[QuadList] NBC Control System

[Phillip G. Shaw]

[quote]You may have more detailed documentation, but I have several RCA 
white papers describing many aspects of NBC systems from back in the 1970's. 
Here are links to scans of the first 3 pages of one of the white
papers. This one is named "NBC Switching Central".  Phillip, if you  don't 
have this white paper and you'd like to, I've scanned all 10 pages of it and 
can either send them to you or link you to the remaining pages once they are 
uploaded to Flickr.
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/3403168581/>

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Dennis Degan,

I will do you one better (only kidding). Thanks for the White paper; page 1 
has the picture of a very young person that I know well. Dick Edmondson. 
Dick & I became good friends when I went into management and he became my 
most important source for knowledge. The original system evolved over the 
Years but Dick was also a NBC Software consultant for other projects up into 
the 90's.  He was living in South Jersey, Medford Lakes.  If he is still on 
the planet he would most likely love to talk about the NBC system.



I was never in Burbank...  my sources John Fishettte (SP) VP of Operations 
&  Steve Orland, aka "Flat line" when he messed with SC. They had the same 
channel Packages and Automation as NY. I think Bob Butler (NY Labs) also 
updated the Burbank Sky path at the same time as NY. That team was under 
Jack Weir..



The Panel is the Machine Control, the 10 sync sources was before my time. 
When you have News, Sports & entertainment plus WNBC & Network it becomes 
necessary for multiple timing rings. The ZSD (1 line delay) installation 
made the Control Room daisy chains (re-entry) simpler. The ZSD was a 
modified NEC FS18 Frame sync. It was not until 1995 that we were able to 
replace those with a Leitch (2 line Delay)



Regards,