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Tanner Co. 34 TV Programming & Production For Profit WNJU, Ch. 47: Reaching the Spanish core of the Big Apple Computer assisted editing has taken a giant leap forward in 1978. The new systems offer total creative control and simplified 40 Audio Production: Program Backup and Profit Maker operation. Commercial production is becoming a profitable sideline for many stations 47 Those New Super Editors Wide range of editing devices is ushering in a new era in TV post production 60 Intelligent Switchers Offer New Power in Post Production And Production Grass Valley's E-MEM system offers "learn mode" for switcher interface 65 Solving AM Bandwidth Problems Understanding the standards and solving the problems BROADBAND INFORMATION SERVICES, INC. 80 Nets Provide Superb ENG Coverage of Sadat in Israel 295 Madison Ave. Remarkable overseas operation did the job with just two days' notice New York, N.Y. 10017 212-685-5320 86 The Pocket Calculator and the D.A. Part 3 of a series on the use of the programmable calculator in broadcast Editor James A. Lippke engineering Managing Editor 96 TV/Computer: Teaches, Tests David Hawthorne Two-way interactive TV system proves effective Senior Editor Robin Lanier Associate Editor James D. Uchniat 100 FCC Rules and Regulations FCC grants waiver of ascertainment rules to a small community licensee Creative Director Gus Sauter 102 Speak Out: Ben Bauer Defends SQ Quadraphony Manager Publication Services 104 Broadcast Equipment Djuna Zellmer BM/E's survey of new products Production Manager Daryl Winer Editorial/Production Assistant Eva J. Blinder Comptroller Joseph W. Kutner Reader Service Aetna Dowst 11,A8P BM E BROADCAST MANAGEMENT ENGINEERING is published monthly by Broadband Information FCC Counsel El PAServices IncAll notices pertaining to undeliverable mail or subscriptions should be addressed to 295 Pittman Lovett Ford Madison Ave New York. N Y I0017 BM E is circulated without charge to those responsible for station operation and for specifying and authorizing the purchase of equipment used in broadcast facilities These facilities and Hennessey include AM. FM and TV broadcast stations. CATV systems. ETV stations. networks and studios. audio and video recording studios. consultants. etc Subscription prices to others 518 00 one year. 528 00 two years Foreign 524.00 one Publisher year 538 00 two years Foreign Ail Mail additional S30 00 Copyright1978 by Broadband Information Services. Inc Charles C. Lenz. Jr. New York City Controlled circulation postage paid at East Stroudsburg PA 4 JUNE, 1978-BM/E PERFECT PACKAGE Tie the world's most successful production switcher* to DVE (Digital Video Effects) and E-MEM (Effects Memory), and you have the most powerful teleproduction package available today. THE GRASS VALLEY GROUP, INC. A If K "RON I XCC).,11' A N Y More than SEVEN HUNDRED 4419 Van Nuys Blvd, Ste 307 1644 Cir, NE 810 W Bristol Street Station Plaza East 2639 Walnut Hill Lr, Ste143 1600 Series systems SHERMAN OAKS, CA 91403 ATLANTA, GA 30329 ELKHART, IN 46514 GREAT NECK, NY 11021 DALLAS, TX 75229 have been sold! (213) 990-6172 (4041 321-4318 (219) 264-0931 (516) 487-1311 (214) 358-4229 BROADCAST INDUSTRY $14 Million In HEW Grants NAB Says CATV Systems disasters and other emergencies. To Radio And TV Stations Should Continue To Carry NAB said that cable systems are natural monopolies and must not be New grants totalling $14 million have Local Signals permitted to use this position to fore- been awarded throughout the country NAB has filed comments urging the close competition from local stations by HEW's Office of Education to help FCC to continue to require cable televi- with their own program services. Not- local communities establish, improve sion systems to carry all local broadcast ing that the Commission has considered or expand noncommercial public radio signals and to consider waivers only on carriage of distant signals, in lieu of and television stations. The grants went a case -by -case basis. NAB also asked local signals, inherently anticompeti- to 47 television and 52 radio stations in that the FCC maintain the present prior- tive, NAB said it is even more anticom- 37 states, the District of Columbia and ity for local carriage over distant signals petitive if the system deletes a local Puerto Rico. and cable origination and access ser- signal in order to place its own program Seven of the television grants will be vice. service on the system. Furthermore, if used to establish new stations to serve In the filing, the Association said that only one of several local channels is people who now have no access to pub- "permitting cable systems to forego deleted, that station is placed at an un- lic television. The remaining 40 TV carriage of broadcast stations within fair disadvantage. awards will help stations expand power their local service areas would under- With regard to cable systems that are to reach a larger population, provide mine and ultimately destroy the concept saturated by the carriage of local signals color capacity and otherwise improve and reality of local service demanded and therefore unable to carry all re- operating equipment and output. by the public, envisioned by Congress quired signals, NAB believes that the Eight of the radio grants will be used and the Commission, and engendered present practice of granting waivers on to begin new stations, seven of which by the table of allocations." NAB a case -by -case basis should be retained. will bring public radio to people for the pointed out that the benefits of local NAB suggested that the problem here is first time. The remaining 45 grants will service are "real and substantial" and not an over -abundance of local signals, be used to buy broadcast equipment to are essential to maintenance of life and but the lack of capacity of some cable improve and expand services. property during severe weather, natural systems. This could be solved by in- creasing capacities. A waiver would be required only where cable systems Duca-Richardson could demonstrate their financial ina- Becomes Ampex bility to comply with the rules. Subsidiary In further support of cable regula- Ampex Corporation has announced tion, NAB introduced the results of a the acquisition of Duca-Richardson study on the economic relationship be- Corporation of Wheat Ridge, Col- tween broadcasting and cable televi- orado, a manufacturer of electronic sion. The study was conducted by switching systems for the broadcast Wharton, EFA, Inc., Philadelphia. industry. Arthur H. Hausman, presi- The most significant findings of the re- dent and chief executive officer of Am- port, according to NAB, were that pex, said the acquisition "is in line with the company's previously announced liberalization or elimination of distant plan to move into new areas of signal limitations would devastate in- technology that are a logical extension dependent station audiences and sub- of Ampex's current capabilities .