[QuadList] Merry Christmas, and to all, a warm, dry night!

[Greg Schmitz]

It's cold here too 7 F. and still dropping, but the heat is on.  I'm 
thinking that my New Years resolution should be that I will get our 
TR-70 tweaked (it's almost ready to go), and learn how to run it.  Warm 
wishes to you all.

--greg schmitz

Alaska Moving Image and Preservation
Anchorage, Alaska
www.amipa.org


WVGO wrote:
> It's cold outside, but very warm and dry in the house tonight in 
> Virginia.
> I've just finished digitizing a 45 min quad tape from Puerto Rico 
> recorded in '74, here on this Christmas Eve, and as the basement 
> slowly cools down while all those BTUs thrown off by the TR-70 
> dissipate into the cold night air.....no doubt doing my part for 
> "global warming".
> I'll take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and 
> the best possible New Year!
> Guy
> www.GuySpiller.com
>
>
>
> Ted Langdell wrote:
>> Just a short note to wish all of you well and hope that you are warm, 
>> dry and able to be with Family and Friends tonight and tomorrow.
>>
>> I suspect some of the holiday TV fare may cause visions of quad 
>> machines to dance in your heads as you remember recording studio 
>> productions or network line feeds of various programs.
>>
>> Hope those are happy memories!
>>
>> Some of you may be working. Drive safely and enjoy the time you /can/ 
>> spend with loved ones.
>>
>> One of those working is our newest member, Dennis Degan, 
>> "Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank, NBC Today Show, New York."
>>
>> Dennis is editing the Midnight Mass from the Vatican that will air in 
>> place of the Tonight Show on most NBC stations at 11:35 tonight.
>> The Mass is being recorded from a 16:9 SD Italian TV feed. Dennis 
>> hopes he can convince the network to broadcast it in 16:9.  It's 
>> Dennis' fifth year cutting the Special.
>>
>> He's a 35 year+ vet of the business, beginning with radio and then 
>> television and Quads in Georgia, South Carolina, and then a vacation 
>> relief tour maintaining Quads at NBC, NYC in 1978 that extended into 
>> 1979.  He worked at Reeves/Teletape after that, and Quad recorded a 
>> lot of the Sesame Street shows you may have seen in its early years. 
>>  His other stops have included Unitel and editing Sally Jessy 
>> Raphael's show. After moving to Penn Studios when the "Sally" show 
>> was edited there, he freelanced and then returned to NBC in 2003 as 
>> an editor with Today cutting "Day of Air" material.
>>
>> Dennis has quite a collection of Quad-centric photos on Flickr:
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/
>>
>> You can see Quads and Quad Cart machines at WTCG, Atlanta, KWY, 
>> Philadelphia, WSPA, WSM-TV Nashville, WRET-TV, Charlotte, WIS-TV, 
>> Columbia, SC, WBRC-TV, Birmingham, CBS Broadcast Center in NYC in 
>> 1978, and NBC 1976-79.
>> Thanks, Dennis for making these available.  Hope your commute to work 
>> and home is uneventful, and your Christmas Day is joyful.
>>
>> From rainy Northern California (where our friends in the foothills 
>> east of me will have a White Christmas.)
>>
>> Ted
>>
>> Should you be passing through Marysville, You're welcome to join 
>> QuadVTG member Tim Stoffel and I this evening. We're dining before 
>> singing carols at 11:30 and at Midnight Mass.
>>
>> Ted Langdell
>> flashscan8.us <http://www.%20flashscan8.us>
>> 209 East 12th Street
>> Marysville, CA 95901
>> Main:  (530) 741-1212
>> Cell:  (530) 301-2931
>>
>> Secretary for the QuadVideotapeGroup.com 
>> <http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/>: Preserving Tape, Equipment and 
>> the Knowledge to use them, in conjunction with the Library of Congress
>> ted at quadvideotapegroup.com <mailto:ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>
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