[QuadList] AVR-3

Sun Jul 26 16:27:03 CDT 2009

Our AVR-3's rarely hit air directly as the great majority  of the
2 inch stuff went to the ACR's.  It had nothing to do  with the
dependability of the 3's, but just the fact that we did have the 
production ACR available for all news shows.  I guess I  should mention 
that the TD's loved the roll-take that the ACR provided  them!!

As far as dumping the edited 3/4 stuff to  2 inch, that would have 
created a real logjam, since so  many of the edited pieces arrived as 
the TD was rolling the  machine!!  ;-)

We handled our 3/4 stuff directly to air  from four 2850's, each 
with a dedicated remote controller and CVS  TBC...  Those machines 
were very dependable, and the CVS TBC's were excellent at  handling 
even the worst field tapes.

It was fun!!

Don Murray
W4WJ
Retired from 40 years in Miami Television
35+ years at WTVJ  NBC O&O

In a message dated 7/25/2009 11:59:57 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
rabruner at aol.com writes:

WGN was  doing local eng at the time, and  they didn't feel comfortable 
putting U-matic directly to air from the  pro-sumer machines being used in the 
industry at that time like 2850s and  2850As.  They didn't trust the BVU-200 
series either.  So they  dubbed everything to a two inch reel to reel and 
played it from the AVR for  faster lock up.  After Killer threw tape at the 
ceiling one time too many  they bought 4 of the newly minted BVU-800s and 
played those to air using TBC  2000s.  During my career there, my job was 
mostly associate with the  remote trucks covering Cubs baseball and other sports. 
 I rarely darkened  the studio doors for an update on operational niceties 
like the  adventures of Killer.  I only got to see him do his thing twice 
when  covering a news shift where someone had called in sick. It was something 
to  see. Those machines had monstrous reel motors and when they would spool 
up in  opposite directions, they could launch a good deal of tape before 
anyone could  intervene

Bob Bruner
W9TAJ
WTTW/Chicago 

>>Subject: Re: [QuadList] AVR-3s Hi Bob...

 Very interesting...

 The AVR 3's were in the production area.  All network  news stories were 
 put across to the production ACR-25 for  playout.  Film stories remained on
 A-B reels...

 In the air area, an AVR-1 two AVR2's and the second  ACR-25 handled
 those duties.  Production VTR's could be called across to  air if needed. 

 During the AVR-3 ramp up with the field engineers, I did see  some two
 inch tape get "snapped" in half when one of the 3's would do a  
 fast-forward and rewind simultaneously!!!  ;-)   Fun stuff!!  That problem 
was 
 solved!!

 DonM

   I worked at WGN for several years and they had some AVR-3s, used mostly 
 for production.
   Every 
 once in a while
  when given the button push to go to the next cut, or whatever, the AVR 
 would go nuts and 
  spin the reels counter to each other and throw tape all the way to the 
 ceiling. It was 
  a problem neither they nor Ampex ever solved. That particular AVR was 
 referred to by the
  operators as "Killer."

  Bob Bruner
  WTTW/Chicago

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