[BC] NBC: Bye, bye, Burbank...

[Alan Kline]

It would be very interesting if NBC did some kind of "Farewell to 
Burbank" special before the Cats fire up, but for some reason I get the 
feeling that the network is more interested in forgetting its past than 
remembering. To think that that facility may become the site of another 
high-priced SoCal condo development is hard to swallow right now.

On the technical side...I have a copy of the IRE Transactions on 
Broadcasting, with an article on NBC's Burbank VTR facility--16 machines 
to do network delay in an automated fashion. Fascinating stuff...

That must have been one heckuva patch bay...I'll bet that the full-time 
guy who did the patching had dreams like the one Paul wrote about!

ak

Brent Hall wrote:
> An amazing facility. When I took a technical tour in 1981, they didn't 
> have a regular audio and video router. All routes were hand patched in 
> one location. They had a full time guy that did nothing but routing. I 
> havent' seen so many patch cords since. If you can get a technical tour 
> before the place is bulldozed, it's worth it.
> -Brent