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Question for the brain trust. How well did the CBS Chromacoder work with the old CBS Field Sequential color cameras? Was it reliable? I did edit the earlier post. And yes, NBC heavily did subsidize color broadcasting to sell Color TV sets.
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Here's a link to an earlier Chromacoder thread on VK in 2009: http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=236288
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Because of ABC's particular situation, they were anywhere and everywhere with color equipment. As far as film chains go, I know their Television Center in Hollywood had mostly RCA TK-26's, with a few 27's strewn in there. They had an outpost in Union City, NJ, to run film-based shows and network movies and microwave them to New York to circumvent an exhibition tax in place in NYC at the time; that facility had GE PE-24's. When their Television Center at 7 West 66th Street in New York equipped with color, they did so with RCA TK-27's (by 1980, some added TK-28's into the mix). Even their studio cameras - the last RCA TK-41C's ever made at the start, some Norelco PC-60's, a lot of PC-70's, GE PE-250's and 350's . . . their local stations were also all over the place, with (as of 1967): - WABC-TV, KABC-TV - Norelco PC-70's - WBKB (became WLS-TV in 1968) - GE PE-250's - WXYZ-TV, KGO-TV - RCA TK-42's (the latter replaced c.1969 with GE PE-350's, the former by 1973-74 with RCA TK-45A's) I was surprised to read in a 1968 BM/E article that WNEW-TV in New York had GE 4-V film chains (presumably PE-24's put into service in 1965 to show color films, ads and cartoons), of which they had three, as opposed to seven B&W film chains from Sarkes Tarzian. I had been in touch on a message board devoted to New York radio with a former program manager for the station who suggested they also had RCA TK-27's; presumably they were purchased to replace some or all of the ST B&W chains? Of course, their color cameras, from 1966 to 1977, were Norelco PC-70's. WOR-TV as of 1968 was equipped with GE PE-250 studio cameras, and four RCA TK-27 chains (two of which had been ordered and delivered some three years before). Looking at old YouTube clips of local TV stations in terms of film and slide replications, can anyone spot whether the chain was GE or RCA? |
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NBC affiliate, WTMJ-TV channel 4 in Milwaukee from which I hale from 1946 through 1980, used RCA film chain equipment. The station was the third in the nation to originate local live color telecasting.
These two articles may be of interest. https://visions4netjournal.com/wp-co...F-part-one.pdf https://visions4netjournal.com/wp-co...F-Part-Two.pdf
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CBS ..golf and color broadcasting
An interesting article on how the first US Masters Golf came to be broadcast in color 1966.
Not the result of some long thought about CBS strategy but more a power play between CBS and Clifford Roberts, the Augusta National's Club Chairman .... https://golf.com/news/masters-color-tv-broadcast-story/ History turns on personalities ...
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A conical antenna was a popular and efficiently simple antenna used in the fifties. It derived from the early days of VHF reception in the 1930's and originally consisted of a dipole antenna with large solid metal cones. It was later simplified to form a cone using three protruding elements per cone with a reflector element added to the rear. |
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