Lew Hartswick wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

BTW, 'Teleprompter' is a tradmark.


OK What is the generic term or are they the only one
in the business?
...lew...


There was at least one other company, but the 'talking heads' still
called them a teleprompter, because of their limited neurons. they
couldn't be bother with learning anything about the equipment or people
who put their faces into people's homes.

I haven't seen one in almost 20 years now, and haven't kept up on the
TV broadcast business. You could ask on
news:sci.engr.television.broadcast if you're really interested. The
last station I built didn't have any studio equipment in place when I
finished installing their transmitter. That was Ch 58, in Destin,
Florida. The call letters at that time were WRMX, for "Wendal Rowan
Ministries". It was a 1952 RCA TTU-25B transmitter, built with lots of
aluminum, stainless and chrome. 2" copper pipe for the cooling system,
and a huge water chiller with a 480 Volt, 3 Phase motor. Old Fairbanks
Morse cooling pumps to circulate the water, and some nice 30A 10 KV
armored cable that ran from the plate transformers to the thyratron
cabinet.


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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida