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Philadelphia SMPTE Meeting Notice
Guests and
Non-members welcome
Date:
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
6:30pm – Refreshments (courtesy Harris)
7:00pm – Presentations
Admission
Fee:
No charge
Location:
CBS-3 (KYW, WPSG) www.cbs3.com
1555 Hamilton Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
215-977-5300
Host:
Rich Paleski –
CBS-3
Presentation:
Special Meeting on Philadelphia TV
Nostalgia
Be sure to mark your
calendars for a very special Philadelphia SMPTE
meeting on December 14, 2010, when the topic will
be Philadelphia Television Nostalgia from the late
1940s to 1980, with just a little radio thrown in. While subject to change, here
is what is currently planned.
WCAU - Hank Schorle, former Assistant Director of
Operations and Engineering, will tell us about
lining up image orthicon cameras in the late
1940s, covering early football games, and Action
in the Afternoon (a live western).
Dave Harvey, Former Director of Operations and
Engineering, will describe the station’s early
adventures with ENG in 1972. Jane Norman, who
starred as Pixanne, will describe how she flew,
various production issues, and present video of
the famous “Ring of Fire” and bloopers.
KYW – Tom Lamaine, long time Channel 3 personality
and weatherman will tell us some TV production
stories plus a little about his early radio days
at WIP. John Bostwick will speak about
WPTZ/WRCV/KYW and show some of his photos.
WHYY – Bill Weber, WHYY Vice President and CTO
will discuss the station’s installations at Walnut
Street in the former WCAU building in 1954; their
move to color in 1964 at 46th & Market Street
(the former WFIL & American Bandstand site),
and finally to their present location on
Independence Mall in 1979, within the former
Living History Center. In the late 1990s they
totally rebuilt the facility on top of itself.
Slide Shows – Prior to the meeting and during the
tour period afterwards, we will run
a captioned slide show of some old facilities,
including WCAU-TV in the 1960s and WFLN-AM &
FM in the 1950s. The
photos were taken and recently digitized by Warren
Wilson and color corrected by Gordon Laubach.
Special Technology Exhibit – A working model of a
very exciting and early pioneering television
technology you do not want to miss. Also, we have
been promised what might have been the very first
"Set-Top-Box".
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PLEASE RSVP
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To
help us plan for refreshments and seating, let
us know if you’re
coming to the meeting. Please RSVP your
attendance in advance to
stadzyn@xxxxxxx
with
the names of those attending, your contact
info,
and your affiliation no later than Friday,
December 10th.
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Parking:
To be announced soon.
Map:
http://tinyurl.com/cbs3philly
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