[QuadList] Quad tapes of First SuperBowl--Recorded at WDAU-TV--More about station

[Dennis Ray Wingo]

Broadcast quality is what the station owner says it is.

I learned that from Gene Scott.


On Feb 5, 2011, at 8:50 PM, kylebook at aol.com wrote:

> Hopefully, the NFL Network will schedule a broadcast of this Super Bowl I tape over the summer.  Also hoping that they'll do something similar to what the Major League Baseball channel did when they rebroadcast Game 7 of the 1960 World Series (from Bing Crosby's kine): a live audience wrap arounds featuring interviews with players & fans and their recollections.     
> 
> "The network feed recorded may actually have been an off-air feed of WCBS-TV, NYC:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYOU"
>  
> That must have been a very risky proposition during the summertime, given that Channel 2 is the VHF station most likely to suffer from tropo interference.  I wonder what they did as a backup if the signal had degraded to non-broadcast quality?
>  
> The station I worked at the mid-80s, WGGB in Springfield, MA, used to carry a candlepin bowling show live on Saturdays from an off-air VHF tuner at their transmitter on Mt. Tom in Holyoke, MA, that was sent back to the station on a microwave hop.  The feed was from Channel 5 WCVB in Boston, 100 miles away.  When the off-air feed was degraded due to tropo, the station would run a back-up tape (off quad or 3/4", depending on what blank stock was lying around) of a previous week's match.  Such are the operations at smaller stations, where every penny is counted, and every corner cut!  
>  
> - Kyle Bookholz      
> 
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