[QuadList] TCR-100

[kylebook at aol.com]

Ironically, the TCR-100 at WGGB in Springfield, MA was ALSO was nicknamed "Fred" by the ops & engineering staff.   Must have been a regional thing...  ;-)

They only had one, though, which made life interesting for us tape ops.  For news broadcasts (the station's ad bread & butter), we simultaneously rolled "comp" reels on another TR-70 with all the spots, usually made from the TCR during network time earlier in the evenings & afternoons.  Otherwise, if "Fred" took a siesta, the backup was PSAs on 8mm projectors, the wrath of the traffic & sales departments, and heavily handwritten & Post-it note copies in the daily log.   

- Kyle Bookholz








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From: Randy Hall <listk7age at gmail.com>
To: garyada at ix.netcom.com; Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
Sent: Wed, Feb 3, 2010 9:53 am
Subject: Re: [QuadList] TCR-100


As a GVG field engineer I visited a station in New Bedford Mass to
ork on their 1600s.
They had two tractors, they each had a Micky mouse name badge, FRED and ALFRED.
;-)
Randy
7AGE
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