• [SELF POST] Broke Back Mountain NBC TV Package 2005
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https://youtu.be/tjIIQp1STIM So I've taken it upon my self to dig and rebuild a bunch of old tape hardware at work and I've began digitising some of the more interesting tapes. I've decided to post a few to youtube and this is the first one. I'm not making money from this and it is in no way sponsored content. I aim to provide a simple, archival sort of format with accompanying documents present and no bullshit. This kind of stuff is modern history and should be preserved. In this specific instance my rig happens to be a frankenstein's monster of 3 broken Sony UVW-1800s into an Leitch DPS 575 before being recorded via a Blackmagic capture card.
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So was this a tape from NBC Newschannel (their affiliate news service) or an EPK sent out to some stations? It looks like a EPK package to me because it wasn't tagged within the package. Consider uploading your stuff to archive.org too. You can find some really neat tapes on there, like footage of the CNN control room when the Gulf War broke.
I'm unsure if it was from NBC directly, or just an EPK, but I have a hunch. I'd have to do more digging into the specific reporters to see for certain though. I work for an NBC affiliate station for reference. I assume it was a package sent from newschannel back in the day before we had the internet to send packages down. I base this largely off the fact it was in a cupboard full of DVCAM tapes, which would have the archive of footage used for shows back in the day. Back when you'd have 3+ tape decks queued up and running all the packages, VOs and shit that way. Also script the case contained as well, scanned image of said script being at the end of the video, which has the writing for the anchor and the complete transcript of the package. It makes me think it's an NBC package proper. It doesn't feel like a classic EPK to me but you never know. I'll try to do some digging over the week inbetween my other work and see if anything interesting comes up.
The way the script was made me think it was an EPK compared to a Newschannel production. I'm guessing, but compared to the way other networks do it like CNN Newsource, CBS Newspath, etc, almost all of them just toss in a reporter tag at the end, and this at the very start without identifying where it came from just rolls into it. I could be wrong since I haven't seen many Newschannel packages, just seemed odd though. Maybe this was via something like AP? No clue. Nevertheless, very neat you have access to a NBC stations archives. I always think about what weird and historical stuff could be dug up from any stations archives. Like KOMO in Seattle probably has all of their local broadcasts including 9/11 in 1080p HD.
True, usually the anchors and reporters write their own bits. Though I suppose in the event of a big press release / news package, it could be pre-written. Sadly it's unlikely that a lot of places have stuff in HD, though big stations in the large markets definitely do. This place for example was fully SD and using tape decks still until 2014. Broadcast TV is dying hard, only thing that saved this station was being bought by Gray Television.
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