[QuadList] TCR-100

[Scott Thomas]

David, I hope you post that video somewhere.

When I started at WBBH-TV in September of 1988, I had to watch their in-house produced video on how to operate the TCR-100. I don't have a copy, but I remember it being rather violent. There was a warning that if you messed with the TCR while the Master Control operator was using it for playback, you would be shot dead. The video literally had this man...

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Wilbur Wein, wielding a gun and shooting a PA dead. All in fun though.

That TR-60 was long gone when I was there. They had only the TCR and two TR-70s (A I believe).
>From the pics I have, I think they had the TR-60 as the signal chassis for the TCR for a time, as you can see the transport is butted up next to the TCR.

Now, one question I have: The TCR at WBBH had those thumbwheels that you would turn to select the cart bay and duration I believe (And perhaps other things). I visited WFLA in the late 1980's with my brother and they had two TCRs. I remember at least one of them had some sort of electroluminescent display and a keypad. How did that thing work? Was there some sort of digital code put on the tape's cue track? I assume there was some way to integrate the TCR into a computer traffic system?

One final note: When WBBH got rid of their TCR-100, a guy in a truck came by and just pulled the parts he wanted off the machine. He told me that they needed the parts because there were a lot of TCRs in Mexico. I asked for the RCA badge and was not allowed to take it. Instead, I have the serial number badge... somewhere. I also had some part of the signal system... a small black panel with a bunch of BNC passthroughs. I was going to do *something* with it.

Oh well, back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Scott Thomas

On Feb 2, 2010, at 7:33 PM, David C. Crosthwait wrote:

> Just found my Hi8 recording of the TCR 100 in action, on-air, in Green Bay WI, 7-18-1996. Hard to believe it was it was still on-air at that time, making revenue for the station between jam ups.
> 
> David Crosthwait
> www.dcvideo.com
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