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My first TV job: An independent station in a southern city.
Sometimes, we were amazed that the transmitter was still running at the end of the day.
When the studio to transmitter microwave link would go down, I'd run tapes out to the transmitter site, start the tapes and the engineer would switch from the stand by slide to the tape. I loved seeing stuff I copied on the air.
The station paid me to spot check features before air time. So, every night, I'd take usually 2 features home and screen them with my Pageant AV-255S built in 1959. I had a long living room-dining room, and it was a perfect 10 foot image on a smooth white wall!!
When I worked there, 90% of programming was film. 6AM to 2AM. There were two of us doing film inspections.
My boss was a photographic genius. He taught me. It sunk in. Here I am.
Thats the book.
And now, back to our regularly scheduled program, on NBC
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