Word: vidifont
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...equipment: 165 people, 14 of whom?headed by Curt Gowdy and Don Meredith?will appear on home screens; twenty-one cameras, 16 of them the full-size "hard" variety, three handheld, one in a helicopter and one in the Goodyear blimp; five slow-motion "discs" for replays, and a vidifont, a computer-like machine that can instantaneously cough up players' names and statistics. Add to that three miles of video cable, 3½ miles of audio cable, 65 microphones and 100 monitors, then plug everything into 15 giant trailer trucks and a specially built studio for the pre-game show...
...into the machine. CBS is willing to let IBEW technicians control the CMX 600 for editing news and documentary shows, but it wants producers and directors of entertainment programs to be free to edit without the aid of union middlemen. The IBEW is also demanding complete control of the Vidifont, a machine that flashes block letters on the TV screen through the operation of a typewriter keyboard...
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