[QuadList] Ampex Head Lines newsletter--Here's a look back to 1959-Page 4--Hockey Highlights on Tape-Charles Ginsburg Bio

[Ted Langdell]

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
Secretary
Skype: 	TedLangdell
e-mail:	ted at quadvideotapegroup.com


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


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


Page 4

WXYZ Crew 'Fast Freezes Red Wings Hockey Games
Hockey, as you know, is billed as the world’s fastest game. But the VTR crew at Detroit’s WXYZ-TV performs equally fast in its editing job twice a week for telecasting taped highlights of Detroit Red Wings games.
One observer immediately dubbed the system, “editing on the fly.”
This is how it works.
The Sunday and Thursday night home games of the Red Wings are fed “live” from Olympia Stadium to the Ampex VTRs in WXYZ’s studio. Budd Lynch, popular veteran hockey broadcaster, voices play-by-play commentary direct from the stadium.
As soon as the game ends (around 9 p.m. Sundays and 10 p.m. Thursdays), Lynch heads for the studio-14 miles distant from the rink.
Meanwhile, back in the control room, the WXYZ tape editor is double-checking the best action points previously noted during the progress of the game.
These sequences in each period of the game are carefully timed.
When Lynch arrives, he finds the tape “edited” into 25 minutes of highlights - without splicing. This is done by logging the start and finish points of each segment (in time) from the tape timer on the Ampex machine.
Lynch monitors the selected segments and polishes his introductory remarks for each sequence. At 11 p.m. WXYZ goes on the air with a half-hour summary of that evening’s Red Wings game.
During each of Lynch’s on-live-camera segments, the VTR operator fast-forwards the tape to the next playback sequence.
Larry Williams, Zimmer, Keller and Calvert Agency executive for Stroh’s Beer, the sponsor, reports that the hockey series is “working out real fine.”


WXYZ-TV’s hockey commentator, Budd Lynch (far right), and other studio personnel check over final selec-tion of Detroit Red Wings highlights to be played back (without splicing) from tape recorded that same evening.

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In each issue, HEAD LINES brings you a word sketch of the Ampex people serving you from both Redwood City and the district offices. It is only appropriate to open this feature with the “Father of the VIDEOTAPE Recorder” - Charles P. Ginsburg.)
Charlie Ginsburg was born in San Francisco in 1920. After  attending elementary and secondary schools in the Bay Area, Charlie entered college still undecided as to a vocation. He began as a pre-medical major but switched the next semester to agriculture. While working as a part-time broadcasting engineer, Charles P. Ginsburg Charlie became interested in electronic engineering.
He enrolled at the University of California, taking advanced courses in mathematics and physics. In 1946, by special consent of the University’s math department, he began a concentrated major consisting of a combination of math, advanced electrical engineering courses and physics. Transferring to San Jose State College, he received his AB degree in mathematics (1948).
After graduation, Charlie worked as a broadcast engineer for Bay Area radio stations until 1952, when he joined Ampex specifically to undertake the VIDEOTAPE recorder project. Fruits of his efforts were introduced to the public in 1956 at the CBS Affiliates’ Meeting in Chicago. The VIDEOTAPE recorder was a reality.
At Ampex, Charlie has served as a project engineer, senior project engineer, chief video engineer and manager of advanced video development. He has also been instrumental in the development of a very slow speed instrumentation recorder, a high power audio amplifier for theater use and a facsimile recorder.
Recently named manager of video engineering for Ampex Professional Products Company, Charlie is in charge of all advanced video development, new product design, maintenance of product design, contract engineering and engineering services.
Recognized by the industry for his outstanding contributions, Charlie was awarded the David Sarnoff Gold Medal Award by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (1957) and the Vladimir K. Zworykin television prize by the Institute of Radio Engineers (1958). In star-studded Hollywood on March 16, 1957, he accepted a golden “Emmy”awarded to Ampex for outstanding technical achievement.
Charlie is a senior member of IRE. Last year, he was named a fellow of SMPTE.

Charles P. Ginsburg

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Ted Langdell
Secretary
Skype: 	TedLangdell
e-mail:	ted at quadvideotapegroup.com

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