[QuadList] Question about NBC color TZ delay prior to Quad

[C. Park Seward]

And I remember getting a color kine in the early 80s from a company in  
Nashville. They shot film off a monitor so the result was not as good  
as later Image Transform stuff.

Best,
Park

C. Park Seward
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On Oct 28, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Dennis Degan wrote:

>
> 		On Oct 26, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:
>
> > Color kinescopes could also be made using color film, but I don't  
> have any handy info about what NBC did as a regular practice.
>
> 		I offer:
>
> 	Ted, I don't know what NBC did on the West Coast before videotape  
> (my guess is that they probably had a couple of color kine recording  
> systems to handle the fewer number of color programs that warranted  
> color time zone delay).  I think it should be noted that NBC Burbank  
> was built as a color facility, the first such purpose-built in the  
> company and was built before videotape of any kind was available.
> 	There are two scenarios of programming at the time that involved  
> delayed broadcasts: live West Coast-originated programs, and live  
> East Coast-originated programs.  The East Coast-originated programs  
> were possibly delayed in Burbank through color kine recordings or  
> more likely, B&W kines, thereby giving up the color in the  
> programs.  The West Coast-originated programs could have been  
> performed twice; once for the East and 3 hours later for the West.   
> This was very common and done frequently for radio productions long  
> before TV came along.	In 1978, I saw in service the last of NBC's  
> kine recording systems near the videotape maintenance shop where I  
> worked in New York.  There were 3 setups in a room, each equipped  
> with Sony Trinitron monitors.  I was told that these systems were  
> used to make films for air in Guam on a 1-week's delay.  I'm sorry I  
> never took any pictures of it.
>
> 			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> 	  					NBC Today Show, New York
>
>
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