Wow. Exactly what I did. Running Quad machines, keeping transmitter logs, running levels and got out with an EE degree. It was funny. When the Chief Engineer's job became available - NOBODY wanted it.

@@Trainwreck144what?! Who wouldn’t want to be on call 24/7 because headphones don’t work or the transmitter is iced up?

What’s crazy to me is I bought a R0decaster Pro (1st Gen) and ATEM Mini Pro - both used off eBay for about $500 delivered. Between the two it never ceases to amaze me how much i can do with it. In ‘96, KSNF had a VidiFont, Grass Valley 200, mono sound board, and some effects machine (for growing, shrinking , squeezing video) that I think was based off a 80286 processor.

We got a digital commercial playback system in 1996 (KSNF Joplin) to replace the 3/4” U-Matics. For the most part it worked very well, but I walked in one morning on a Saturday ( a roommate had gotten a job there) and he had left a beeping alarm go off for hours. I think a SCSI drive had malfunctioned. I remember it being five 9 GB hard drives which were considered huge for the time. Now you can get a 1.5 Terrabyte micro SD.

What happened to the machines after 1994 ?

@@vcrguy1686 The station kept the tr600 and one 1200, otherwise an odetics system was installed to replace the tcr100's

Just the threading aspect alone seems like it would’ve made sense to “upgrade” to a (checks notes) 15-year old format (U-Matic)

Its easy when you dont care about quality

Still cheaper on the owner to not buy half a million worth of new beta equipment. And not train new ppl.

The kid is proly the president of the network now.

we rebuilt our last quad head in 2000 it was $695 ,i worked for this guys sister station in Washington we did the same thing with the quads head lit our engineers didn't mind as long as you could master load lit heads the chiefs they ran master control budget labor etc and the quicker you did your dub reels the more they saved on payroll this shift usually signed on the station too and they had to make the 2inch dub reels for muti market playback since we both only had 5 machines for commercial playback we had 4 that worked they had 5 it was a minimum wage job to all the haters saying i wouldn't hire this guy blah blah i would throw him out by his neck etc .you get a guy this good for 3.90 a hour at your shop back then ... i bet you paid 10-15 dollars a hour at this time and a more trained guy could be hired but this stations and the sister station engineers taught us all how to do it and we looked good we even color balanced and registered the PC70s we used at this time for our news. me and him at this time would walk into your plant at this time and challenge your best quad operators to a dub tape challenge and you have one hour to fill your 60min tape at and at 75 min min we would having a soda and done your guys would still be arguing over if the color bars laid down were to hot and you have 30 min laid down dubbed and when we played back both tapes to a independent viewer and have them pick the pro dubbers or the kids tapes they wouldn't be able to tell except one tape had more spots on it.

Nickgttv: You are so right, during my time at TV 41, in Battle Creek, we had many nights like that, we had to build a lot of spots on one tape, for the next day's broadcast for news time. I remember having to do it every now and then, but we had plenty of Engineers that did it to they were very fast, and did it just as well, so you're spot-on, this guy in this video is my hero, he is an excellent engineer in building those spots on one machine. He was using three machines to build up his master reel, but we had at our station, only two machines, to work with, the 3rd machine was building the master tape with the spots on it. Watching this young man do that with three machines, was an awesome video to watch him do his magic.

Awww 40 years how cute. You must have worked for a cable outfit. Since you are completely unaware of my background, you have some nerve criticizing people. Unlike you, I was in the NYC market, worked for one of the pioneers of television broadcasting at 19 nominated for am Emmy for quad editing. Being nominated by your peers as being one of the best, I can say with full confidence that you simple have no idea of what you are talking about. When time is money, keeping those machine running at peek performance requires care of the machines which clearly he does not have. I could line up a machine in 7 seconds and have done it many times when needed. The station can get fined if video it audio was out of spec, so it was important that every aspect of the broadcast signal was within spec. Clearly, you being a cable outfit would not have to worry about quality. And I can tell you that if this kid was to ever treat our machines like he does here, he would be escorted out of the building. When the ACR came out we would make sure we had all the carts ready for the next days broadcast. I would dub the carts for the next day WHILE we were in a show segment, this way by end of broadcast day, all the work had been done. I have worked on EVERY machine AMPEX ever made. And was an editor at the largest post facility on the east coast. Sorry, but your cute 40 yrs dont cut it. I was doing this before you were born

I worked on 1000 and 2000B back in the 70s and 80s . I did some time with ACR25..we did proper line ups and cleaning for every tape on the 2000B.

Listen to the spot repeat the same sentence over again

ATSC Standard A/53, which implemented the system developed by the Grand Alliance, was published in 1995; the standard was adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in the United States in 1996. It was revised in 2009. ATSC Standard A/72 was approved in 2008 and introduces H.264/AVC video coding to the ATSC system.