<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>On Aug 7, 2016, at 6:31 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>> I took some film down to KTVU, channel 2, and Oakland from Sacramento and when I arrived at the reception desk, one of the things that the receptionist was doing was logging commercials. Using AN EIAJ deck.</div><div>> If I recall correctly the playback at normal speed on the deck he was using was of the tape that had been recorded at a slower speed on a specialized Derek in order to pack more airtime on a one-hour reel of of tape.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I add:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>When I first worked at NBC-NY in 1978, one of my overnight engineering duties was to change the on-air logging recorders’ tapes. These were two EIAJ decks that ran VERY slowly, and each recorded 24 hours of programming on a single (normally 1-hour) tape with time & date burned in. The recordings were B/W and looked a lot like surveillance video with the burned in time & date. They were to be changed at 2am or so in order to not miss any vital commercial verifications. In those days, WNBC signed off after the Tomorrow Show and maybe a 5-minute voice-over news headline report. The Network was of course dark at that time. The two decks recorded local WNBC-TV and the outgoing network feed, respectively.</div></div><div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><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: -webkit-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; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> NBC Today Show, New York<br><br></div></span></span>
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