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08-25-2010, 10:31 PM
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In the 70's, RCA was great for taking cameras back and selling them again to lower level stations. Shortly after we went on the air in 1965, our CBS station bought a hand-me-down TK-41 from the Jack Paar show to go color for the news. It was traded in for a TK-42 in 1969 and the '41 went to a station in Argentina.
Whatta' dog that '42 was. RCA was so proud of us that they featured our station in the company RCA Broadcast News mag around our on-air date. In the photos you can see some proudly displayed 2" machines and if you look close, you can see a GE Porta Color being used as a VTR color monitor. The station engineers jeeped it up to take video to save money. And if anyone has a copy of that article on WCEE-TV, I want it. Now! One of the engineers in the photos is still one of my best friends.
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