[QuadList] Vintage WSAZ-TV video 1985

[Dennis Degan]

		On Apr 15, 2010, at 2:16 PM, I wrote:

> In one of Letterman's earliest "Late Night" shows from Studio 6A, he  
> had the crew gather as many cameras as he could get into the one  
> studio.  I believe the count was 14 cameras and as I recall, every  
> one of them was a TK-44.  Must have been around 1982 or 83.

		On Apr 16, 2010, at 12:15 AM, Ted Langdell wrote:

 > Do you know how many of them were connected and available to the 6A  
switcher?

		I reply:

	I remember from the show that they called them out as they switched  
between them . . . all 14.  I'm not certain how they pulled this off.   
The coordination to get that many cameras available at the same time  
must have been quite a feat.  As I recall every one of them was  
operable and shown on the air through the 6A switcher.  It must have  
taken a few days just to get everything hooked up and running.  The  
studio had normally 5 cameras of its own (I'm not sure if that was  
true back when this stunt was done or not).  So if that was true at  
the time, they'd need to add 9 more cameras.  Studio 8H normally has 8  
cameras in operation (that studio has CCUs for 12), so most could have  
come from there.  Studio 8G might also have 'donated' some cameras as  
that studio may have also been down at the time.  I'm guessing that  
the CCU's were NOT moved; they would have been remote-operated from  
whatever studio they were in.  That would mean long TV-81 cable runs  
from floor to floor for the camera heads plus lots of time needed to  
sync up the cameras into Studio 6A.

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