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Rebuilt Master Control

1 October, 2001 (15:00) | Projects, TV | No comments

Here is a project that we desperately need to do for some time! Programming and monitoring for two stations was absolutely awful and inefficient from the old area that the MCO worked at. It was made from mostly plywood into a custom cabinet years prior with no room for expansion or thought regarding future [...]

KHBS-KHOG-TV Ice Storm of 2000 and 2001

10 January, 2001 (18:00) | TV | No comments

What follows is a blow-by-blow retelling by Larry Friddle (my Asst. Chief Engineer at the time) on 10 JAN 2001 of a very difficult and stressful couple of weeks where everything seemed to be going wrong and the weather was definitely set against us…
My name is Larry Friddle. I am the Assistant Chief Engineer at [...]

Updated News and Weather Sets for KHBS

21 September, 2000 (12:00) | Projects, TV | No comments

The existing news and weather sets at KHBS were in a small set adjacent to the newsroom, called studio ‘A’ and overdue for an updated look and layout since they had been in use for over 10 years. The new sets were built in the ‘studio next door’, studio ‘B’. Most of that studio was [...]

The Media Pool

31 December, 1999 (14:00) | Projects, TV | No comments

When I arrived to the KHBS/KHOG TV market in 1998 the tertiary station KHOG in Fayetteville was running its locally sold spots by manually breaking away from the programming they were receiving from KHBS. The Master Control Operator on duty would change a crosspoint on their router and then manually trigger a series of spots [...]

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