link above. Interesting read about the Kinescope situation... </div><div>Page 96 mentions the Ramstein television facility and that it took over the studios on July 4, 1972... AFN's 29th birthday.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are links to the main pages for AFRTS at 50 years, and </div><div><a href="http://afrts.dodmedia.osd.mil/heritage/page.asp?pg=50-years">http://afrts.dodmedia.osd.mil/heritage/page.asp?pg=50-years</a></div><div><br></div><div>AFRTS at 60:</div><div><a href="http://afrts.dodmedia.osd.mil/heritage/page.asp?pg=60-years">http://afrts.dodmedia.osd.mil/heritage/page.asp?pg=60-years</a></div><div><br></div><div>And AFRTS in 1961:</div><div><a href="http://afrts.dodmedia.osd.mil/heritage/page.asp?pg=afrts-BCGuide">http://afrts.dodmedia.osd.mil/heritage/page.asp?pg=afrts-BCGuide</a></div><div><br></div><div>And here's a recent broadcast systems maint. training Course:</div><div><a href="http://www.dinfos.dma.mil/Dinfosweb/CourseInfo/tpi/BRTSM.pdf?2/17/2011%202:38:23%20PM">http://www.dinfos.dma.mil/Dinfosweb/CourseInfo/tpi/BRTSM.pdf?2/17/2011%202:38:23%20PM</a></div><div><br></div><div>And to bring this back to one of the original threads in this extended family, there might be a copy of the first NFC/AFC Championship game on tape in an AFRTS archive, somewhere. This press release about live coverage in 2010 on AFN says: </div><div><a href="http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/deployed-troops-get-super-bowl-via-live-feed">http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/deployed-troops-get-super-bowl-via-live-feed</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; ">Televised Super Bowl coverage was limited at first to videotape copies of the game distributed after the fact to overseas outlets, unless AFN outlets contracted with commercial networks to get the game live. That all changed in 1982, when AFRTS stood up its satellite network, enabling it to provide live Super Bowl broadcasts to all troops overseas.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div>Maybe... someone will find a copy.</div><div><br></div>Ted<br><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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">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>