[78-L] No film at 11, was Re: Well, it's 6pm Eastern Daylight Time.. ^

[David Lennick]

Some folk are late to deal with any kind of change..the CBC was still using 16" 
transcription discs as first choice for archiving programs as late as 1967.

dl

On 5/22/2011 5:02 PM, David Breneman wrote:
>
> Here in the Seattle area, stations were using both Auricons
> and Portapacks in the late 70s.  I visited two network
> affiliates in 1977 for a report I wrote on television
> news gathering and that's what I saw.  They might have
> only started using U-matic that year. One Tacoma station
> used a "portable" Ampex/Nagra 2" VTR for sound-sync pickups
> and film for silent, but they switched to Auricons for
> sound work before they went all-video.   I think the CBS
> series "60 Minutes" was still using film for their
> segments until some time in the mid-late 80s.  They
> seemed to be the last to go to video.
> _______________________________________________
On 5/22/2011 9:19 AM, David Lennick wrote:
> The CBC in the early 80s was just beginning to convert to ENG so I'd say it
> wasn't quite that early..and they have to process all the film in "China Syndrome".
>
> dl
>
> On 5/22/2011 7:34 AM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>> Quite a number of years. I'd say since the middle to late 1970's or so.
>>
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>> ________________________________
>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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>> Sent: Sat, May 21, 2011 9:31:49 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Well, it's 6pm Eastern Daylight Time.. ^
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>> The world didn't end. No film at 11.
>>
>> (How long has it been since any news organization has actually used film?)
>>
>> dl