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

[Scott Thomas]

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?

When I visited that station, they were in the process of installing two Panasonic MARC II systems. Engineers from Panasonic were there, trying to get their machines to talk to WFLA's Utah Scientific automation.

Scott Thomas
WINK-TV
Fort Myers, FL

On Nov 4, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Dennis Degan wrote:

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> 		On Nov 4, 2011, at 10:30 AM, David Crosthwait wrote:
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> > Likewise, engineering had the TCR's running in top shape for this important part of the broadcast. It may be hard to believe, but when that TCR rolled (2 second pre-roll) and was taken (placed on air), that one single TCR and it's head, playing that cart, was going to millions of viewers in the U.S. Talk about reliance on something going right! And that is why two machines were gang-rolled just in case something did go wrong and the backup had to be placed on air (rare).
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> 		I add:
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> 	And here are the 6 TCR's in New York involved in this endeavor, shown in 1976 and 1978:
> 		<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/515356897/>
> 		<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/515357017/>
> 		<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/515329694/>
> 			TCR machines 31 & 32 seemed to do the bulk of the work:
> 		<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/515329586/>
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> 			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> 					     NBC Today Show, New York
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