<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Reposting for members who were re-subscribed after the original post. Apologies for double-post if you remained subscribed.<div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 29, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; "><font style="line-height: 1.22em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Yesterday, Saturday, April 28, 2012 marked</font></span></font></font><font style="line-height: 1.22em; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.22em; "> the 54th anniversary of the dedication of Videotape Central at NBC Burbank. The tape facility inside 3000 West Alameda (at Olive Ave.) cost $1.5 million in 1957-58 dollars.</font></span></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; font-family: Helvetica; ">NBC began time-zone delay from the Burbank tape facility when Daylight Savings Time kicked in. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; "><font style="line-height: 1.22em; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.22em; ">The facility included one RCA Color Video Tape Recorder and eight Ampex black-and-white machines that could record color using with RCA Labs hetrodyne electronics.</font></span></font></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; font-family: Helvetica; ">Soon, three more RCA Broadcast Color Recorders were at work.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; "><font style="line-height: 1.22em; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Pre-recording programs in Burbank happened later, among them the Fred Astaire specials, and other programs recorded initially with the RCA Labs color process.</font></span></font></font></p><div>
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