WGN new color studio - 1961
Broadcast News December 1961
WGN's new "Color House" (8.6 MB pdf file) http://www.bretl.com/tvarticles/bnde...wsdec61wgn.pdf |
Get a load of Bozo. No wonder so many little kids are scared of clowns.
Phil Nelson |
Curious about a few things:
a) At what point did WGN replace its TK-41's with more modern TK-44A/B class cameras (and, later, TK-45A)? b) How long did the TK-26 chains at WGN last, and what color chains (I presume TK-27 or 28) replaced them and when? Contrast this with their New York sister station WPIX (Channel 11), which didn't go color until 1965 (the first New York indie commercial station to air anything in color - at first, solely via film and slides with RCA TK-26's - was WOR-TV [Channel 9], beginning in 1960; but that station was the last to have all local origination in color, in late 1967). |
Nice piece of history there. WGN is still operating out of that same studio at 2501 W Bradley Place.
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I love the design of this building for being logical and pretty instead of the ornately garish stuff they glue on most modern stuff. The new buildings with purposeless stuff glued all over reminds me of those haunted looking buildings from the 1800's an up with gargoyles, etc only alot cheaper looking.
I was pleased to see the building looks exactly the same today. Logical beautiful buildings like that are against the law to preserve where I live... seems that way. |
I remember watch Wgn channel 9, and although it took a big yagi antenna to pick them up in South Bend, the color was excellent
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WPIX and color in the fall of '65 seems right, since they were the latecomer in the NY market. I recall their first colorcasts were the syndicated Bozo show and the color episodes of Superman.
WNEW's first colorcasts were Tomato Juice commercials and The Virginian on Movie Greats around that time also. |
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Interesting that I did not see any mention of their video tape equipment. I see this was an RCA story on WGN. I wonder if WGN was using Ampex video tape equipment, hence the absence of any mention about their tape equipment.
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A few notes:
The Chicago Symphony broadcasts were done as remotes from Medinah Temple. The antenna mast on the Prudential building expanded on the sunny side and tilted away from the sun, gradually changing the radiation pattern during sunny days. WGN had a history of producing car commercials, including even remotes (black and white) from a Ford dealer (Courtesy Motors). Hence the installation of a turntable to support their commercial production. |
I wondered the same about their video tape I bet you are correct they must have been an Ampex house.
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Seems logical assumption since they had to use videotape often and RCA prolly made them not mention it
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The posts are correct... WGN had Ampex 2000's. (They also had an HS 200 for commercial production.)
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