[QuadList] Happy Anniversary--CBS Uses Quad to Time Zone Delay Douglas Ed...

Tue Nov 30 22:26:50 CST 2010

great history   article Ted  thanks!  -Ed#

In a message dated 11/30/2010 12:04:20 P.M. US Mountain Standard Tim,  
ted at quadvideotapegroup.com writes:

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.

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:

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. 

23 years later, this same machine was retired at CBS-TVC,
as reported in the caption for this picture...

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_ (http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/) 

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Thanks,

Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC  

See the Museum's Web Site at _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org/) 

We are always looking for  items to add to the museum's display and ref. 
library - please advise if you  have anything we can use.

Coury House / SMECC
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Glendale Az 85301 USA

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