<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><head></head><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">A number of the “Allenized” machines were sold by Visual Electronics. Some customers were: Corinthian Broadcasting (then a subsidiary of Dun and Bradstreet,) NBC New York for their time delay, and a number of educational and religious broadcasters.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i>(TL notes that in 1977, an Allenized VR-1000 was still in use at KXTV, 10, Sacramento, often recording the first feed of CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite for "cherry-picking" stories, and other feed duties.)</i></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; text-transform: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; "></span></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The Visual/Allen machine at KXTV was from a purchase made by George Jacobs, Director of Engineering for the Corinthian stations. KOTV Tulsa was another. The president of Visual Electronics Jim Tharpe and George were good friend from their past DuMont days.</div></div></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">The next step by Visual was to build their own VTR. Tharpe had contacts in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region> with Fernseh who had a monochrome VTR with their own air bearing heads. </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b>(Bosch Fernseh BM-20 Monochrome Tube Type Quadrupled VTR--</b></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Deutsches Fernsehmuseum Wiesbaden website)</b></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "></div></body></html>