<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I previously said:<br><div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; ">> Not to throw cold water on it Wayne, but I don't know of a single TV station that DIDN'T run their cart machines live to air. Only networks would do this (with the notable exception of NBC). At the network level, where more money is at stake, reliability is of much higher priority than operator convenience. Not only would CBS and ABC cut their commercials into the program masters, they would run two copies of the commercial-inserted program on the air simultaneously to enable quick switching in case of a failure of the on-air tape. Again, no local TV station I'm aware of did this.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>On Aug 24, 2012, at 11:25 AM, <a href="mailto:kylebook@aol.com">kylebook@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; ">> Not sure if this was standard operating procedure at other local stations carrying live sports events, but during my time at WHCT in Hartford, CT, when they carried a live Hartford Whalers hockey telecast, they did not use their spot playback system (The LaKart 3/4" system), but instead ran the spots from compilation reels. The reason behind this, similar to the network philosophy, was that these were high revenue generating commercials, where operational failure & "make goods" were just not option.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I respond:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I'm not saying that local stations didn't EVER use a Primary/Backup procedure or produce compilation tapes for air. I should have included "as their normal operating procedure" in my comment. I believe that at that time, it was standard operating procedure to only use one cart machine directly on-air at most TV stations. Most stations only had one cart machine (all the stations I worked at that had cart machines each had only one). The stations that had more than one were still not known to have used a pair of them as Primary/Backup like a network would have done. Even so, they all used them directly to air, except in those instances as Kyle described.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>One of the stations I worked at originated a 10-station regional basketball network. During the game, they aired their local commercials from the cart machine and the basketball network commercials ran from a single compilation quad tape (not a pair of Primary/Backup machines). The station only had one ACR-25 and two Ampex VR-1200's.</span></div></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; 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; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> NBC Today Show, New York</div></div><div><br></div></div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>