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

[WVGO]

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
>
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> conjunction with the Library of Congress
> ted at quadvideotapegroup.com <mailto:ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>
>
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