[QuadList] QuadList Digest, Vol 40, Issue 18

[Neill, Patrick]

 Really Interesting to see that Granada TV in Manchester England had more Ampex VTRs in its studios and OB units than the BBC the UK National broadcaster. As far as I know in 1959 the BBC had 2 Ampex VTRs IN ITS Lime Grove Studios and 1 VTR in a mobile unit.

Pages 18 to 20 of BBC Engineering edition 81 which is here give some information on the early days of VTR in the BBC.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/archive/pdffiles/engineering/bbc_engineering_81.pdf

Members may be interested in the other editions of BBC Engineering and the BBC Monographs which are available here-

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/archive/pdffiles/engineering/bbc_engineering_81.pdf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/library/bbc_monographs/

BBC Monograph 57 Drop Out in Video Tape Recording of June 1965 may be of interest-

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/archive/pdffiles/monographs/bbc_monograph_57.pdf       

Patrick Neill

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Subject: [QuadList] Ampex Head Lines newsletter--Here's a look back to
	1959-Page 7--Resending with correct page numbers
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Another in our continuing series.  If anyone has other editions of Ampex Head Lines, we'd appreciate high quality scans to OCR text and pull photos from, or the originals to scan and send back to you, or the repository of your choice.

Ted

Ted Langdell
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In 1959, Ampex began publishing a newsletter specifically about Videotape and the company's Videotape products.  


Here's the seventh page of Volume 1 Number 3, published in December, 1959, with type turned into editable text by OCR.  


Page 7



Reginald H. Hammans, director of engineering for Granada TV, looks over four of the five Ampex recorders in the firm?s video control room at Manchester, England. The English broadcaster also uses two other VR-1000s in mobile units for remote productions.