[QuadList] Happy Birthday, NBC Videotape Central, Burbank

[Ted Langdell]

Yesterday, Saturday, April 28, 2012 marked the 54th anniversary of the dedication of Videotape Central at NBC Burbank. The tape facility inside 3000 West Alameda (at Olive Ave.) cost $1.5 million in 1957-58 dollars.

NBC began time-zone delay from the Burbank tape facility when Daylight Savings Time kicked in. 

The facility included one RCA Color Video Tape Recorder and eight Ampex black-and-white machines that could record color using with RCA Labs hetrodyne electronics.

Soon, three more RCA Broadcast Color Recorders were at work.

Pre-recording programs in Burbank happened later, among them the Fred Astaire specials, and other programs recorded initially with the RCA Labs color process.

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary

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