[QuadList] ACR use (was Servo Modes)

[Gary Adams]

Hi Nick (and everyone).  Did you ever work with John Demuth (sp?) at KTLA?
I was involved at installing TR-600s at KTLA in the late 70s.  As you could
guess, we and the machines were not very popular (however the people were
quite nice to us).  I learned quite a bit from John, but he was all over us
on every aspect of the TR-600 (and probably for good reason).  We spent more
time on the drop out compensator and servos to make him happy.  Not sure if
that was accomplished.  

To keep on topic, we were in the room with the ACR-25s and always impressed
with their operation.  Certainly they were on air all the time and very well
maintained.

Regards, Gary Adams

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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.

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).

Nick Grbac
KRON-TV
San Francisco, CA 


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