Rca Tk-41

[W.B.]

Originally Posted by W.B.

I also have an amendment to make: A broadcast veteran who worked at WOR-TV as a summer relief behind-the-scenes'er (mainly a cameraman) from 1966 to 1971 noted that in terms of telecine, it was RCA all the way. Prior to 1968, the station's telecine and master control were at the Empire State Building (the same place from which King Kong fell to his doom ), and the equipment there included TK-26 color and TK-21 monochrome film chains. (Their studios and videotape facilities then were at 1440 Broadway.) After Channel 9 consolidated their studios, VT facilities, telecine and master control under one roof at 1481 Broadway (in what used to house NTA Telestudios) in 1968, the station upgraded its telecine to RCA TK-27's - thus all three commercial indie stations in NYC used TK-27 film chains. (Apparently, GE's claims of WOR using PE-24's in their ads was wishful thinking on that company's part.)

This same veteran mentioned that WNEW-TV (where he also worked) had TK-27's.

Apparently, WNEW-TV's TK-27's came after 1970, as according to an August 1968 issue of BM/E magazine (as on the World Radio History site), Channel 5 had in their telecine department three 4-V General Electric color film chains (presumably PE-24, as they started broadcasting in limited color in 1965 via film, slides and tape) and seven B&W Sarkes Tarzian film chain cameras. Naturally their slide projectors were RCA TP-7's, their 16mm projectors a mixture of TP-6's and TP-66's. They ordered additional RCA equipment in 1977; TK-46 studio cameras were definitely among them, probably TK-28 chains as well.

And WOR - when they moved to 1481 in '68, they already had two TK-27's - and once settled there, ended up with four of that model.