From w.shepherd at swiftcurrent.ca Tue Sep 5 13:27:45 2017 From: w.shepherd at swiftcurrent.ca (William Shepherd) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 17:27:45 +0000 Subject: AMPEX VPR-2 VTR on eBay Message-ID: Hello, Saw this on eBay and thought it might be of interest to list members: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/AMPEX-VPR-2-VTR-/282639898174. -Will -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com Sun Sep 10 14:30:50 2017 From: Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com (Ted Langdell) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 11:30:50 -0700 Subject: =?utf-8?Q?To_our_Florida_and_South_Eastern_members_=E2=80=94_sta?= =?utf-8?Q?y_safe!?= Message-ID: <85CF76BE-8A2C-4977-8ACD-AB8504BBDCA4@quadvideotapegroup.com> On behalf of our other QuadList members who are not near where Hurricane Irma is affecting Florida and will affect areas north? We hope that wherever you are it's a safe place for you and family and friends that you know. When the storm passes, we hope that you have a home to go back to, a workspace that is workable and have not lost anything significant. If you have need of Media disaster recovery information, please let us know as we have the ability to put up links to that kind of information, and to connect you with people who specialize in disaster recovery for Media: still, magnetic, etc. To our members in the Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama regions... we hope that your recovery from Hurricane Harvey is moving along, and that you were not seriously impacted by that storm. If you are close enough to Irma to be affected by (yet?) Another round of wind and water, we hope you are able to stay safe, And that what matters to you remains. Please feel free to let us know how things are going. And if you have stories to tell of recovery, please share. Ted Ted Langdell Secretary, Quad Videotape Group Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com (530)301-2931 Dictated into and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely responsible for any weird stuff I didn't catch. From Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com Mon Sep 18 11:17:39 2017 From: Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com (Ted Langdell) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:17:39 -0700 Subject: Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System Message-ID: <15DE6E24-3C3B-4D7F-A767-F4F9EEB80704@quadvideotapegroup.com> Today is the 90th anniversary of the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System's first broadcast. Back then, that meant radio. Today's CBS Corporation is shedding its radio arm in a merger with Pennsylvania based Entercom. It's a complicated business "dance" that takes 300 pages to describe in SEC filings. http://www.insideradio.com/free/entercom-reveals-step-by-step-details-of-merger-with-cbs/article_08d9feb8-201c-11e7-a770-278ebffd1579.html 10 years from now, will CBS radio hold a 100th anniversary celebration? And will CBS television try to assert that it is 100 years old? CBS television's first broadcast was July 1st of 1941. You can read more about the companies'business and broadcast history here... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS ... Including its growth from a 16 station chain founded by a New York talent agent, purchase by The manufacturer of Columbia Records and Columbia Phonographs, and how William S. Paley became a controlling owner and grew the company into a major broadcast entity. Along the way, the company has had involvement with program production, equipment development and manufacturing (CBS Labs, HyTron,) and publishing. It's had a variety of controlling ownership, including William S Paley, who brought Paramont pictures into a 49% ownership position, and then built the radio network into a powerhouse that enabled Columbia to buy back the stock from Paramount. CBS's history is an interesting read. Happy 90th Anniversary. We may not get to wish you ?. We now return you to your regularly scheduled activity. Ted Ted Langdell Secretary, Quad Videotape Group Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com (530)301-2931 Dictated into and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely responsible for any weird stuff I didn't catch. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at jmit.com.au Mon Sep 18 17:50:42 2017 From: john at jmit.com.au (John M) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 07:50:42 +1000 Subject: Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System In-Reply-To: <15DE6E24-3C3B-4D7F-A767-F4F9EEB80704@quadvideotapegroup.com> Message-ID: <201709182153.v8ILqcnF025762@isotope.ma.com.au> Regarding CBS, they have recently acquired the TEN / WIN network here in OZ. It covers capital cities and eastern Australia. Hopefully they do a better ob programming wise than the last lot. John Miller Rocky River NSW Australia 0477 083 730 john at jmit.com.au _____ From: Ted Langdell [mailto:Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com] Sent: Tuesday, 19 September 2017 01:18 To: quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com Subject: Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System Today is the 90th anniversary of the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System's first broadcast. Back then, that meant radio. Today's CBS Corporation is shedding its radio arm in a merger with Pennsylvania based Entercom. It's a complicated business "dance" that takes 300 pages to describe in SEC filings. http://www.insideradio.com/free/entercom-reveals-step-by-step-details-of-merger-with-cbs/article_08d9feb8-201c-11e7-a770-278ebffd1579.html 10 years from now, will CBS radio hold a 100th anniversary celebration? And will CBS television try to assert that it is 100 years old? CBS television's first broadcast was July 1st of 1941. You can read more about the companies'business and broadcast history here... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS ... Including its growth from a 16 station chain founded by a New York talent agent, purchase by The manufacturer of Columbia Records and Columbia Phonographs, and how William S. Paley became a controlling owner and grew the company into a major broadcast entity. Along the way, the company has had involvement with program production, equipment development and manufacturing (CBS Labs, HyTron,) and publishing. It's had a variety of controlling ownership, including William S Paley, who brought Paramont pictures into a 49% ownership position, and then built the radio network into a powerhouse that enabled Columbia to buy back the stock from Paramount. CBS's history is an interesting read. Happy 90th Anniversary. We may not get to wish you ?. We now return you to your regularly scheduled activity. 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Steve On September 18, 2017 5:54:23 PM John M via QuadList wrote: > ______________________________________________ > Please trim posts to relevant info when replying. > > Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > > Send QuadList list posts to QuadList at quadvideotapegroup.com > Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here: > http://quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ted at QuadVideotapeGroup.com Mon Sep 18 23:11:02 2017 From: ted at QuadVideotapeGroup.com (Ted Langdell) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:11:02 -0700 Subject: [QuadList] Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System--WTOP-AM, FM and TV, Washington--Details that may surprise you! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <43271C8A-026B-4630-97CB-4814DABD899B@QuadVideotapeGroup.com> Steve, you had the pleasure of working for WTOP-TV in the original Broadcast House atop Mount Reno when Channel 9 was wholly owned by Post-Newsweek, the Washington Post broadcast division created when the Post?s owners bought Newsweek magazine and its television stations. You were there three years after the first Quad VTRs arrived in January, 1960, and 58 years this month since WTOP announced in September, 1959 that it would install videotape recorders, according to Royce Fish as noted by QuadList member and broadcast historian James Snyder in a webpage linked below. I?ve not been able to find any trade press announcements or other indication of what brand, but it may be safe to assume Ampex, since CBS had purchased Ampex machines for the network and its other Owned stations/ Steve: Can you shed light on what was in place in 1963? Do you have pictures? CBS had a 45 percent interest in WTOP AM, FM and TV from June, 1950 to October 1954. A month after it ?bought in,? to the television station ownership, WTOP-TV got the first license to broadcast the CBS-developed 405-line field sequential color. CBS sold its interests the WTOP radio and TV operations to comply with limits on the number of AM stations it could own? which was seven at the time. CBS acquired the radio station in 1931, after realizing the deal they?d made to have a primary affiliated station in the Washington, D. C . area put them ?in bed? with a faction of the Klu Klux Klan. A faction that was involved with taking over Republican Party organizations in Brooklyn, NY, among other places. Read QuadList member James Snyder?s 2002 history behind what was originally WTRC, Brooklyn, NY, how it moved to Virginia and became the CBS affiliate for DC. http://home.earthlink.net/~hdtv/History/Stations/WJSVhistory.html See more of James?s work including Washington Post and New York Times items from 1937, 1928 here: http://dcmemories.com/wjsv/WJSVHistory.html DC public Public Television station WETA noted the background in this 2015 item: https://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/2015/01/13/klan-leaves-its-mark-washingtons-airwaves The FCC History cards on the station can be found here: https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=67712&.pdf As WJSV, the station recorded a complete day of broadcasting on Thursday, September 21, 1939, using 38, double-sided 16? transcription discs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJSV_broadcast_day https://www.loc.gov/programs/static/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/WJSV.pdf You can listen to the broadcasts here: http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7E1930s2/radio/day/radio.html This broadcast and 54 other recordings were named to the 2003 National Recording Registry, aimed at preserving to preserve recordings that are considered "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.? Here is the list of nominees to the NRR: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-04-061/ WTOP-FM began as an FM station co-owned with the Washington Post?s WINX AM. The story of the FM station and development of WTOP-TV are chronicled in this RadioWorld story from February, 2010 by QuadList member James O?Neal: http://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/0004/the-39insideout39-antenna-installation/322644 More about WTOP-TV (now TEGNA-owned WUSA) here: Here?s James Snyder?shistory of WTOP in 1993 and 1998 while at The American University. http://home.earthlink.net/~hdtv/History/WTOP/WTOP-TV1.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUSA_(TV) Among the people who worked at WTOP-TV in its early years: Walter Cronkite Sam Donaldson Andrea Mitchell Max Robinson Warner Wolf (who created his signature line ?Lets go to the videotape? when the director didn?t catch the cue several times. It got the director?s attention, and he told Wolf to keep doing that.) Arthur Godfrey WTOP-TV.net blog maintained by Lee Shephard, announcer there from 1961-69: http://www.wtoptv.net More about WTOP-AM, 1500 (now Hubbard-owned WFED) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFED. WFED has a three-tower directional array in the Wheaton section of Silver Spring, Maryland on University Blvd. West adjacent to Amherst Ave . to pump 50KW up and down the east coast, and protect Hubbard-owned KSTP-AM, Minneapolis-St. Paul. I remember being quite surprised to see these have these towers reveal themselves as I came around a bend on University in the late winter afternoon when visiting DC on business. The orangey glow of the low-angle sun created a warm impression as it heightened the color of the tower?s red paint and tinted the Art-Deco transmitter building. The Library of Congress has a number of vintage photos of the then-WJSV transmitter facility that CBS built in Wheaton, MD as part of the deal it made with the station?s Klu Klux Klan affiliated ownership. https://www.loc.gov/search/?in=&q=WJSV&new=true&st= Here?s a special section of the Washington Post on March 3, 1940 regarding the new transmitter facility: http://lookoutlee.blogspot.com/2003/06/just-yesterday.html along James? history of WTOP-AM. Trivia questions: What department store owned stations on channel 9 in two major East Coast markets? The illuminated ?9? logo number from the original WTOP Broadcast House is owned by one of our members. Whom? Cheers, Ted Ted Langdell Secretary, Quad Videotape Group ted at QuadVideotapeGroup.com +1 (530) 301-2931 www.QuadVideotapeGroup.com https://www.facebook.com/QuadVideotapeGroup > On Sep 18, 2017, at 3:05 PM, Steve White via QuadList wrote: > > From: Steve White > Subject: Re: [QuadList] Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System > Date: September 18, 2017 at 3:05:25 PM PDT > To: Quad List , Ted Langdell > > > Thanks, Ted. Good stuff. > > My first job was at WTOP-TV, in 1963. The station provided production facilities for all CBS television originating from DC...studio and remote. It was a great place to be in '63. > > Steve > > On September 18, 2017 5:54:23 PM John M via QuadList wrote: > >> >> RE: Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System >> From John M >> Date Sep 18, 5:54 PM >> To 'Ted Langdell' , quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com >> >> ? >> Regarding CBS, they have recently acquired the TEN / WIN network here in OZ. It covers capital cities and eastern Australia. Hopefully they do a better ob programming wise than the last lot. >> >> John Miller >> Rocky River >> NSW >> Australia >> 0477 083 730 >> john at jmit.com.au >> >> >> From: Ted Langdell [mailto:Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, 19 September 2017 01:18 >> To: quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com >> Subject: Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System >> >> Today is the 90th anniversary of the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System's first broadcast. >> >> Back then, that meant radio. Today's CBS Corporation is shedding its radio arm in a merger with Pennsylvania based Entercom. >> >> It's a complicated business "dance" that takes 300 pages to describe in SEC filings. >> >> http://www.insideradio.com/free/entercom-reveals-step-by-step-details-of-merger-with-cbs/article_08d9feb8-201c-11e7-a770-278ebffd1579.html >> >> 10 years from now, will CBS radio hold a 100th anniversary celebration? >> >> And will CBS television try to assert that it is 100 years old? >> >> CBS television's first broadcast was July 1st of 1941. >> >> You can read more about the companies'business and broadcast history here... >> >> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS >> >> ... Including its growth from a 16 station chain founded by a New York talent agent, purchase by The manufacturer of Columbia Records and Columbia Phonographs, and how William S. Paley became a controlling owner and grew the company into a major broadcast entity. >> >> Along the way, the company has had involvement with program production, equipment development and manufacturing (CBS Labs, HyTron,) and publishing. >> >> It's had a variety of controlling ownership, including William S Paley, who brought Paramont pictures into a 49% ownership position, and then built the radio network into a powerhouse that enabled Columbia to buy back the stock from Paramount. >> >> CBS's history is an interesting read. >> >> Happy 90th Anniversary. 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URL: From Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com Wed Sep 20 00:10:06 2017 From: Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com (Ted Langdell) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 21:10:06 -0700 Subject: Quad deck in Israel Message-ID: Hi, Shai, Congratulations on your VR-1200's safe journey across the pond and sea. Glad to hear the teething problems are bygones. Hope you are able to do well with that new addition. You join QuadList member Joav Shedema I Tel Aviv with Ampex Quads in Israel. Congratulations, again. Shana Tova to you and yours, and I hope you can blow your horn again about some of your first transfers. Pictures, too. Ted Ted Langdell Secretary, Quad Videotape Group Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com (530)301-2931 Dictated into and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely responsible for any weird stuff I didn't catch. > On Sep 19, 2017, at 2:07 PM, Shai Drori wrote: > > After a few months on the high seas and still having some teething problems I am happy to announce that another quad deck is getting to see action. Israel hasn't had a quad deck runnig in decades and now I have one VR1200 sitting right next to the VPR-3. > > And so to all my Jewish friends on the list, a very happy New Year. Shana Tova everyone. > ?????, > ?? ?????. 0544-470-420 > ????? ?????? ????????? ?? ????? ????? ????? 8-35?? > Cheers > Shai Drori > Expert digitization services for Audio Video > 3K scanning for film 8mm-35mm > Timeless Recordings Music Label > www.audiovideofilm.com > shayke888 at gmail.com > Tripadvisor level 5 contributor, level 10 restaurant expert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We hope that wherever you are it's a safe place for you and family and friends that you know. When the storm passes, we hope that you have a home to go back to, a workspace that is workable and have not lost anything significant. If you have need of Media disaster recovery information, please let us know as we have the ability to put up links to that kind of information, and to connect you with people who specialize in disaster recovery for Media: still, magnetic, etc. To our members in the Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama regions... we hope that your recovery from Hurricane Harvey is moving along, and that you were not seriously impacted by that storm. If you are close enough to Irma to be affected by (yet?) Another round of wind and water, we hope you are able to stay safe, And that what matters to you remains. Please feel free to let us know how things are going. And if you have stories to tell of recovery, please share. Ted Ted Langdell Secretary, Quad Videotape Group Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com (530)301-2931 Dictated into and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely responsible for any weird stuff I didn't catch. From Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com Mon Sep 18 10:17:39 2017 From: Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com (Ted Langdell) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:17:39 -0700 Subject: Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System Message-ID: <15DE6E24-3C3B-4D7F-A767-F4F9EEB80704@quadvideotapegroup.com> Today is the 90th anniversary of the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System's first broadcast. Back then, that meant radio. Today's CBS Corporation is shedding its radio arm in a merger with Pennsylvania based Entercom. It's a complicated business "dance" that takes 300 pages to describe in SEC filings. http://www.insideradio.com/free/entercom-reveals-step-by-step-details-of-merger-with-cbs/article_08d9feb8-201c-11e7-a770-278ebffd1579.html 10 years from now, will CBS radio hold a 100th anniversary celebration? And will CBS television try to assert that it is 100 years old? CBS television's first broadcast was July 1st of 1941. You can read more about the companies'business and broadcast history here... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS ... Including its growth from a 16 station chain founded by a New York talent agent, purchase by The manufacturer of Columbia Records and Columbia Phonographs, and how William S. Paley became a controlling owner and grew the company into a major broadcast entity. Along the way, the company has had involvement with program production, equipment development and manufacturing (CBS Labs, HyTron,) and publishing. It's had a variety of controlling ownership, including William S Paley, who brought Paramont pictures into a 49% ownership position, and then built the radio network into a powerhouse that enabled Columbia to buy back the stock from Paramount. CBS's history is an interesting read. Happy 90th Anniversary. We may not get to wish you ?. We now return you to your regularly scheduled activity. Ted Ted Langdell Secretary, Quad Videotape Group Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com (530)301-2931 Dictated into and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely responsible for any weird stuff I didn't catch. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at jmit.com.au Mon Sep 18 16:50:42 2017 From: john at jmit.com.au (John M) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 07:50:42 +1000 Subject: Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System In-Reply-To: <15DE6E24-3C3B-4D7F-A767-F4F9EEB80704@quadvideotapegroup.com> Message-ID: <201709182153.v8ILqcnF025762@isotope.ma.com.au> Regarding CBS, they have recently acquired the TEN / WIN network here in OZ. It covers capital cities and eastern Australia. Hopefully they do a better ob programming wise than the last lot. John Miller Rocky River NSW Australia 0477 083 730 john at jmit.com.au _____ From: Ted Langdell [mailto:Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com] Sent: Tuesday, 19 September 2017 01:18 To: quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com Subject: Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System Today is the 90th anniversary of the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System's first broadcast. Back then, that meant radio. Today's CBS Corporation is shedding its radio arm in a merger with Pennsylvania based Entercom. It's a complicated business "dance" that takes 300 pages to describe in SEC filings. http://www.insideradio.com/free/entercom-reveals-step-by-step-details-of-merger-with-cbs/article_08d9feb8-201c-11e7-a770-278ebffd1579.html 10 years from now, will CBS radio hold a 100th anniversary celebration? And will CBS television try to assert that it is 100 years old? CBS television's first broadcast was July 1st of 1941. You can read more about the companies'business and broadcast history here... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS ... Including its growth from a 16 station chain founded by a New York talent agent, purchase by The manufacturer of Columbia Records and Columbia Phonographs, and how William S. Paley became a controlling owner and grew the company into a major broadcast entity. Along the way, the company has had involvement with program production, equipment development and manufacturing (CBS Labs, HyTron,) and publishing. It's had a variety of controlling ownership, including William S Paley, who brought Paramont pictures into a 49% ownership position, and then built the radio network into a powerhouse that enabled Columbia to buy back the stock from Paramount. CBS's history is an interesting read. Happy 90th Anniversary. We may not get to wish you ?. We now return you to your regularly scheduled activity. 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Steve On September 18, 2017 5:54:23 PM John M via QuadList wrote: > ______________________________________________ > Please trim posts to relevant info when replying. > > Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > > Send QuadList list posts to QuadList at quadvideotapegroup.com > Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here: > http://quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ted at QuadVideotapeGroup.com Mon Sep 18 22:11:02 2017 From: ted at QuadVideotapeGroup.com (Ted Langdell) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:11:02 -0700 Subject: [QuadList] Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System--WTOP-AM, FM and TV, Washington--Details that may surprise you! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <43271C8A-026B-4630-97CB-4814DABD899B@QuadVideotapeGroup.com> Steve, you had the pleasure of working for WTOP-TV in the original Broadcast House atop Mount Reno when Channel 9 was wholly owned by Post-Newsweek, the Washington Post broadcast division created when the Post?s owners bought Newsweek magazine and its television stations. You were there three years after the first Quad VTRs arrived in January, 1960, and 58 years this month since WTOP announced in September, 1959 that it would install videotape recorders, according to Royce Fish as noted by QuadList member and broadcast historian James Snyder in a webpage linked below. I?ve not been able to find any trade press announcements or other indication of what brand, but it may be safe to assume Ampex, since CBS had purchased Ampex machines for the network and its other Owned stations/ Steve: Can you shed light on what was in place in 1963? Do you have pictures? CBS had a 45 percent interest in WTOP AM, FM and TV from June, 1950 to October 1954. A month after it ?bought in,? to the television station ownership, WTOP-TV got the first license to broadcast the CBS-developed 405-line field sequential color. CBS sold its interests the WTOP radio and TV operations to comply with limits on the number of AM stations it could own? which was seven at the time. CBS acquired the radio station in 1931, after realizing the deal they?d made to have a primary affiliated station in the Washington, D. C . area put them ?in bed? with a faction of the Klu Klux Klan. A faction that was involved with taking over Republican Party organizations in Brooklyn, NY, among other places. Read QuadList member James Snyder?s 2002 history behind what was originally WTRC, Brooklyn, NY, how it moved to Virginia and became the CBS affiliate for DC. http://home.earthlink.net/~hdtv/History/Stations/WJSVhistory.html See more of James?s work including Washington Post and New York Times items from 1937, 1928 here: http://dcmemories.com/wjsv/WJSVHistory.html DC public Public Television station WETA noted the background in this 2015 item: https://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/2015/01/13/klan-leaves-its-mark-washingtons-airwaves The FCC History cards on the station can be found here: https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=67712&.pdf As WJSV, the station recorded a complete day of broadcasting on Thursday, September 21, 1939, using 38, double-sided 16? transcription discs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJSV_broadcast_day https://www.loc.gov/programs/static/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/WJSV.pdf You can listen to the broadcasts here: http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7E1930s2/radio/day/radio.html This broadcast and 54 other recordings were named to the 2003 National Recording Registry, aimed at preserving to preserve recordings that are considered "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.? Here is the list of nominees to the NRR: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-04-061/ WTOP-FM began as an FM station co-owned with the Washington Post?s WINX AM. The story of the FM station and development of WTOP-TV are chronicled in this RadioWorld story from February, 2010 by QuadList member James O?Neal: http://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/0004/the-39insideout39-antenna-installation/322644 More about WTOP-TV (now TEGNA-owned WUSA) here: Here?s James Snyder?shistory of WTOP in 1993 and 1998 while at The American University. http://home.earthlink.net/~hdtv/History/WTOP/WTOP-TV1.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUSA_(TV) Among the people who worked at WTOP-TV in its early years: Walter Cronkite Sam Donaldson Andrea Mitchell Max Robinson Warner Wolf (who created his signature line ?Lets go to the videotape? when the director didn?t catch the cue several times. It got the director?s attention, and he told Wolf to keep doing that.) Arthur Godfrey WTOP-TV.net blog maintained by Lee Shephard, announcer there from 1961-69: http://www.wtoptv.net More about WTOP-AM, 1500 (now Hubbard-owned WFED) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFED. WFED has a three-tower directional array in the Wheaton section of Silver Spring, Maryland on University Blvd. West adjacent to Amherst Ave . to pump 50KW up and down the east coast, and protect Hubbard-owned KSTP-AM, Minneapolis-St. Paul. I remember being quite surprised to see these have these towers reveal themselves as I came around a bend on University in the late winter afternoon when visiting DC on business. The orangey glow of the low-angle sun created a warm impression as it heightened the color of the tower?s red paint and tinted the Art-Deco transmitter building. The Library of Congress has a number of vintage photos of the then-WJSV transmitter facility that CBS built in Wheaton, MD as part of the deal it made with the station?s Klu Klux Klan affiliated ownership. https://www.loc.gov/search/?in=&q=WJSV&new=true&st= Here?s a special section of the Washington Post on March 3, 1940 regarding the new transmitter facility: http://lookoutlee.blogspot.com/2003/06/just-yesterday.html along James? history of WTOP-AM. Trivia questions: What department store owned stations on channel 9 in two major East Coast markets? The illuminated ?9? logo number from the original WTOP Broadcast House is owned by one of our members. Whom? Cheers, Ted Ted Langdell Secretary, Quad Videotape Group ted at QuadVideotapeGroup.com +1 (530) 301-2931 www.QuadVideotapeGroup.com https://www.facebook.com/QuadVideotapeGroup > On Sep 18, 2017, at 3:05 PM, Steve White via QuadList wrote: > > From: Steve White > Subject: Re: [QuadList] Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System > Date: September 18, 2017 at 3:05:25 PM PDT > To: Quad List , Ted Langdell > > > Thanks, Ted. Good stuff. > > My first job was at WTOP-TV, in 1963. The station provided production facilities for all CBS television originating from DC...studio and remote. It was a great place to be in '63. > > Steve > > On September 18, 2017 5:54:23 PM John M via QuadList wrote: > >> >> RE: Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System >> From John M >> Date Sep 18, 5:54 PM >> To 'Ted Langdell' , quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com >> >> ? >> Regarding CBS, they have recently acquired the TEN / WIN network here in OZ. It covers capital cities and eastern Australia. Hopefully they do a better ob programming wise than the last lot. >> >> John Miller >> Rocky River >> NSW >> Australia >> 0477 083 730 >> john at jmit.com.au >> >> >> From: Ted Langdell [mailto:Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, 19 September 2017 01:18 >> To: quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com >> Subject: Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System >> >> Today is the 90th anniversary of the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System's first broadcast. >> >> Back then, that meant radio. Today's CBS Corporation is shedding its radio arm in a merger with Pennsylvania based Entercom. >> >> It's a complicated business "dance" that takes 300 pages to describe in SEC filings. >> >> http://www.insideradio.com/free/entercom-reveals-step-by-step-details-of-merger-with-cbs/article_08d9feb8-201c-11e7-a770-278ebffd1579.html >> >> 10 years from now, will CBS radio hold a 100th anniversary celebration? >> >> And will CBS television try to assert that it is 100 years old? >> >> CBS television's first broadcast was July 1st of 1941. >> >> You can read more about the companies'business and broadcast history here... >> >> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS >> >> ... Including its growth from a 16 station chain founded by a New York talent agent, purchase by The manufacturer of Columbia Records and Columbia Phonographs, and how William S. Paley became a controlling owner and grew the company into a major broadcast entity. >> >> Along the way, the company has had involvement with program production, equipment development and manufacturing (CBS Labs, HyTron,) and publishing. >> >> It's had a variety of controlling ownership, including William S Paley, who brought Paramont pictures into a 49% ownership position, and then built the radio network into a powerhouse that enabled Columbia to buy back the stock from Paramount. >> >> CBS's history is an interesting read. >> >> Happy 90th Anniversary. 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Israel hasn't had a quad deck runnig in decades and now I have one VR1200 sitting right next to the VPR-3. > > And so to all my Jewish friends on the list, a very happy New Year. Shana Tova everyone. > ?????, > ?? ?????. 0544-470-420 > ????? ?????? ????????? ?? ????? ????? ????? 8-35?? > Cheers > Shai Drori > Expert digitization services for Audio Video > 3K scanning for film 8mm-35mm > Timeless Recordings Music Label > www.audiovideofilm.com > shayke888 at gmail.com > Tripadvisor level 5 contributor, level 10 restaurant expert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We hope that wherever you are it's a safe place for you and family and friends that you know. When the storm passes, we hope that you have a home to go back to, a workspace that is workable and have not lost anything significant. If you have need of Media disaster recovery information, please let us know as we have the ability to put up links to that kind of information, and to connect you with people who specialize in disaster recovery for Media: still, magnetic, etc. To our members in the Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama regions... we hope that your recovery from Hurricane Harvey is moving along, and that you were not seriously impacted by that storm. If you are close enough to Irma to be affected by (yet?) Another round of wind and water, we hope you are able to stay safe, And that what matters to you remains. Please feel free to let us know how things are going. And if you have stories to tell of recovery, please share. Ted Ted Langdell Secretary, Quad Videotape Group Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com (530)301-2931 Dictated into and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely responsible for any weird stuff I didn't catch. From Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com Mon Sep 18 10:17:39 2017 From: Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com (Ted Langdell) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:17:39 -0700 Subject: Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System Message-ID: <15DE6E24-3C3B-4D7F-A767-F4F9EEB80704@quadvideotapegroup.com> Today is the 90th anniversary of the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System's first broadcast. Back then, that meant radio. Today's CBS Corporation is shedding its radio arm in a merger with Pennsylvania based Entercom. It's a complicated business "dance" that takes 300 pages to describe in SEC filings. http://www.insideradio.com/free/entercom-reveals-step-by-step-details-of-merger-with-cbs/article_08d9feb8-201c-11e7-a770-278ebffd1579.html 10 years from now, will CBS radio hold a 100th anniversary celebration? And will CBS television try to assert that it is 100 years old? CBS television's first broadcast was July 1st of 1941. You can read more about the companies'business and broadcast history here... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS ... Including its growth from a 16 station chain founded by a New York talent agent, purchase by The manufacturer of Columbia Records and Columbia Phonographs, and how William S. Paley became a controlling owner and grew the company into a major broadcast entity. Along the way, the company has had involvement with program production, equipment development and manufacturing (CBS Labs, HyTron,) and publishing. It's had a variety of controlling ownership, including William S Paley, who brought Paramont pictures into a 49% ownership position, and then built the radio network into a powerhouse that enabled Columbia to buy back the stock from Paramount. CBS's history is an interesting read. Happy 90th Anniversary. We may not get to wish you ?. We now return you to your regularly scheduled activity. Ted Ted Langdell Secretary, Quad Videotape Group Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com (530)301-2931 Dictated into and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely responsible for any weird stuff I didn't catch. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at jmit.com.au Mon Sep 18 16:50:42 2017 From: john at jmit.com.au (John M) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 07:50:42 +1000 Subject: Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System In-Reply-To: <15DE6E24-3C3B-4D7F-A767-F4F9EEB80704@quadvideotapegroup.com> Message-ID: <201709182153.v8ILqcnF025762@isotope.ma.com.au> Regarding CBS, they have recently acquired the TEN / WIN network here in OZ. It covers capital cities and eastern Australia. Hopefully they do a better ob programming wise than the last lot. John Miller Rocky River NSW Australia 0477 083 730 john at jmit.com.au _____ From: Ted Langdell [mailto:Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com] Sent: Tuesday, 19 September 2017 01:18 To: quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com Subject: Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System Today is the 90th anniversary of the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System's first broadcast. Back then, that meant radio. Today's CBS Corporation is shedding its radio arm in a merger with Pennsylvania based Entercom. It's a complicated business "dance" that takes 300 pages to describe in SEC filings. http://www.insideradio.com/free/entercom-reveals-step-by-step-details-of-merger-with-cbs/article_08d9feb8-201c-11e7-a770-278ebffd1579.html 10 years from now, will CBS radio hold a 100th anniversary celebration? And will CBS television try to assert that it is 100 years old? CBS television's first broadcast was July 1st of 1941. You can read more about the companies'business and broadcast history here... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS ... Including its growth from a 16 station chain founded by a New York talent agent, purchase by The manufacturer of Columbia Records and Columbia Phonographs, and how William S. Paley became a controlling owner and grew the company into a major broadcast entity. Along the way, the company has had involvement with program production, equipment development and manufacturing (CBS Labs, HyTron,) and publishing. It's had a variety of controlling ownership, including William S Paley, who brought Paramont pictures into a 49% ownership position, and then built the radio network into a powerhouse that enabled Columbia to buy back the stock from Paramount. CBS's history is an interesting read. Happy 90th Anniversary. We may not get to wish you ?. We now return you to your regularly scheduled activity. 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Steve On September 18, 2017 5:54:23 PM John M via QuadList wrote: > ______________________________________________ > Please trim posts to relevant info when replying. > > Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > > Send QuadList list posts to QuadList at quadvideotapegroup.com > Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here: > http://quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ted at QuadVideotapeGroup.com Mon Sep 18 22:11:02 2017 From: ted at QuadVideotapeGroup.com (Ted Langdell) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:11:02 -0700 Subject: [QuadList] Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System--WTOP-AM, FM and TV, Washington--Details that may surprise you! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <43271C8A-026B-4630-97CB-4814DABD899B@QuadVideotapeGroup.com> Steve, you had the pleasure of working for WTOP-TV in the original Broadcast House atop Mount Reno when Channel 9 was wholly owned by Post-Newsweek, the Washington Post broadcast division created when the Post?s owners bought Newsweek magazine and its television stations. You were there three years after the first Quad VTRs arrived in January, 1960, and 58 years this month since WTOP announced in September, 1959 that it would install videotape recorders, according to Royce Fish as noted by QuadList member and broadcast historian James Snyder in a webpage linked below. I?ve not been able to find any trade press announcements or other indication of what brand, but it may be safe to assume Ampex, since CBS had purchased Ampex machines for the network and its other Owned stations/ Steve: Can you shed light on what was in place in 1963? Do you have pictures? CBS had a 45 percent interest in WTOP AM, FM and TV from June, 1950 to October 1954. A month after it ?bought in,? to the television station ownership, WTOP-TV got the first license to broadcast the CBS-developed 405-line field sequential color. CBS sold its interests the WTOP radio and TV operations to comply with limits on the number of AM stations it could own? which was seven at the time. CBS acquired the radio station in 1931, after realizing the deal they?d made to have a primary affiliated station in the Washington, D. C . area put them ?in bed? with a faction of the Klu Klux Klan. A faction that was involved with taking over Republican Party organizations in Brooklyn, NY, among other places. Read QuadList member James Snyder?s 2002 history behind what was originally WTRC, Brooklyn, NY, how it moved to Virginia and became the CBS affiliate for DC. http://home.earthlink.net/~hdtv/History/Stations/WJSVhistory.html See more of James?s work including Washington Post and New York Times items from 1937, 1928 here: http://dcmemories.com/wjsv/WJSVHistory.html DC public Public Television station WETA noted the background in this 2015 item: https://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/2015/01/13/klan-leaves-its-mark-washingtons-airwaves The FCC History cards on the station can be found here: https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=67712&.pdf As WJSV, the station recorded a complete day of broadcasting on Thursday, September 21, 1939, using 38, double-sided 16? transcription discs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJSV_broadcast_day https://www.loc.gov/programs/static/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/WJSV.pdf You can listen to the broadcasts here: http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7E1930s2/radio/day/radio.html This broadcast and 54 other recordings were named to the 2003 National Recording Registry, aimed at preserving to preserve recordings that are considered "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.? Here is the list of nominees to the NRR: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-04-061/ WTOP-FM began as an FM station co-owned with the Washington Post?s WINX AM. The story of the FM station and development of WTOP-TV are chronicled in this RadioWorld story from February, 2010 by QuadList member James O?Neal: http://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/0004/the-39insideout39-antenna-installation/322644 More about WTOP-TV (now TEGNA-owned WUSA) here: Here?s James Snyder?shistory of WTOP in 1993 and 1998 while at The American University. http://home.earthlink.net/~hdtv/History/WTOP/WTOP-TV1.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUSA_(TV) Among the people who worked at WTOP-TV in its early years: Walter Cronkite Sam Donaldson Andrea Mitchell Max Robinson Warner Wolf (who created his signature line ?Lets go to the videotape? when the director didn?t catch the cue several times. It got the director?s attention, and he told Wolf to keep doing that.) Arthur Godfrey WTOP-TV.net blog maintained by Lee Shephard, announcer there from 1961-69: http://www.wtoptv.net More about WTOP-AM, 1500 (now Hubbard-owned WFED) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFED. WFED has a three-tower directional array in the Wheaton section of Silver Spring, Maryland on University Blvd. West adjacent to Amherst Ave . to pump 50KW up and down the east coast, and protect Hubbard-owned KSTP-AM, Minneapolis-St. Paul. I remember being quite surprised to see these have these towers reveal themselves as I came around a bend on University in the late winter afternoon when visiting DC on business. The orangey glow of the low-angle sun created a warm impression as it heightened the color of the tower?s red paint and tinted the Art-Deco transmitter building. The Library of Congress has a number of vintage photos of the then-WJSV transmitter facility that CBS built in Wheaton, MD as part of the deal it made with the station?s Klu Klux Klan affiliated ownership. https://www.loc.gov/search/?in=&q=WJSV&new=true&st= Here?s a special section of the Washington Post on March 3, 1940 regarding the new transmitter facility: http://lookoutlee.blogspot.com/2003/06/just-yesterday.html along James? history of WTOP-AM. Trivia questions: What department store owned stations on channel 9 in two major East Coast markets? The illuminated ?9? logo number from the original WTOP Broadcast House is owned by one of our members. Whom? Cheers, Ted Ted Langdell Secretary, Quad Videotape Group ted at QuadVideotapeGroup.com +1 (530) 301-2931 www.QuadVideotapeGroup.com https://www.facebook.com/QuadVideotapeGroup > On Sep 18, 2017, at 3:05 PM, Steve White via QuadList wrote: > > From: Steve White > Subject: Re: [QuadList] Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System > Date: September 18, 2017 at 3:05:25 PM PDT > To: Quad List , Ted Langdell > > > Thanks, Ted. Good stuff. > > My first job was at WTOP-TV, in 1963. The station provided production facilities for all CBS television originating from DC...studio and remote. It was a great place to be in '63. > > Steve > > On September 18, 2017 5:54:23 PM John M via QuadList wrote: > >> >> RE: Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System >> From John M >> Date Sep 18, 5:54 PM >> To 'Ted Langdell' , quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com >> >> ? >> Regarding CBS, they have recently acquired the TEN / WIN network here in OZ. It covers capital cities and eastern Australia. Hopefully they do a better ob programming wise than the last lot. >> >> John Miller >> Rocky River >> NSW >> Australia >> 0477 083 730 >> john at jmit.com.au >> >> >> From: Ted Langdell [mailto:Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, 19 September 2017 01:18 >> To: quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com >> Subject: Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System >> >> Today is the 90th anniversary of the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System's first broadcast. >> >> Back then, that meant radio. Today's CBS Corporation is shedding its radio arm in a merger with Pennsylvania based Entercom. >> >> It's a complicated business "dance" that takes 300 pages to describe in SEC filings. >> >> http://www.insideradio.com/free/entercom-reveals-step-by-step-details-of-merger-with-cbs/article_08d9feb8-201c-11e7-a770-278ebffd1579.html >> >> 10 years from now, will CBS radio hold a 100th anniversary celebration? >> >> And will CBS television try to assert that it is 100 years old? >> >> CBS television's first broadcast was July 1st of 1941. >> >> You can read more about the companies'business and broadcast history here... >> >> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS >> >> ... Including its growth from a 16 station chain founded by a New York talent agent, purchase by The manufacturer of Columbia Records and Columbia Phonographs, and how William S. Paley became a controlling owner and grew the company into a major broadcast entity. >> >> Along the way, the company has had involvement with program production, equipment development and manufacturing (CBS Labs, HyTron,) and publishing. >> >> It's had a variety of controlling ownership, including William S Paley, who brought Paramont pictures into a 49% ownership position, and then built the radio network into a powerhouse that enabled Columbia to buy back the stock from Paramount. >> >> CBS's history is an interesting read. >> >> Happy 90th Anniversary. We may not get to wish you ?. >> >> We now return you to your regularly scheduled activity. >> >> Ted >> >> Ted Langdell >> Secretary, Quad Videotape Group >> Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com >> (530)301-2931 >> >> Dictated into and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely responsible for any weird stuff I didn't catch. >> > > > ______________________________________________ > Please trim posts to relevant info when replying. > > Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > > Send QuadList list posts to QuadList at quadvideotapegroup.com > Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here: > http://quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shayke888 at gmail.com Tue Sep 19 16:07:24 2017 From: shayke888 at gmail.com (Shai Drori) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:07:24 +0300 Subject: Quad deck in Israel Message-ID: After a few months on the high seas and still having some teething problems I am happy to announce that another quad deck is getting to see action. Israel hasn't had a quad deck runnig in decades and now I have one VR1200 sitting right next to the VPR-3. And so to all my Jewish friends on the list, a very happy New Year. Shana Tova everyone. ?????, ?? ?????. 0544-470-420 ????? ?????? ????????? ?? ????? ????? ????? 8-35?? Cheers Shai Drori Expert digitization services for Audio Video 3K scanning for film 8mm-35mm Timeless Recordings Music Label www.audiovideofilm.com shayke888 at gmail.com Tripadvisor level 5 contributor, level 10 restaurant expert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com Tue Sep 19 23:10:06 2017 From: Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com (Ted Langdell) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 21:10:06 -0700 Subject: Quad deck in Israel Message-ID: Hi, Shai, Congratulations on your VR-1200's safe journey across the pond and sea. Glad to hear the teething problems are bygones. Hope you are able to do well with that new addition. You join QuadList member Joav Shedema I Tel Aviv with Ampex Quads in Israel. Congratulations, again. Shana Tova to you and yours, and I hope you can blow your horn again about some of your first transfers. Pictures, too. Ted Ted Langdell Secretary, Quad Videotape Group Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com (530)301-2931 Dictated into and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely responsible for any weird stuff I didn't catch. > On Sep 19, 2017, at 2:07 PM, Shai Drori wrote: > > After a few months on the high seas and still having some teething problems I am happy to announce that another quad deck is getting to see action. Israel hasn't had a quad deck runnig in decades and now I have one VR1200 sitting right next to the VPR-3. > > And so to all my Jewish friends on the list, a very happy New Year. Shana Tova everyone. > ?????, > ?? ?????. 0544-470-420 > ????? ?????? ????????? ?? ????? ????? ????? 8-35?? > Cheers > Shai Drori > Expert digitization services for Audio Video > 3K scanning for film 8mm-35mm > Timeless Recordings Music Label > www.audiovideofilm.com > shayke888 at gmail.com > Tripadvisor level 5 contributor, level 10 restaurant expert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dennyd1 at verizon.net Wed Sep 20 10:51:11 2017 From: dennyd1 at verizon.net (Dennis Degan) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:51:11 -0400 Subject: [QuadList] Quad deck in Israel In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4008812F-0DE8-40F1-BB3D-D05DD852ACD3@verizon.net> On Sep 19, 2017, at 5:07 PM, Shai Drori wrote: > After a few months on the high seas and still having some teething problems I am happy to announce that another quad deck is getting to see action. Israel hasn't had a quad deck runnig in decades and now I have one VR1200 sitting right next to the VPR-3. > > And so to all my Jewish friends on the list, a very happy New Year. Shana Tova everyone. I say: Great! Now let?s see some pictures of it! ;) Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank NBC Today Show, New York -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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