[QuadList] Photos from WBBH-TV

[Scott Thomas]

I have a couple of photo albums that are slides from WBBH-TV in Fort Myers, FL.
In the late 1990's, my boss Bob Jones gave me a couple of boxes of slides that he took when he worked at the station in the late `70's and early `80's.

There are pics of the facility, equipment and some parties. I started working at the station in September 1988, and some of that equipment was still there. I only had hands-on with the TCR-100 and the GVG-1600. The station, up until late 1988, did not have an electronic still store. For many years they used the TCR during the newscast as an graphic playback system. We recorded the over-the-shoulder graphics, pre quarter-screen compressed onto carts. The director then played them back live through a Harris 630 Frame Sync. The TR-60 was gone and the two TR-70's (A models I believe) were still there, but I had no reason to touch them. The film chain was banished to a room that later became the mailroom. The Norelco PC-70 cameras were donated to my high school years before where I put together camera 2 and had it operational for a short while. They were replaced by Philips LDK-6 models that I used. In early 1989 we took delivery of a GVG-300 with integrated Kaleidoscope. I still miss the K-Scope, it was an amazing machine.

Here are the links:

http://homepage.mac.com/scottgfx/PhotoAlbum16.html

http://homepage.mac.com/scottgfx/PhotoAlbum17.html

The building had been completely renovated and added onto when I got there. The studio is still the same today when it was built in 1968, a small shoebox sized affair.

Hope you all enjoy, and let me know if you see someone you know.

Scott Thomas
Art Director
WINK-TV
Fort Myers, FL