KWEX TV Remote Box
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Object Details
- Sony Corporation
- Description
- The Sony Corporation manufactured this U-matic S model VO-3800 portable videocassette remote recorder around 1974. The U-Matic was a ¾-inch tape that replaced the heavy and hard-to-process 16mm film used in the news field previously. The portable recorder connected to a shoulder camera, worn on an over-the-shoulder strap. Although the unit weighed forty pounds, it freed reporters from the studio, allowing them to do more stories on location.
- Cameraman and reporter Andreas Morin used this recording unit when he worked at KWEX-TV in San Antonio, Texas during the 1970s. The station operated on such a tight budget, that reporters like Morin often had to reuse the tape multiple times, recording over earlier programs.
- KWEX-TV traces its roots to KCOR-TV, founded in 1954-1955 by Raoul A. Cortez. It was the first Latino-owned, all-Spanish television station in the continental United States. Struggling for financial support, the station was sold in 1961 to Cortez's son-in-law Emilio Nicolas and a group of investors. It became KWEX, the base of operations for the Spanish International Network (SIN). The network would eventually become Univision after a subsequent sale in the 1980s.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Univision Communications, Inc.
- 1970s
- ID Number
- 2015.0002.04
- serial number
- 20108
- catalog number
- 2015.0002.04
- accession number
- 2015.0002
- model number
- VO-3800
- Object Name
- remote box
- Physical Description
- metal; plastic (overall material)
- brown; black; beige (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 3/4 in x 12 in x 13 3/8 in; 17.145 cm x 30.48 cm x 33.9725 cm
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- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Cultures & Communities
- KCOR Radio and Television
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Radio and television broadcasting
- Latino
- Record ID
- nmah_1591214
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-e5c4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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