[QuadList] Did NBC use white lines for queuing?

[David Crosthwait]

Coincidentally, I came across a cue box on a live1961 Dinah Shore show (studio 4 Burbank) I was transferring today. This was not her normal Chevy show as S&H Green Stamps was the sponsor on this episode. The live Chevy sponsored shows don't have the cue box (commercials were either live out of studio 2 adjacent to studio 4 or from a color film chain in telecine). But this particular show did. So why this show had the box is unknown unless there were some regional inserts expected over the net feed. This is the earliest cue box I've ever come across on 2" Quad videotapes from NBC. 



The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson had cue boxes coming directly out of studio 1. The following frame grab is from a 2" Quad Tonight Show recording direct to 2" from SDO 1. 



So the BOC theory might be plausible but at least in these two examples, it was applied at the production switcher.

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On Mar 30, 2016, at 5:41 PM, Dennis Degan via QuadList wrote:

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> From: Dennis Degan <dennyd1 at verizon.net>
> Date: March 30, 2016 5:40:47 PM PDT
> To: Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
> Subject: Re: [QuadList] Did NBC use white lines for queuing?
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> 		On Mar 29, 2016, at 7:49 PM, David Crosthwait wrote:
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> > The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson may have been the initial user of this pulse. I believe the show A.D. triggered the pulse. Maybe the T.D. at the A.D.'s cue. Since Tonight was a 60 network 60 local avail, it was essential to let the affiliates know the break was coming.
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> 		I think:
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> 	It’s more likely that the pulses were added at NBC BOC after the show’s timing had been finalized.  The timing of the break wasn’t finalized during production since there may be some editing done after production that could affect those timings.  Also, the pulse was added to other recorded  shows, but I don’t recall it being added to LIVE shows such as Today.  On Today, local breaks were cued by the anchor’s line "…This is Today on NBC.”  For Today, that was the local cue as long as I can remember.
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> 			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> 					    NBC Today Show, New York
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