Color Comes To Atlanta…1965
On April 6, 2013
- TV History
Color Comes To Atlanta…1965
This is five of the six Norelco PC60s that arrived at WAGA (then CBS) in late 1966 which replaced their Marconi Mark IVs. WSB (then NBC) was first with local color in 65 and had the RCA TK42s, but by 69, they too went to the Norelcos. Before color, WSB had TK60s. WXIA (then WAII and ABC) bought TK42s in 66 replacing their RCA TK11s. When I was in college at The University Of Georgia, we used the TK60s and TK42s WSB had donated in 1970.
Two triax cable??
I’ve been told by an engineer that worked WAGA at the time that they actually never had a camera number 1 back then. They wanted the camera numbers to match the switcher crosspoints. Since black was crosspoint 1, the first camera was 2. They built their own switcher which was the first to make the switch in the vertical interval without seeing a glitch. They used knobs instead of fader bars. True story. Waga also built their own video DA’s among other things.
Hey, I remember those big cluncky B/W rolling monsters in the TV sudio in the CJ Building at UGA. We’re not that old are we? Truck left!
Look at those BRAND NEW color cameras!! How well I remember with the big clunky cables!! WLW-T in Cincinnati had them before WSB. Can remember the first color Cincinnati Reds baseball game at the old Crosley field & later Riverfront!! Good days—Great memories