[QuadList] PTL Studio and Production Data ( was Introduction)

Sat Oct 12 18:05:08 CDT 2013

FRED! This is wonderful to have the cameramen's names!

We will probably break the PTL  section   off  to a  section 
instead of having it in the TK 47  section on the museum's  website
since we  will be  getting earlier  cameras   pictured and  VTRS  etc.

QUESTION...  Folks ist hat  boom  seat  thing is   that a CHAPMAN CRAINE?

OK!  check the http://www.smecc.org/rca_tk-47_television_camera.htm
THERE IS A RCA ARTICLE ABOUT THE  PRICE OD  THE SELL & A EQUIP LIST!
What  else can  we  dig up to ad?
There was a whole magazine  related to religious broadcasting and we  have 
a stash of them.... somewhere.
Guess I better  dig them out huh?  When we  got them years  ago it  did not 
 seem  'OLD'  but  yes seems like   lost history now.

Ed!

In a message dated 10/12/2013 1:59:43 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
fkovach at sbcglobal.net writes:

Here’s what I have so  far from the PTL forum.  This pic has generated 
quite a bit of  discussion! 
One person said that  PTL acquired a lot of RCA cameras and VTR’s in 1975 
or 76.  However, the  TK-47 was not introduced until 1978, and I recall an 
older TK-44 being used as  a fixed wide shot in the “Barn” Auditorium which 
was attached to the same  control room as the main PTL studio.  So that 
camera as well as the other  TK-44s might have been a part of the original 
purchase in 1975 that they are  referring to.  He gave me the name of someone to 
ask, so I’ll keep you  posted.  I still think the TK-47s were acquired in the 
early  80’s. 
This is almost  certainly a staged shot.  They noted that the cameras are 
not pointed at  Bakker, nor is he in the camera monitors.  They said that 
there might be  several such staged shots per day for things happening around 
PTL.  One  lady thought that he was holding a “Heritage Herald” which was 
the daily paper  I was referring to.  Another person felt certain that this 
shot was taken  for the cover of Broadcast Magazine, (or perhaps the occasion 
of having made  the cover of that magazine) and that he was holding a copy 
of that  magazine.  But it doesn’t look like there is a picture on whatever 
he is  holding.  So I think it might be the Heritage Herald or some similar  
paper. 
Everyone does agree  on the names of the cameramen:  Ricardo Valle is on 
Cam3 and Rick Auten  is on the boom.  They aren’t sure who took the picture, 
as there were  four photographers on staff at the time.  However, Phil Eggert 
was the  chief photographer at the time. 
No one seems to  dispute my assessment of the time frame, nor have they 
narrowed it down  any. 
I’ll keep you posted  if I receive any more revelations.  

Fred  Kovach 
Broadcast  Technician 
417-848-8381

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TK-44  

Welcome to the Group  Fred!

I have a PTL  postcard in the museum's collection at  SMECC that has Baker 
and the  camera crews  with TK-47s.. wonder  what  year it  was?  Please let 
me know.

here  you can  see it  here  
http://www.smecc.org/rca_tk-47_television_camera.htm

and print off a  picture of it.,

Again   WELCOME!    

Ed Sharpe  archivist  for SMECC  

In a message dated  10/11/2013 9:57:06 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
fkovach at sbcglobal.net  writes:

I have been  lurking for some time, but decided to take the plunge and join 
the  group.   
I am presently the  Chief Engineer of Global Universitybs TV studio in 
Springfield,  MO.  I  have been in broadcasting for 30 years; having interned at 
the PTL  Television Network, where I got my first taste of videotape on 2b 
and 1b and  got hooked!  After my internship, I moved back to my hometown of 
 Pittsburgh, PA where I worked at WRS Video  Labs, starting as a dubber, 
but was soon promoted to Engineer and eventually  to Shop Foreman.  While 
there, I maintained Ampex AVR-1bs and had the  opportunity to restore two 
AVR-2bs.  I mainly worked on their Ampex 1b  VPR-2Bbs though. 
After three years  there, I met my wife and moved to Florence, SC to be 
closer to her.  There  I worked for WPDE-TV15, maintaining their Umatic and 
Beta SP decks.  In  1995, I transitioned into my present position at ICI 
University, which became Global  University in 2000.    
Presently, I have  been called in to maintain an RCA TR-600 at a sister 
studio here in  town.  I am enjoying this b
blast from the pastb in my career, 
and look  forward to doing more work on the 2b format.  While I am sure 
there are  younger engineers than I who work on 2b, I figure that I must be one 
of the  youngest (at age 50) who operated 2b; since I did so at the 
beginning of my  career. 
I am also working  on a Sony 1b and a Hitachi 1b VTR in the same  facility. 
 If anyone has knowledge of Hitachi 1b VTRs, or knows of a 1b forum in  
cyberspace, I would appreciate the information. 
Having read the  wisdom of many of the engineers on this forum, I doubt 
that I will  contribute much.  Ibm not sure I have that much to contribute.   
But if I can help you somehow, just ask. 
Fred  Kovach 
Broadcast  Technician 
417-848-8381 

Fred  Kovach 
Broadcast  Technician 
417-848-8381

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