[QuadList] Super Bowl I Videotape-Could an Armed Forces Network bicycle tape be in some dark warehouse?

[Bill Carpenter]

Hi Park & Everybody,

Early in 1986, I was at a TV conference in Hamburg, Germany, which was on a 
Friday and Saturday, and I was presenting on Saturday afternoon.
That evening over good Italian Food, my local salesman Lutz Mulller, told me 
that we should have a good drive back to Franfurt on Sunday morning. 

I told him I wanted to get back in time to watch the Chicago Bears in the Super 
Bowl at the hotel which had an AFRTS feed. 

Well, light blowing snow, good high speed snow tires on MB and we cruised back 
at 120MPH.
The game came on at 10:30 PM locally and I fell asleep in the first Quarter and 
woke up at the end during the Celebration.
BYTW, I helped make a pitch in LA, to sell VPR-3's, to the AFRTS center in 84, 
and after the 30 minute presentation in the CE's office we saw some paper charts 
showing they were buying Sony, so during the conversation I asked what they were 
doing with their AVR-1's and they said that nobody wanted them, so they were to 
be scrapped. 


I made one phone call to our office in Bethesday, caught the Regional Manager, 
Frank Rush, discussed a Trade-In program he had used, he said he would contact 
the right person in the Pentagon, and have him call the CE in the morning. 

We sold 15 fully loaded VPR-3's from those phone calls.
In the 90's they also bought ACR-225's for some places in Europe, and Italy was 
the first of 5 units.

Bill Carpenter






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From: C. Park Seward <park at videopark.com>
To: Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
Sent: Sun, February 6, 2011 8:23:07 AM
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Super Bowl I Videotape-Could an Armed Forces Network 
bicycle tape be in some dark warehouse?

More AFN:



July, 1969. AFTV Germany. NO money. NO budget. Idea of doing live TELEVISION 
was 
not even on anyone's radar scope. Yet a week's coverage of the Apollo XI moon 
landing and surrounding events got done, by the creativity, imagination and 
hard 
work by the guys at AFTV Germany. Fast forward to today. Is the game being 
shown 
by any of the TV outlets in Germany or surrounding countries? If so, I would 
imagine the rights, contracts, laws, regulations, hoops, barriers and endless 
miles of red tape would preclude any possibility of AFN TV carrying such? If 
not, did DoD even do a cost estimate of a satellite feed? Wonder what it would 
cost today? Would 'host nations' even permit such, IF they were also carrying 
it? Back then in '69 Eurovision and host nations were only too willing to 
assist 
the USA in serving its troops!! Just sayin'.....

> 
> 
> AFN putting Super Bowl on radio
> By Rusty Bryan
> Published: January 31, 2011
> 
> AFN-Europe has decided to air Super Bowl XLV live on Powernet radio this
> weekend, network spokesman George Smith said by telephne on Monday morning.
> He added that the network is guessing the broadcast will begin at midnight
> (CET) Monday, but is unable to confirm the air time just yet.
> 
> Now the question becomes, who'll be listening?
> 
> Readers with long memories will recall the days when the overnight radio
> airwaves over here nightly were filled with wall-to-wall live sports
> broadcasts of whatever games were in season. However, budget cuts a few
> years ago and what AFN cited as declining listenership led the military's
> radio and television servce to dump live sports radio.
> 
> Since then, most listeners affected by the change have found Internet and
> European cable substitutes for what AFN used to air. Will they now tune back
> in to AFN radio for this year's Super Bowl?
> 
> Will you listen to the game on the radio? If so, please tell us why. No TV
> in your area? Have other commitments that will take you away from the tube?
> 
> And if you appreciate having the game on the radio, how about letting AFN
> know? Just go to afneurope.net and click on the feedback tab.


Best,
Park

C. Park Seward
Technical Manager


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On Feb 5, 2011, at 10:41 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:

Googling about the rediscovered first Superbowl tape pulled up this item
>
>
>http://www.dvidshub.net/news/44996/troops-overseas-get-live-super-bowl-feed
>Which states:
>Televised Super Bowl coverage was limited at first to videotape copies of the 
>game distributed after the fact to overseas outlets, unless AFN outlets 
>contracted with commercial networks to get the game live. 
>
>
>Hmmm.  Hey Park!  Weren't you in Germany in '67?  Did you folks see the game?
>
>
>Ted
>
>Ted Langdell
>Secretary
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