Broadcasting Telecasting (Jul-Sep 1959)

EQUIPMENT & ENGINEERING 'REVOLUTIONARY' Reeves, RCA develop new tv tape facility A new electronic method of assembling a tv production or commercial on video tape was announced jointly Thursday (July 30) by Reeves Sound Studios Inc., New York, and RCA. Representatives of the two companies described their newly developed method of electronically editing sounds and scenes from previously recorded tape as "revolutionary." To be ready to provide the tape editing service by early winter, Hazard E. Reeves, president of the sound studios, said, the Reeves firm has contracted for purchase from RCA of a battery of eight tv tape recorders, including two color units and related equipment. The tape facility at Reeves studios will also include one color and two monochrome live cameras, one monochrome and one color film chain with 16 mm. and 35 mm. projectors and slide projector, three electronic editing rooms and a master control room. Uses of the tv tape technique are evident in the purposes of the equipment to be installed: The tape machines are used as playback machines to provide picture sources as well as recording machines to record the finished product. The live and film cameras provide additional picture and sound sources for integration with taped material. The editing rooms or mixing rooms contain the new RCA transistorized switching system, which switches from picture to picture in onemillionth of a second, and associated with the switchers will be dissolve and effects amplifiers for picture mixing. All tape machines, live and film camera chains and picture sources from outside of the building will be connected as the input picture to each of the switchers in the editing rooms. Sound sources will similarly be connected to audio consoles in each editing room. Monitors will allow the directors and editors to view the picture inputs and final picture. The output of the editing rooms will be connected to tv tape machines for recording the edited pictures. The master control room will be a switching and monitoring point to interconnect major elements of the system, to check on quality of performance standards and to control the video operation of the live and film camera chains. • Technical topics • Admiral Corp. for the first half of 1959 listed consolidated sales of $90, Talking tape • Reeves Soundcraft Corp., Danbury, Conn., manufacturer of magnetic recording tape has been admitted to trading on the American Stock Exchange, where 3,800 shares were sold at an opening price of 10%. Discussing ticker tape and video tape are (1 to r) : James Dyer, chairman of board of governors of the American Stock Exchange; Hazard E. Reeves, president of Soundcraft, and Frank B. Rogers Jr., executive vice president of Soundcraft. 894,700 as against $77,038,648 a year ago — an 18% increase. Earnings before taxes were $2,739,761 compared with $117,989 and after taxes $1,361,418 against a loss of $407,180 for the same period in 1958. Current earnings amount to 57 cents per share on 2,389,246 shares outstanding, compared with a loss of 17 cents a share. The report was released July 29. • Sylvania Electric Products Inc., N.Y., has established a new organization called Sylvania Electro-Specialties to market closed-circuit tv cameras and related equipment. The new department will be headed by Bernard O. Holsinger, director of marketing. Initial activities will be concentrated on a lowcost camera now in pilot production, with other products to be added as they are developed. • Dage Television Div., Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc., Michigan City, Ind., has introduced Model ETS-1, a completely mobile closed-circuit tv system for classroom use. The company says that the "tv studio on wheels" includes a Dage 700 line resolution camera and console with video monitors, camera control, sync generator, power supply and wave form monitor. ETS-1 allows for such gear as film projector controls, audio and video switching-mixing and a spare generator to be added. Prices start at $11,800. YOUR SALES MESSAGE HITS THE 50,000 TV HOMES covered by KMSO-channel 13 THINGS BEGIN TO HAPPEN IN WESTERN MONTANA BECAUSE . . . KMSO programs the best of all 3 networks . . . plus VIP treatment for ALL commercials. and that goes for KGVO RADIO TOO CBS — ABC — NBC ask FORJOE or KMSO-KGVO — MISSOULA, MONT. CRC Salutes THE DYNAMIC STAR STATIONS KISN (Portland) KOIL (Omaha) KICN (Denver) Upon their recent purchase of several CRC station jingle series for each of their markets COMMERCIAL RECORDING P.O. BOX 6726 DALLAS 19, TEXAS PHONE Rl 8-8004 TOM MERRIMAN president BOB FARRAR vice president DICK MORRISON general sales manager BROADCASTING, August 3, 1959 85