[QuadList] NBC Burbank: Au Revior--Historical tidbits about Burbank's early Quad operation

[David Crosthwait]

The "10 Eastern, 9 Central Time" style announcement I've seen at least back to 1960 on the Bell System and Dinah Shows so the much ballyhooed time zone delay kludge in Burbank VTR didn't last I bet more than a year or two. I will ask my former boss about that today. When I was at NBC, the CST took the EST feed live. The MST was delayed by KOA in Denver as a regional delay center IIRC. Burbank did the PST and sent 2" or 1" to Hawaii by plane for a one week/two week delay. The Hawaii-then-to-Alaska bicycle of tapes ended when a C band feed from NY went up around 1983 or so, then Hawaii and Alaska did their own zone delay. 

Arizona not being on DST caused those stations to do their own delay. I asked my friend in Tucson why they did not just take the PAC feed instead of the rigors of delaying on their own. The answer was that commercial integration was different. His CBS station used a group of MII decks, then they were an early adopter of an HP hard drive system. 

When the Ku system was installed by NBC, all time zone delay was eventually shifted back to New York. 

I stand to be corrected on any/all of the above.

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On Jan 8, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Gary Adams wrote:

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> Yes, I grew up in Omaha and because of the one hour shift, Johnny Carson was a staple in our household.  Later working for a CBS affiliate in Lincoln, NE, we always had the same feed as Eastern time zone.  But I will say the Midwest is a great place to grow up. 
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> In a later life (Time Logic), we built time zone delay controllers used for several networks (in the 80s).  Mountain was often unusual partially because Arizona doesn’t like Daylight time, so, NBC bought our controllers and gave them to the Arizona affiliates for them to do as they wish. 
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> The more interesting controller we did was for PBS (80s as well) which we installed in Virginia.  This controller input Eastern feed, and output Central, Mountain, Pacific and Hawaii in one box using multiple VTRs.  Quite fun to put together.  What really made it interesting is many affiliates simply recorded their feed locally, only to be rebroadcast at their own schedule.  Today, each affiliate has their own recording capability and they simply schedule when they want to play the shows.  
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> From: QuadList [mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of Steve White
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> Subject: Re: [QuadList] NBC Burbank: Au Revior--Historical tidbits about Burbank's early Quad operation
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> I've often wondered if those who grow up in the Central Time Zone are, on average, better rested than the rest of us.
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> With the general population turning in before or after the nightly news, as many do here in the East.  If so, it could mean an entire segment of the population has developed a different culture; with better sleep habits, leading to better health and longer lives.
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> On 1/8/13 3:54 PM, C. Park Seward wrote:
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> Growing up in the Central Time Zone, 
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> On Jan 6, 2013, at 8:09 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:
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> An 8 p.m. ET program would be replayed for Central and Mountain zones one hour after it fed from New York, and then replayed at 8 p.m. Burbank time for the West Coast.  
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