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Posted 04/19/2008
Chuck Coleman
Here's an interesting obituary of a man who many of you owe your livelihood to but have never heard of. This man is Chuck Coleman. Chuck's contribution to the television industry was, among many others, the invention of the first practical (dare I say operating)  video timebase corrector, or TBC. For those of you production types, timebase correctors ahhh, well -- they correct timebase errors! Correcting timebase errors make the... Read More...
Posted 04/19/2008
Just to fill in an important gap in the obituary timeline.
KECA-TV (which became KABC-TV in 1953) commenced broadcasting in mid-September, 1949.  Four engineers (I was one) were transferred from radio.  Others were hired away from other local stations.  Since KECA-TV was the last owned and operated ABC station to go on the air, several supervisory employees were imported from ABC O & O’s that had been on the air for 6 to 12 months.  Charles Coleman from WBKB-TV in Chicago... Read More...
Posted 05/25/2007
Emmy Origin

It was the last one considered by the TV Academy, but it ended up being the best.After rejecting 47 proposals for what was to become the Emmy statuette, Academy members in 1948 selected a design that television engineer Louis McManus had created using his wife as a model.
The statuette of a winged woman holding an atom has since become the symbol of the TV Academy's goal of supporting... Read More...
 
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