Tale #5.
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| In Rapid City, SD one woman, Helen S. Duhamel believed in television when other community leaders tried to keep tv from coming to Rapid City. She was successful in owning the first tv station in western South Dakota. KOTA channel 3 signed on in 1955 and is still on the air. Even Bud Duhamel had nothing to do with the tv station of his wife.
At CBS conventions, she was told that wives were not welcome,only the men. I would like to see her name remembered in the history of tv.
She passed away in 1996. Her grandaughter has the nightly newscast on KOTA, Helene Duhamel after surviving cancer and showing the tv audience the results of her chemotherapy, including a bald head while reading the news.
Thank you for reading this message. Also... This story concerns the Ampex Quad video tape recorder that used 2 inch wide tape. The story was told to me by someone in Canada. This engineer was rewinding the tape, but he forgot to lock the reel down to the machine, so as it was spinning fast during the rewind mode, the reel came off the reel hub, rolled through a window, breaking the glass and going fast down a road near the tv station, all the while, leaving behind a ribbon of the 2 inch tape. I collected this story while I was gathering stories on the use of the Quad style video recorder used from 1956 to the late 1980s. It is now a obsolete format, but I would like to hear other stories of the giant Quad VTRs that are now in landfills all over the US. Thank you, |
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| Fred Lehmann lehmann@ideasign.com Fred has since started his own web page called "Dinosaurs of Electronics" with pictures of some of the old equipment we used to use and rare photos of color television during the TV coverage of JFK on Nov 22, 1963. The URL is: |
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