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Broadcast Equipment www.americanradiohistory.com OCTOBER, 1970 Vol. No. 145 RC/1 POO EGo`gcl. e4 Klwo Published by RCA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS DIVISION CONTENTS WDCA -TV: Scene of Cartridge Charisma 5 Madison Avenue Eyes the TCR -100 10 New Profits from "Off -Air" Production Facilities 16 All Girl Talk on Veracruz FM Duo 22 London Weekend Television 25 An Idea that Grew ... at WOOD -TV 30 Solid State Multiplexer for Color Film Systems 34 Improving Reliability of TV Microwave 37 Products in the News 44 Copyright 1970 RCA Corporation, All Rights Reamed www.americanradiohistory.com in the viewfinder Broadcast Systems Management Mr. Vander Dussen, as Manager of Studio Gordon Bricker, manager of Professional Restructured to Changing Equipment Engineering and Product Manage- Electronic Systems based in Burbank, Cali- fornia, joined RCA in 1952 at Camden and Customer Needs ment will have overall product responsibility for television cameras, TV tape recording during a five year tenure there held product Organizational changes planned to strengthen systems, TV switching and control apparatus management assignments in broadcast termi- RCA Broadcasting Systems to meet the de- and related studio equipment used by broad- nal and TV studio equipment. From 1957 to mands of the 70's were recently put into effect cast stations and networks. 1963 Mr. Bricker was a broadcast field sales- by A. L. Hammerschmidt, Division Vice Mr. Vander Dussen recently returned to man covering Colorado, Kansas and adjacent President. RCA after a year spent at the Massachusetts states. "RCA Broadcasting Systems' management," Institute of Technology as an Alfred P. Sloan Two key assignments in Broadcast Systems Mr. Hammerschmidt said, "is keenly aware Fellow. He received the degree of Master of remain unchanged. Edwin C. Tracy continues of its obligations to anticipate the evolving Science of Management from M.I.T., along as Division Vice President, Broadcast Sales in needs of our customers. with 51 other executives from industry, busi- the domestic market and Joseph P. Ulasewicz "In the 70's," he continued, "we see these ness, government and education who com- as Division Vice President, Commercial Com- needs taking two forms (1) constant improve- pleted the course of study. munications Systems International Operations. ment of equipments which affect on -air After joining RCA in 1957, Mr. Vander Mr. Tracy joined the company in 1939 as performance and (2) application of new tech- Dussen became a broadcast salesman and was a TV engineer for the RCA Service Company. nologies to systems that enhance the cost promoted to district sales manager. Later he In 1946 he was made sales engineer in Chi- effectiveness of the broadcasters' operations." held sales, product and engineering manage- cago. Four years later he became Field Sales Mr. Hammerschmidt brings to his post ment assignments of increasing responsibility Manager for RCA radio and television equip- more than 35 years of broadcasting experience. in various RCA Commercial Electronic Sys- ment. He was promoted to Division Vice He actually started to work in broadcasting tems activities. President in 1964. .(WBNS-Columbus) while still attending Ohio Mr. Musson is Manager of Transmitting Mr. Ulasewicz started at RCA as a Trainee State University. Equipment Engineering and Product Manage- in Manufacturing and in his career he was an He began his career at RCA as a TV Engi- ment. His product responsibilities include TV, RCA Broadcast equipment field representa- neer at NBC. His subsequent assignments in- AM -FM transmitters, antennas and broadcast tive, Manager of Antenna Merchandising and, cluded Assistant Director, Color TV Systems audio. just prior to his present assignment, Manager Development; Associate Director, Network Mr. Musson rejoined RCA in March, 1970. of International Marketing for Broadcast & Technical Operations and Vice President of Prior to that time he held a variety of posts Communications Products. Engineering and Facilities Administration. with Wickes Industries, Inc., the last being John H. Cassidy (missing from photo) con- Upon joining RCA Broadcast activity in Vice President of Planning and Development. tinues as Manager of Project Management and 1966 he was named Manager of the newly His experience includes two stints in station Administration Services. He directs a staff of created Electronic Recording Products De- operation, the last one being Chief Engineer systems implementation specialists who esti- partment. Before assuming his present duties of WJIM and WJIM -TV. mate, plan, manage and install complete he was Division Vice President of Broadcast Another move brings Professional Electronic Broadcast systems for the world market. He Engineering and Product Management. Systems into the Broadcast organization. This also manages the Custom Repair and Engi- The restructured Broadcast Systems divides class of TV equipment fulfills the lower cost neers shops. supervision of engineering and product man- requirements for a segment of the Broadcasting Mr. Cassidy joined RCA in 1956 and prior agement between Neil Vander Dussen and Industry and has special appeal to closed cir- to his present assignment was Manager of Carleton Musson. cuit, educational and industrial markets. Sales Support and Services. In conference (I. to r.) are Messrs Musson, Vander Dussen, Bricker, Hammerschmidt. ' racy and Ulasewicz. 2 www.americanradiohistory.com Traffic Flow Profile for corded on strip charts. Broadcasting's Technical Progress Delaware Memorial Bridge Police also can determine the presence or Tied to Adapting Developments Vehicles moving across the twin 2,150 -spans absence of vehicles in any of the bridge's eight In Other Areas lanes by observing a control console. Indicator of the Delaware Memorial Bridge near Wil- Broadcasting's technical progress over the lamps on the console display a continuous mington are being counted and their speed next decade may well hinge on how effectively picture of traffic and other events on the measured automatically by RCA electronic its equipment builders adapt the wealth of bridges. detection equipment installed as part of an technology being developed in other areas. advanced traffic control system. When a lamp on the display panel glows, Andrew F. Inglis, Division Vice President, recently -completed system already is it indicates that no traffic has crossed over a The RCA Commercial Electronic Systems, speak- providing bridge police with a profile of traf- selected detection point on the bridge for at ing before the Rocky Mountain Association of fic flow that enables them to regulate maxi- least 90 seconds. This could mean a traffic Broadcasters convention, said suppliers must mum speed limits and traffic lane use under stoppage and with the aid of closed circuit search out usable technical developments in varying conditions and times of day. television, the police operator can investigate such fields as defense, space and computers The 52 vehicle detectors, known as Ve -Det, and dispatch a patrol car, tow truck, ambu- where research expenditures are several times in system operate from wire loops lance or other emergency vehicles as needed. used the those in broadcast equipment. embedded in the bridge roadway at various Other control panel lamps monitor toll plaza points. A vehicle passing over the loop causes lane signals, aviation beacons atop the bridge's He reminded his listeners -broadcasters from Idaho, Montana, circuit changes, sending a signal to a roadside 440 -foot towers, and traffic lane speed limit Utah and Wyoming- detector unit. signs. Failure of a display panel lamp to light, that tapping this vast reservoir of technology along Two of the seven-foot -square wire loops, for example, will indicate a beacon light was with the industry's own efforts can not placed three feet apart on the upgrade of each burned out. in itself sustain technical progress in the of the twin bridges, detect the direction of The console also controls the illumination broadcast industry. traffic flow and the average speed of vehicles of various driver information and speed signs "This progress can be likened to a three- moving in each lane. at the approaches to each bridge. Message legged stool, the legs being technology, eco- Speed is determined by recording the time signs have 24 -inch letters reading: Slippery nomics and public policy," he said. "Major required for a vehicle to travel from one loop Roadway, Accident Obey Signal, Lane Change developments not only must be technically to another. Speeds of a number of vehicles are Obey Signals, Men Working, Fog Ahead, feasible but they must be economically sound averaged for a selected time period and the Snow, and Reduce Speed. Each sign is acti- and in accordance with public policy as de- corresponding results are automatically re- vated by a single pushbutton on the console.