[BC] RE: delays of radio & TV programs (old timer question)

[Chuck Lakaytis]

In the late seventies, Alaska broadcasters had a dubbing facility near
SeaTac Airport.  The news came to Alaska a day late, if the planes were
flying.  All other programming was usually a week or two delayed.  Sometimes
episodes did not arrive so you never found out how a certain show
progressed.

Satellite transmission was a great improvement.  The cable companies used to
have at least a little studio in each town.  When the cable company in
Ketchikan got rid of the local programming they dumped everything in a
dumpster.  I salvaged 3 RCS 44DX mics and got about 25 lighting instruments
for my wife's theater.

On the other hand, cable tv just killed local community organizations.
Ketchikan used to have a huge bridge club and other sorts of things.  That
all went away when our passive couch potato culture took over.

We have a real problem recruiting managers for our bush communities.  Folks
find it hard to entertain themselves.

Chuck Lakaytis
CML Broadcast
Anchorage, AK 


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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Brent Hall 
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 5:11 PM
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Subject: [BC] RE: delays of radio & TV programs (old timer question)

When I worked at KING-TV Seattle in 1972 we recorded the NBC Nightly News on
Quad tape daily for overnight Railway Express shipment (before FED-X and UPS
existed) to Anchorage. The Alaska and Hawaii stations always got national
news a day late. When I worked at KPNX-TV Phoenix in 1973, network delays
were 2 hours since Arizona doesn't have DST. Both KING and KPNX had
overnight dub shifts that I worked on to built the money reel. With only 4
quad machines in the station, they had to be available for net delay and
post production during the day. If a machine ever broke down, post
production was toast for that day. Most stations had a full time guy just
assigned to quad machine and film chain maintenance.
 
-Brent

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