[QuadList] TK42 / 43 at NBC

[Dennis Degan]

		On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Chill315 at aol.com wrote:

 > I found a few pictures in RCA Broadcast News from December 1966 that 
showed the election coverage from studio 8H.  They were using 5 TK-43 
cameras for this coverage.  The story says that two of the cameras were 
then used for the instant news studio as they did not require warm up.  
The others were doing duty elsewhere.
 > So there were RCA TK 42 / 43 cameras in use in NY.

		I say:

	Certainly I believe you Chris, but that contradicts everything I've 
been told about NBC's color cameras.
	The 'instant news studio' (Studio 5N) was used very infrequently.
	I worked with a pair of TK-42/43s (yes, one was a -42 while the other 
was a -43) in 1974 at the first TV station I worked at full-time:  
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/557859754/>
					<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/558126149/>
	And here I am, acting like a fool with a TR-70b:
					<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/515339326/>

			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
	  					NBC Today Show, New York