[QuadList] Ampex Head Lines newsletter--Here's a look back to 1959-Page 8--Southhampton VR-1000's--Free Service!

[Ted Langdell]

Our series of pages from the 1959 Ampex Head Lines draws to a close with this post.  

Note that the previous e-mail with Page 7 in the subject line and Page Six listed in the text should have had Page 7 everywhere.

If anyone has other editions of Ampex Head Lines, we'd appreciate high quality scans to OCR text and pull photos from. Or send us the originals to scan and send back to you, or then on to 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 sixth page of Volume 1 Number 3, published in December, 1959, with type turned into editable text by OCR.  


Page 8


Two video engineers in the master control room of Southern TV, Ltd., Southhampton, England, demonstrate the ease of Ampex VTR operation. By elevating units on a low platform, all operating controls can be reached easily and operated from a sitting position.

SERVICE AROUND THE CLOCK 
Complete, cost-free service for the VR-1000 owner begins at the moment of purchase. It includes factory training of operating personnel, installation service and a one-year service supervision policy. It continues through every aspect of operation.
When the recorder arrives, an Ampex field engineer (a specialist in VIDEOTAPE television recording)
assists in the installation and check-out of the equipment. A short time after installation, the engineer makes another call-to answer all questions, study operating procedures and provide additional training for station personnel.
From six nationwide field offices (including the staff at Redwood City serving the Pacific Northwest), Ampex furnishes service supervision for one year en-
tirely free of cost to the customer. At any time of the day or night, parts - and an engineer - are available from these offices to meet a sudden emergency.
In service, as in manufacture, Ampex is clearly out front - the world over!

TEACHERS MEET PRESS VIA TAPE
A 13-week series of press interview programs produced by California Teachers Association is being recorded on Ampex machines in the studios of KRON-TV, San Francisco, and distributed to stations throughout the state.
The series opener of “Why, Teacher?” went on the air October 11. Stations not yet equipped with VTRs are receiving 16 mm kinescopes of the programs. Two news representatives interview two educators on each 30-minute show. The teachers answer searching questions about educational issues.

TV Advertisers Crowd Aboard VTR Bandwagon
In a time span of less than two years, Ampex’s VIDEOTAPE recorder has achieved a remarkable record: over 500 units have been delivered to broadcasters all over the world... the first tape network is being readied... mobility of TV recording has been achieved... tape syndication is a reality with between 75 and 100 regular television features now being produced and played on Ampex recorders.
Hailed as a remarkable production tool for the television medium, advertisers were quick to jump on the Ampex bandwagon. Stations are reporting big increases in their local business as a result of bringing in new sponsors through the use of Ampex recorders for production. For a while, most of the taped commercial business will be found in the local, retail level as is witnessed by local users such as Macy’s California, Barker Bros. (Los Angeles), Sears-Roebuck, and Safeway Markets. However, the national advertiser is beginning to use taped commercials for country-wide spot presentations.
As a part of its Halloween promotion, Pillsbury purchased time on 28 stations and two network shows for a taped Halloween cake - mix spot. The firm’s agency shipped 45 tape copies of the commercials to stations all over the United States. Production and duplication were done at NTA-Telestudios in New York on Ampex recorders.
In a recent survey reported in TELEVISION DIGEST, 12 producers of commercials in New York show a 1959 gross total of more than $5 million in tape business. Biggest sponsors to be found as tape clients in 1959 include ,such TV “headliners” as Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Nabisco, Kellogg, General Mills, General Foods, S. C. Johnson & Son, Toni, Best Foods, Warner-Lambert, Pontiac, Texaco, Du Pont and U. S. Steel.
Although the networks are still responsible for much of the production of taped commercials, New York independent producers predict that nearly 50% of their gross business in 1961 will consist of tape work.
Quite a growth rate from 1957! 



PRINTED IN U.S.A.

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

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