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Old 09-14-2005, 12:46 PM
swanson
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Tv stations or broadcasting facilities will quite often hold onto old equipment and run it into the ground because management does not want to spend
money on new equipment.There are certain areas where you need the
latest modern equipment,such as cameras and the color monitors that
are needed to set up or "chip" the cameras.These are the areas where you
will find modern equipment.In less critical areas of the facility you will find
the older equipment still chugging along.We still have alot of the Conrac
SNA series B&W monitors running.These are a transistor design going back
to 1974.No one makes crt's for these anymore,so we send out the old ones
to Scotty at Hawkeye to have them rebuilt.The plan is to eventually replace
all of these with Sony or Ikegami LCD monitors,but that will cost money.
It is rumored that yearly bonuses given to CBS management will be bigger if they spend minimal money.So of course they are going to do anything they
can to hardly spend any money.I'm sure this is how it is at other big
companies too.
Regards,
Swanson
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