[QuadList] ACR use (was Servo Modes)

[Bill Carpenter]

Hi Folks,

With all the talk about KTLA in the late 70's/early 80's I remember during Ed Herliely's time as the VP of Engineering, ( before Ira Goldstone) I worked with John DeMuth's, co-CE, Bill Smith (Smithy) who had half the Chief Engineer's job since it was such a big plant, with all the stages out back. 
I was involved with the AVR-3's and worked with Bill to design the One-Off custom promo editor which worked three AVR-3's. It was in continuous use for many years. 
Later I worked with Ira, after Bill had retired, to complete the ACR-225 sale. Emil Krataville was also one of the great engineers at KLTA. 
When Bill was there, I would get the back-up protection masters of the Rose Parade everyear for the exchange of a similar reel of tape. They were great original masters, great color and no lighting problems, and we used them for the next year.

 
Bye for now, Bill Carpenter (whoof...whoof)


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Nick,

Perhaps you could confirm what I heard and observed there when the ACR 225's replaced the ACR 25's (they shipped out overseas to another buyer?). 

Yes, sweeps was a big thing at channel 5. I worked with Don Kent, Ron Gaviate, Karen Ralke and Theresa Soulliere for a time in promos in '86 during the NABET/GE "problem" at NBC. Got to respect KTLA's engineering department. Seems like I TD'd something at that time also but can't recall. 

In terms of solo TCR shops, one station I worked for in East Texas had a lone TCR that, IIRC, never failed during station break time. The alternative playback devises then in-house were single TR 4, TR 70 and TRT 1's. So when needed, the TCR was called upon to serve. Later, that TCR was replaced with used ACR's from a station in Dallas.

Best Regards,

David Crosthwait
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On Aug 24, 2012, at 9:25 PM, nickgtv at mindspring.com wrote:


>Interesting discussion re: cart machine usage.  I worked at KTLA in the '80's (pre WB and CW) when the shop was truly independent.  A big money-maker for them was their 8 o'clock movie. As I remember, they had two "modes" of operation: Air Operations had two ACR-25s; if a typical movie was to air, roughly half of each break ran from each of the ACRs.  During special occasions (e.g., sweeps), many movies were promoted as having "...only two commercial interruptions..."  For those, I recall building dub reels onto 1" tape (Merlinized VPR2s).  I can't remember if we ran the ACR as a backup to the dub reel.
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>Granted, this is purely anecdotal, but it seems more TCR shops would often use the cart machine to build dub reels for primetime, compared to those with ACRs (at least at the station level).
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>Nick Grbac
>KRON-TV
>San Francisco, CA 
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