[QuadList] Link to film/video clips re: David C's reply to"Park's at Penn State--where it's very snowy"

[Dennis Degan]

		On Nov 5, 2011, at 12:56 AM, Scott Thomas wrote:

 > Hey Dennis,
 > I have a question about the TCR-100's there at NBC. The one I  
briefly used at my first station did not have that keypad and  
electroluminescent display on the far left of the machine. I do  
remember visiting WFLA in Tampa in the late 1980s and seeing two TCRs.  
One with and one without the display. What was the display used for?

		I answer:

	That panel was an RCA option called "EPIS" (I forgot what the letters  
stand for).  It was a simple (by today's standards) tape ID system.   
Carts would be recorded with EPIS info.  As a cart played (or even  
during pre-cue), the EPIS data was read.  The info could be sent to an  
automation system so that accurate on-air commercial data could be  
written to the as-aired log.
	I don't remember anything more about EPIS than what I've described  
and I probably got some of it wrong anyway.   ;)

			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
					     NBC Today Show, New York