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July 10, 2017 11:48:18 AM Chuck Reti via QuadList
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<tr><td colspan='2'><b>Looking for contact to retrieve an old
show</b></td></tr>
<tr><td><b>From</b></td><td>Chuck Reti <cwreti@gmail.com></td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Date</b></td><td>Jul 10, 11:47 AM</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>To</b></td><td>Quad List
<QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com></td></tr>
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Going off-tech-topics to make an inquiry regarding an old show.<div
class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In 1967, a pilot program series
called the Public Broadcasting Laboratory was funded by the Ford
Foundation. The first show in this series was aired live in November of
that year. The shows were the precursor to what later became PBS. They
featured the first nationwide “interconnect” of (participating)
Non-commercial/Educational TV stations.</div><div class="">1967 was a
tumultuous year, with many cities experiencing unrest and
rioting.</div><div class="">July 23 is the 50th anniversary of the
uprising/rebellion/riot here in Detroit. Local media and institutions are
offering many retrospectives.</div><div class="">The first of the PBL
shows, anchored by commentator Edward P. Morgan, discussed this urban
unrest, with live feeds from some of the affected locations.</div><div
class="">In Detroit, WTVS, using the remote truck facilities and crew of
Wayne State University Television, set up at the inner-city Church of the
Black Madonna, which had been in the midst of the event. Its pastor, Rev.
Cleage, was known as a “firebrand” who was passionate in his criticisms of
the conditions that led to what happened in Detroit.</div><div class="">I
was (a very new hire) on the WSU-TV engineering staff that did this remote,
and remember this experience well. As some verbal fireworks ensued among
some of the show's participants, the congregation in the church was
obviously not too pleased that their pastor was, at times, being
disrespected, and for a brief time, we, a bunch of white guys in the
upstairs choir room, were honestly getting a little worried (however all
was quite well in the end).</div><div class="">One technical aspect of this
that I do remember was that the NOC was sending all feed points an audio
tone on one of the telco lines, to use as a kind of gunlock
clock.</div><div class="">The tone (don’t remember the freq, could have
been 3150) fed a magic box they provided that multiplied it up to 31.5kHz.
Our monochrome sync gen had a 31.5 input for this purpose, so we would be
in time with everyone else. During pre-feed there were also some tweaks to
this, maybe for H-phasing. Our outgoing feed was telco microwave (thanks to
Michigan Bell).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have
brought up this show to the local PBS station, WTVS, where I work
part-time, that it might be a valuable, interesting element to include in
any forthcoming programs tied to the Detroit anniversary, and offered to
help research in finding if it’s available I discovered that some years
ago, PBS donated the PBL show recordings to the Library of Congress, and
that sometime in 2016, the LOC did an auditorium “clip show” presentation
of selects from the PBL series. So, I am looking to those on this list for
assistance to find out whom to contact at LOC to accomplish this, if it’s
at all doable.</div><div class="">Comments on the list might be
interesting, but you may email me any specifics off-list at <a
href="mailto:cwreti@gmail.com" class="">cwreti@gmail.com</a></div><div
class="">Thanks for your time.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div
class="">Chuck Reti</div><div class="">Detroit MI</div><div
class="">WV8A</div></blockquote>
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