Facilities of WCVB-TV, Boston

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Publisher: SMPTE
Doc Type: Journal Article
Article Type: research-article
Abstract: The requirements that determined equipment specifications and physical plant layout for a television station dedicated to an uncommonly large amount of locally-produced programing are set forth. Equipment selection, installation, and building preparation took nine months and within about fifteen months the station began commercial broadcasting. The large items of equipment include two Norelco 14-kW transmitters with solid-state low-power stages and IF modulation; an RF switching unit; an RCA 5-bay butterfly antenna; five PC-100 studio cameras; a PCP-90 portable video camera; three film islands, each with two 16mm projectors and a slide projector; four Ampex AVR-1 and two Ampex 1200 tape machines; one Ampex slow-motion recorder and one Ampex 4000 electronic editing equipment; and the production control room, master control room and tech-center consoles and racks. The RF switching complex permits eleven modes of operation between the dual transmitters and the 3/2 antenna. The Central Dynamics Ltd. master control switcher is planned for on-line, real-time computer control. Otherwise it appears to be a standard preset/take switcher. Later, a computer-controlled, station-automation system will be incorporated into the present switcher which will embody a number of interconnected, job-oriented programs.
Publication Date: 1972-09-01
DOI: 10.5594/J08230
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J08230
Author(s): Leo L. Beranek, Willard H. Hauser, Eric C. Herud, Robert G. Hueffed

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Leo L. Beranek, Willard H. Hauser, Eric C. Herud, and Robert G. Hueffed; Facilities of WCVB-TV, Boston, Journal of the SMPTE ( Volume: 81, Issue: 9, September 1972); SMPTE, 1972. Available at https://doi.org/10.5594/J08230

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Leo L. Beranek, Willard H. Hauser, Eric C. Herud, and Robert G. Hueffed; Facilities of WCVB-TV, Boston, Journal of the SMPTE ( Volume: 81, Issue: 9, September 1972); SMPTE, 1972. Available at https://doi.org/10.5594/J08230

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