[QuadList] Happy Anniversary--CBS Uses Quad to Time Zone Delay Douglas Edwards' Evening Newscast

[David Crosthwait]

The same sort of 7 second delay was implemented by NBC Burbank using  
two RCA TR 70B's which I saw in use on a live (to the East) George  
Schlatter program. This was in 1979-80.

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On Nov 30, 2010, at 12:45 PM, george keller wrote:

> Hey Ted,
>
> How far did they have to space the machines to get a 3 hour  
> delay??? Just kidding of course, but we did a 7 second delay at CBS  
> years ago with two 2000's and some rollers and springs and the  
> machines were almost in place but we had to adjust them with a  
> "Johnson Bar".  I should have taken a foto.
>
> Later on we used a Betacart with someone's off the wall software to  
> provide the 2 and 3 hour delays for the network.  I think Sony  
> raised Hell about using the software, but something was worked out  
> between them and CBS, I only heard about that through scuttlebut.
>
> George Keller
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Langdell <ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>
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> Cc: oldvtrs <oldvtrs at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tue, Nov 30, 2010 2:04 pm
> Subject: [QuadList] Happy Anniversary--CBS Uses Quad to Time Zone  
> Delay Douglas Edwards' Evening Newscast
>
> Happy 55th Anniversary of the first network use of Quad in Time  
> Zone Delay... which is regarded as Quad's first use in an broadcast  
> setting.
>
> Here's the famous picture of CBS Engineer John Radis bending over a  
> transport
> in the CBS Television City tape room on Beverly Blvd. in Hollywood.
> The recorder captured the network feed of "Douglas Edwards and the  
> News"
> as it was aired live in New York, and replayed the broadcast three  
> hours later to the CBS Pacific network.
>
> <CBS-TVC-Engineer-John_Radis-At-VTR.jpg>
>
>
> The CBS tape room in Television City was a busy place after that.
> Looks like it might be John Radis at the VTR in the foreground:
> <CBS-TVC Tape Room-WallOfTVC.jpg>
>
> I photographed this picture on a wall at TVC
> during a 2006 tour that CBS Telecine operator David Keleshian
> arranged for members of the Telecine Internet Group.
>
> CBS's lead in using tape for Time Zone Delay was followed
> by NBC at the start of 1957, according to a 1981 article by
> Charles Ginsburg, the leader of Ampex's Quad development team.
> ABC began doing TZD at the change to Daylight Saving time in '57.
>
> The very first VTR seen in public was Ampex's Mark IV prototype,
> demonstrated to a group of CBS affiliates at the 1956 National  
> Radio and
> Television Broadcasters convention in Chicago.
> <AmpexMarkIV-Quad-CBSDemo-NARTB-1956.jpg>
>
> 23 years later, this same machine was retired at CBS-TVC,
> as reported in the caption for this picture...
>
> <AmpexVTR1-AtCBS-TVCRetired.jpg>
>
> that appeared in Broadcast Engineering, May 1981. It accompanied
> an article marking the 25th Anniversary of the Quad format,
> written by Charles P. Ginsburg, who headed the Ampex development team.
>
> In this photo Joe Roizen of Telegen (L) and CBS TVC manager of  
> Videotape Recording
> Charles Mesak (R) flank the historic equipment.
> BE credited the photo to CBS and Donna Foster-Roizen.
>
> One has to wonder where this particular machine went.
>
> So, hoist one for the first generation of Quad engineers... the  
> ones that made the equipment work at Ampex, and the ones like John  
> and Charles (and you!) that made it work on the air.
>
> Ted
>
> Ted Langdell
> Secretary, Quad Videotape Group
>
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