An effect of the NBC 1980 Olympics that wasn't (was Two Inch Quad Stereo Recording, etc.)

[Ted Langdell]

Ah, yes... the Olympics that wasn't.  That router and a bunch of other stuff must have come home rather quickly.

The sudden absence of Olympic income led to the closure of the NBC News/KNBC bureau at the State Capitol in Sacramento.  The bureau was the last network bureau in there after CBS/KNXT closed at the end of the film era.

Bureau Chief Doug Kreigel went to Burbank as a reporter. Photog Dan Peek chose to move to Burbank to become the Telecopter 4 camera guy. Group 3 engineer sound man (I'll think of his name later) opted to stay in Sacramento and worked for a local television station. Jilla St. Germain (film soundman's daughter) who shipped our film, the daily hire relief photog (Group 6) Gary Tomsic and I (Group 3 sound) found ourselves without that great NBC work. :(  Jilla eventually became an editor at KNBC News, if I recall correctly. 

TK-76/BVU-110 package.  We had an Angenieux 25-250 zoom that saw occasional use when the standard zoom didn't get close enough. 

I had the task of packing it and the rest of the bureau into the white Chevy van, then driving it to Kreigel's house for him to take to Burbank.  Back when Jerry Brown and I both had hair. 

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary
Quad Videotape Group
e-mail:	ted at quadvideotapegroup.com

On Aug 21, 2014, at 6:45 PM, David Crosthwait via QuadList wrote:

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> From: David Crosthwait <david at dcvideo.com>
> Date: August 21, 2014 6:44:33 PM PDT
> To: Ted Langdell <ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>, Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
> Subject: Re: [QuadList] Two Inch Quad Stereo Recording--NBC Burbank--PCM Audio at NBC-NY
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> Burbank's NEC router first went to Moscow (from the factory I think) for the Olympics. Then it was taken apart and shipped to Burbank and installed. It had four audio channels (?) for each video channel. At the time it was the world's largest router, only to be later beaten out by NASA's IIRC. 
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> On Aug 21, 2014, at 4:46 PM, Ted Langdell via QuadList wrote:
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>> From: Ted Langdell <ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>
>> Subject: Re: [QuadList] Two Inch Quad Stereo Recording--NBC Burbank--PCM Audio at NBC-NY
>> Date: August 21, 2014 4:45:12 PM PDT
>> To: David Crosthwait <david at dcvideo.com>, Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
>> Cc: Ted Langdell <ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>
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>> On Aug 21, 2014, at 11:01 AM, David Crosthwait via QuadList wrote:
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>>> When NBC Burbank went stereo throughout the plant via the new Master Grid NEC router, stereo was handled via L+R and L-R per New York directive. It was determined to be a mess and was abandoned around 1983.
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>>> David
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>> A picture of NEC's router and mention of the use in Burbank is mentioned on the inside front cover of this Broadcast Engineering issue:
>> http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Broadcast-Engineering/BE/70s/BE-1979-05.pdf
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>> David, 
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>> Were tapes recorded with this "sum/difference" audio?  I would imagine that would make for a fun time when one of these is encountered in an archive.
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>> The April/May 1976 issue of RCA Engineer has a comprehensive package of articles on NBC NY's facilities for switching, transmission and machine control:
>> http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RCA-Engineer/1976-04-05.pdf
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>> On Page 42, there's an article about how Pulse Code Modulation was used to put four audio channels into the video for routing within the NY facilities. What happens at VTRs is described.  There were 44 VTRs and cart machines in NY at the time.
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>> See next post about what else is in the BE issue.
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>> Cheers,
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>> Ted
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