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just a quick pull of  text  from the embeded  pdf we  are   doing....April, 
1958  Technician-Engineer   -   thanks  Ed Sharpe archivist   for SMECC
 
 
IBEW Stations Get Ampex
Several stations employing IBEW  technicians are on
the list as purchasers of the $45,000  production-model
Ampex videotape recorders. They include: KING-TV,
Seattle  KGW-TV, Portland, Oreg.; KRON-TV, San Francisco;
WEAR-TV, Pensacola, Fla.;  KENS (TV), San
Antonio, Tex.; WHAS-TV, Louisville, Ky.; and KHJTV,
Los  Angeles. The first production model went to
KING-TV last November.

KGIL to New Building
KGIL, San Fernando, Calif.,  which employs members
of Local 45, has moved to new offices and studios  at
1325 Van Nuys Blvd., Pacoima, Calif., where it has more
office space  and two newly-equipped studios, plus a conference
area and an off-duty  lounge. The station's
transmitter and towers remain at 14808 Lassen  Street,
San Fernando.

AMPEX International
Two Ampex Videotape Recorders,  which magnetically
reproduce all the sight and sound of TV, have  been
exported to a London, England commercial TV firm.
Associated  Rediffusion, a TV programming company,
plans to use the Ampex VR-I000's, as  the machines are
designated, to pre-record complete TV shows for  commercial
service throughout England.

Ampex Professional Products Division
has an export video specialist,  Kurt
Machein, who is accompanying the two
1,350 pound machines to  supervise their
modification to British broadcast standards.
Used in the  British Isles only,

British TV. standard uses 25 picture
frames per second with 405  lines to the
frame, as compared with the US standard
of 30 complete frames  per second
and 525 lines per frame. England will
be the fourth country  outside the U. S.
to which Ampex has shipped Videotape
Recording  equipment. Units have already
been shipped to Canada, Japan
and  Germany.

Winner of the 1956 TV Emmy award
for the technical 'advance of the  year,
Ampex has so far delivered nearly 100
Videotape Recorders to U. S.  TV networks,
network affiliates, and independent
stations.
 
Technician-Engineer
 
 
TV/s Patron Saint
St. Claire of Assisi, a 13th Century  nun who had
visions of a far-off church from her sickbed, was  proclaimed,
last month, by Pope Pius XII as patron saint
of television. As  such, she is protectress of technicians,
actor, announcers, stage hands,  producers, directors, and
other toilers in the vineyard of  TV.
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