WHDH Boston, The Big Move To Color

On January 15, 2014 - TV History

WHDH Boston, The Big Move

Below left is Keith Jordine of WHDH and on the right is RCA tech John Cimba making ready for the debut of their new color facilities in 1960. The videotape recorder is the RCA TRT 1B, which occupied five rack panels plus one more for color. Thanks to Maureen Carney for the photo.

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7 Comments

  1. David Kintzele January 16, 2014

    TR-70 quads at KMGH-TV, Denver. Strange that KMGH at the time was a CBS affiliate, while KOA, the NBC affiliate, used Ampex.

  2. Don Cox January 16, 2014

    Worked with one of these at KVII-TV, Amarillo, Texas, in 1965. The tube tester was always on the ready.

  3. Richard Bauer January 16, 2014

    Great stuff in those days we got excited abt ampex VR1000!

  4. David Stephan January 16, 2014

    Wow

  5. Maureen Carney January 15, 2014

    Actually the date is January 1960. Here’s another picture of the TRT 1A installation.

  6. Don Hougland January 15, 2014

    In the late ’50’s…KRGV-TV in Weslaco TX installed their RCA TRT-1 in a custom built trailer so as to go on location to tape agricultural, auto, furniture stores football games, parades in the Rio Grand Valley. The trailer backed up in the prop room to the projection room for studio work. When on location, made & aired kines on the comms. Will send Ellerbee photos… Oh..had a 5 mil head so as to air tapes from Mexico….tape speed was 7.5 inches per second.. Made a 30 min tape into an hour tape.. With a flip of a switch could chg from 15 to 7.5 ops. Fun times.

  7. David Crosthwait January 15, 2014

    The TRT 1B occupied five racks plus a sixth for color. The drum and capstan racks usually were located to the rear of the operation racks as seen here. This photo shows the transport, signal processing and control racks.