[Tig] OT-NBC Burbank Tape turns 50 on Saturday

[Ted Langdell]

This Saturday, April 28, 2008 is the 50th anniversary of the  
dedication of Videotape Central at NBC Burbank. The tape facility  
inside 3000 West Alameda (at Olive Ave.) cost $1.5 million.

The facility included one RCA Color Video Tape Recorder and eight  
Ampex black-and-white machines that could record color using with RCA  
Labs hetrodyne electronics.

NBC began time-zone delay from the Burbank tape facility when  
Daylight Savings Time kicked in.
Soon, three more RCA Broadcast Color Recorders were at work.

Pre-recording programs in Burbank happened later.

http://www.novia.net/~ereitan/rca-nbc_firsts.html

Happy Birthday, NBC Burbank Tape! (If there's anything left...)   
Anyone have pix from 1958?

Ted

Ted Langdell
Ted Langdell Creative Broadcast Services
Marysville, CA
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Ted Langdell
Ted Langdell Creative Broadcast Services
Marysville, CA
Main:   (530) 741-1212

tedlangdell.com. Storytelling through Broadcast Coverage and Creative  
Services since 1974

With 3GHz 4-processor MacPro powering Final Cut Studio